Dr. Peter Aikpokpodion is a plant breeder with the Cocoa Research Institute of Nigeria, an expert in cocoa and the leader of the cocoa transformation team. Recently, he took time out to explain plans for the growth of cocoa in the country as the team met with chief executives of some organisations in the cocoa industry recently.

Mrs Delphine Onyinye Anusiem is the Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of React International Assure Limited, a Lagos-based outfit that is into general contracting, catering services and interior decoration. In this chat with Vanguard in Lagos recently, Mrs Anusiem, a 2005 graduate of Industrial Relations and Personnel Management from the Lagos State University, talks about her business, how it all began, the challenges of doing business in Nigeria. Excerpts

A successful businessman has a mindset that is willing to take risks and tread on places people would not ordinarily want to tread. He would not chicken out at the slightest threat, so if you intend to start and own your business, you must have a diehard mentality, otherwise you would quit before you even get started.

A group has predicted that the current high price of fuel will soon crash if the deregulation policy recently introduced in the downstream sector of the petroleum industry is retained. This was disclosed by the Jetties and Petroleum Tank Farms Owners of Nigeria [JEFTON] during a press briefing addressed by Executive Secretary of the association, Dr. Ukeje Nwokeforo.

The Nigerian Institute of Management (Chartered) has called on the Federal Government not to manage the nation into a crisis situation, as the nation is not just undergoing a crisis in the system but a crisis of the system.

The interbank money market was paralysed by the five-day strike action, causing banks to shun foreign exchange offered by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN).

Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN) has called on the Federal Government to revisit the KPMG audit report on fuel subsidy and implement it.

The Nigerian capital market operators are still seeking bailout from the Federal Government, even as the stock market is showing signs of improvement despite the five days strike embarked upon by the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) in protest of fuel hike to N141.00 from N65 per litre.

A significant improvement was recorded in transactions last week, on the secondary segment of the capital market, as the Nigerian Stock Exchange, NSE, defied the ongoing protest over the removal of subsidy on fuel prices.

In this interview, MultiChoice Nigeria’s Managing Director, Mr. John Ugbe, a graduate of the Federal University of Technology, Owerri, examines a wide range of issues related to the pay-TV industry in Nigeria, including the critical need to protect intellectual property.