As part of its corporate social responsibility, Simon Page Business School has organised a one-day training for journalists who report marketing and brands in particular and business in general. Tagged Marketing Essentials Workshop, the programme held at the institute’s office in Magodo, Lagos on Tuesday 20 September with about twenty-five print and electronic journalists in attendance.

The Nigerian Economic Summit Group (NESG), will next Tuesday in Abuja, present the report of its study into the competitiveness of micro, small and medium scale enterprises in the country.

Having successfully repositioned the Nigerian College of Aviation Technology (NCAT), Zaria, for greater efficiency since his appointment in 2007, the Rector/Chief Executive of the institution, Capt. Adebayo Araba, has assured the aviation sector and Nigerians in general that he is ready to make the school the number one training institution in Africa. In this interview with Jimoh Babatunde, Araba speaks on his achievements, challenges, prospects and other raging issues affecting the country’s aviation industry. Excerpts:

The Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Mallam Sanusi Lamido has emphasized the need for the global financial community to focus on integrating cross-border payment systems so as to allow for increase in trading across the global economy.

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is set to commence the process of demutualising the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE), as a 21 man technical committee has been inaugurated with the mandate to advise the commission on how the Exchange could be demutualised.

Before the recent hosting of former Manchester United and Republic of Ireland Captain Roy Keane and former Chelsea and French International, Marcel Desailly by Guinness Nigeria Plc in two of Nigeria’s bubbling cities-Lagos and Ibadan, the company has been yielding to the yearning of soccer loving Nigerians.

The President of the World Bank Robert Zoellick has said that corruption is a dirty business that will not sort itself out by politely and discreetly informing wrongdoers of their missteps.

The Securities and Exchange Commission, SEC, said that it is currently working to ensure that an enabling law is created that would allow it focus and develop a framework for asset securitization in the Nigerian capital market.

“Time for muddling through is over”. Robert Zoellick, World Bank President, in a speech delivered at George Washington University, recently. The Nigerian Federal Minister of Finance, our own dear (I mean that sincerely) Dr Okonjo-Iweala, must know Robert Zoellnick better than all 150 million Nigerians put together. He was her boss –until President Goodluck Jonathan took over the role of her ogapatapata.

Nigeria will next year establish a world class cement plant, Minister of Trade and Investment, Olusegun Aganga has said. Aganga told journalists in Abuja weekend during an interactive session with Commissioners of Commerce and Industry in the country that the establishment of the cement plant would not only create job opportunity for the Nigeria teeming youths, but would as well strengthen the nation’s economy.