The non- availability of quality seeds to rural farmers in the country was one major issue discussed by stakeholders to the just concluded National Council on Agriculture and Rural Development meeting held in Katsina recently.

As part of its efforts to further enhance internet service from IZAP and 1X, Starcomms Plc. has subscribed to a new undersea cable linking Nigeria and the whole of West Africa to Europe.

Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas Ltd (NLNG) has approached international banks for a potential $2 billion secured financing, banking sources close to the deal said. NLNG — a consortium of state-owned Nigerian National Petroleum Corp, Royal Dutch Shell, Total and ENI — is expected to raise the deal by the end of the year, the bankers added.

A university don, Professor Aize Obayan, has called for collaborative efforts between the academia and practitioners in the real estate sector that will ensure a meeting point between theory and practice to get the best from the real estate stakeholders.

Three decades after the British Government under the leadership of then Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, introduced privatization as a government policy to a skeptical world, the concept has gained a near universal acceptance, though privatization has an ancient history. Ancient Greece contracted out nearly all of government functions to the private sector.

For the 2010 Lagos Advertising and Ideas Festival (LAIF), the Association of Advertising Agencies of Nigeria (AAAN) was emphatic on creativity, originality as a means to attaining recognition at international awards.

Mixed reactions have continued to trail the removal from office of Professor Ndi Okereke Onyiuke as Director General of the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) and Alhaji Aliko Dangote as President of Council of the Exchange, a situation many capital market operators and stakeholders attributed to personality and ego clashes.

Foreign exchange demand fell by one third in July while the naira recorded its highest appreciation against the dollar for the year following $435 million supply from oil companies during the month, says Financial Market Dealers Association of Nigeria.

Aqua-culture, a fish system farming which involves the process of commercially breeding fish in a basket, cage or any other enclosure in an existing body of water such as a pond, lake, dam or river may not be as popular as fish farming on land, but those who are into it are raking in cool cash from the business.

SALES and Distribution Controller, Lornamead Group, makers of Tura brand of personal care products, Mr. Sam Ndionyenma, has been inducted fellow of the National Institute of Marketing of Nigeria, NIMN.

VICE President Mohammed Namadi Sambo said that the first implementation Plan, NIP of four years for the country’s vision 20:2020 would gulp a total of N32 trillion naira.

The Chairman, Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), Mrs Ifueko Omogui-Okauru, has urged states in the South-East zone to fashion out strategies that would ensure optimal Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) collection. She gave the advice in a message to the ‘‘South-East Economic Forum’’ organised in Enugu by the UK Department for International Development (DFID).

As global economies countries are creeping out of the worst financial crisis ever, Insurance practitioners are looking up to the federal government to introduce business friendly policies that would help the financial sector recover fully from the scars of the global crisis.

AN international fire equipment company with Nigerian presence Alco Systems Nigeria Limited has introduced a new fire fighting device into the Nigerian market.

De-marketing, that, ugly, unhealthy practice which caused a lot of ripples within the banking industry last year, has reared its head again in Nigeria’s brewing industry which contributes over 28 per cent of Manufactured Value Added (MVA) and provides direct employment for millions of Nigerians.