Following apprehension over the more than N7 trillion loss recorded by investors in the secondary segment of the Nigerian capital market since 2007, operators in the market have called for the introduction of wide-reaching measures to salvage the market and prevent a further erosion of confidence and investment in the market.

My discussion will focus on key vital points an investor need to know about the Insurance in a Bond, an investment instrument and a product of insurance companies.

The Federal Government has been urged to set up an Aviation Manpower Development Board (AMDB), in the aviation sector of the country in order to address the growing challenge of dearth of skilled and efficient personnel facing the industry.

The Rwanda national carrier, RwandAir has began its flight operations on the Kigali-Lagos route three times a week with its new Boeing 737-800.

Head of Flight Operations of First Nation Airlines, Captain Tunde Adekoya has faulted the Federal Government’s N300 billion bailout funds pumped into the aviation industry stressing that airline operators were yet to benefit from the so-called magnanimity of the government.

CHIEF of Mission of the International Organisation for Migration, IOM, Mr. Martin Ocaga, has expressed IOM’s readiness to partner with Nigeria to facilitate a coherent migration management approach among targeted ECOWAS member-states through an assessment of national labour migration management, by promoting legal migration and preventing irregular migration through information provision.

Across the developed world, access to financial services is largely at ones’ fingertips; there is an abundance of cash and credit on demand, from multiple channels, any locations, and 24 hours a day. But, this story is very different in the developing countries like Nigeria is still high as findings have shown that the number of households without access to financial services in Nigeria remains high.

In a bid to beat the December 2012 deadline set for their transition to the International Financial Reporting Standard (IFRS), insurance companies are individually coughing out over N10 million as consultancy charge to consultants which they have engaged to assist them in their transition to the new reporting format.

Governor Babatunde Raji Fashola, last week, expressed concern over the country’s huge dependence on oil resources for its revenue generation.

Guinness Nigeria Plc, one of the foremost brewing companies and a significant player in the manufacturing sector of the Nigerian economy, has announced its official sponsorship of Carnival Calabar.