Though the English language has been proven to be the most complicated language with 26 letters and 42 sounds, children stand a better chance of learning to read and write it using the Jolly Phonics, a system whereby children are taught structured blending of words.

Arik Air has deployed its new Airbus A330-200 aircraft onto its daily Lagos-Johannesburg route. The aircraft replaces the Boeing B737-800 aircraft hitherto flying between the two cities.

Like similar schemes before it, the N500 billion real sector fund has fallen victim of internal bureaucracy of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN).

The gross inadequacy of affordable housing for the teeming Nigerian populace has been attributed to a number of factors, one of which is the lack of a thriving mortgage market in the country thus making accessibility to mortgage facilities extremely difficult.

Products and electioneering campaigns will take a new turn come 2011, if what Plural Media and Technologies Limited (PMTL) is deploying into the Marketing Communications landscape is utilised properly by the market.

CHAIRMAN of the Nigerian Institute of Quantity Surveyors, NIQS, Delta State Chapter, Mr. Peter Johnson Effam and another member of the institute in the state, Mr. F.S. Ekurume have been invested as fellows of the institute, FNIQS.

The introduction of the ad tagline ‘Dirt is good’, a marketing communication concept developed by Omo to drive the detergent market share, may have stiffened competition as it’s action in the market has elicited reaction in far away Markudi, Benue State capital, where the brand stagged an activation to further play itself into the heart of consumers in relation to child development toga.

MINISTER of the Federal Capital Territory Administration, FCTA, Senator Bala Mohammed disclosed yesterday that arrangements have been concluded for the establishment of Fish Farm Estates in all the six Area Councils of the Federal Capital Territory where Fish Markets will also be sited.

The Federal Government’s refinery project to be sited in Bayelsa is expected to generate 5,000 jobs, Mr Billy Agha, the Group Executive Director, NNPC, has announced. He made the announcement on Thursday in Yenagoa when he led the management team of the project, Greenfield Refinery and Petroleum Plants, on a courtesy visit to Gov. Timipre Sylva of Bayelsa.

Diamond Bank Plc, provider of comprehensive banking and other financial services to corporate and individual customers across Nigeria and Africa announces its results for the 6 months ended 30 June 2010.

It came as no surprise to close observers of the economy when the Minister for State for Finance, Remi Babalola reported that the NNPC was insolvent.

Emirates Airlines has placed an order with Boeing for an additional 30 units of B777-300ER aircraft worth approximately $9.1 billion.The new order, placed at the Farnborough Air Show in the United Kingdom, adds to the fleet of the airline’s 71 aircraft type previously ordered, of which 53 aircraft are currently in service.

National Insurance Commission (NAICOM) has finally succeeded acquiring its own head office years after the commission’s head office had been housed in a rented building.

In spite of all challenges facing life insurance business in the West African region, Nigeria and Ghana’ life insurance companies are soaring in premium income as a result of enacted laws to enhance life insurance.

The Mortgage Banking Association of Nigeria (MBAN), the umbrella body of primary mortgage institutions (PMIs) in Nigeria, has advocated that the minimum capital base being proposed for the mortgage banks be pegged at N3 billion as opposed to the N5 billion being contemplated by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN).