Agriculture has been described as a viable business that can earn the country the needed foreign exchange if only the government can increase budgetary allocation to the sector and making sure that whatever is budget is judiciously used.

The report by Akintolla Williams Deloitte on the four year financial statement of the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE), has revealed how the former management of the Exchange may have defied the tenet of good corporate governance.

Mr. Ayo Philips popularly called AY, is the Chief Executive Officer of AY Art Link.
The artist who specialises in portrait painting spoke to Vanguard in Lagos recently.

PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan said that if the country must achieve its set goal of becoming one of the top twenty largest economies of the world, Nigeria must embrace manufacturing and the non-oil sector, just as he said that the country must develop the non-oil sector with resources from oil.

Mass exodus out of the stock market due to fear is an absolute disregard for a long term investment plan that is driven by fundamentals. The shock caused by irrational exuberance and fear are volatilities inherent in markets.

Over time, it’s been the duty of business people to know what to do to meet the demands of various claimants for Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). What do they (Operating society) expect? And what particular responsibility should be given priority?.

As local insurers struggle to catch the attention of A.M.Best and Standard & Poor’s ratings to attract the magnet of Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC)’s insurance accounts, the two NNPC accredited rating agencies are beefing up their rating assessments of financial institutions in Africa.

Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, has denounced the practice of demanding excessive agency fees from prospective tenants in Lagos, thereby adding to the already prohibitive costs of rent for the masses in the state.

Forty-two insurance companies with not less than 300 brokers in the country have severed themselves from the protests flying in and around the media over the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation’s Consolidated Insurance Policy (NNPC-CIP) and the federal government’s group life.

At a colourful ceremony graced by two former president, Olusegun Obasanjo of Nigeria, Dauda Jawara of Gambia and Chairman, LOC of the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, Danny Jordan, Emirates, at the 2010 Africa Travel Market awards in Lagos, emerged the best international airline in Nigeria.