The handling of the Nigeria banking crisis portrays every investor in Nigerian economy as a common criminal who should not be trusted and must be dealt with. Going by the current CBN governor’s understanding of his role in the economy, his responsibility starts and ends with protecting depositors only.

The real estate sector brought in estimated revenues of N1.25 trillion into the Nigerian economy in 2010, representing a contribution of about 4.7 percent to the nation’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP).

The sixth edition of the annual Nigerian Real Estate Fair will seek to highlight current trends in the real estate industry.

South Africa’s biggest clothing company, Pepkor Ltd., plans to expand into Nigeria as retailers including Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (WMT) fight for a share of some of the world’s fastest growing retail markets.

John Holt Plc has introduced into the fire services sector two highly sophisticated Rosenbauer superstructure fire fighting trucks, as part of its determination to improve fire and safety solutions in the country.

The declining trend witnessed in the last couple of weeks in the Nigerian Stock Exchange continued last week, as the value of listed equities represented by the market capitalisation depreciated by N198.93 billion.

The World Bank has commended the Edo State Government for championing the willingness and leadership drive for development, which, according to it, is the fastest in the country.

The Minister of State for Trade and Investment, Dr. Samuel Ortom, weekend, called for sanction against China, and other Asian countries where over 80 percent of substandard products come from into the country.

In its pursuit to rekindle investors’ interest in the embattled Nigerian capital market which went down since the global financial meltdown in 2008, and attract investment for long-term development, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) took its awareness programme to Rivers State where the people and government were tutored on the need to access the market to fund its several ongoing projects.

The National Institute of Marketing of Nigeria, NIMN, has inducted 40 new members.President of NIMN, Chief Femi Odufowokan, while admitting the 40 new members, said the increase in membership was a demonstration of the institute’s commitment to qualitative capacity- building with regards to the training of professionals for the nation=s economic growth and development.