Chairman of Linkage Assurance Plc, Mr. Babatunde Fatayi-Williams said the company has initiated merger talks with a reputable insurance company for the purpose of building capacity, increasing market share and providing value for its shareholders.

Our discussion on this topic will focus on key vital points an investor need to know in acquisition or disposal of a business. Generally it takes two to buy a business, a willing buyer and a willing seller, other parties to sale or purchase of a business are brokers, accountants, lawyers, valuers, financial advisors and other experts.

Nature abhors waste and so every material on earth is useful. Man can only say a material is useless when he has not found the means of converting it to something useful. Author Richard Dawkins rightly said: “Nature is a miserly accountant, grudging the pennies, watching the clock, punishing the smallest extravagance.”

Due to declining economic situations coupled with erratic power supply in the country, some Nigerians may not be too eager to embrace the compulsory insurance products which the federal government is currently trying to enforce through the National Insurance Commission (NAICOM).

The National Insurance Commission (NAICOM) is set to issue new guidelines and modalities for the insurance sector on the International Financial Reporting Standard (IFRS).

LAST week, Delta State Governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan, stormed the Bank of Industry along the Marina in Lagos. He was on a job creation drives.

Nothing better illustrates the crucial role that science must play in farming in Africa than the contrasts in agricultural productivity between our continent and the world as a whole. For while food productivity has increased globally by 140 per cent in recent decades, the figures for sub-Saharan Africa over the same period show a fall.

The Lagos State Government has reiterated its commitment to catering for the housing needs of the low income segment of the population.

As part of its global re-structuring plans aimed at focusing the telecommunications (telecoms) equipment maker on more profitable mobile broadband business, Nokia Siemens Networks has announce plans to cut 17,000 jobs, representing 23 per cent of its workforce worldwide, to save about $1.35 billion a year.

AFRICA’S leading airline, South African Airways (SAA) has appointed a Nigerian national, Ohis Ehimiaghe as the new Regional Manager: North, West and Central Africa.