Events in the Nigerian and global business world over the past three years have focused attention on various aspects and functionalities of businesses, the role of government in regulation of businesses, the role of shareholders in corporate governance, how public corporations use publicly raised funds, who determines how corporate entities function in the market place, etc.

Emirates airline has become an early adopter of Microsoft’s latest Office product Office 2010, Microsoft Gulf has said.As one of the 30 global customers to be part of the pilot testing phase, Emirates airline accessed a pre-release version of the new Office 2010, as part of the Microsoft Rapid Deployment Program.

A maritime expert, Dr Chinedu Jideofo-Ogbuagu has said that the Ibaka Deep Seaport was capable of boosting the Akwa Ibom proposed maritime and industrial city. Jideofo-Ogbuagu, who is the President of Maritime Professionals Association, made the assertion in Uyo on Thursday in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN).

Central Bank of Nigeria CBN will in January 2011, introduce three classes of banking licences. The licences will be for Commercial Banking, Merchant Banking, Specialised and Development Banking.

Today’s real borders are not between nations, but between powerful and powerless, free and fettered, privileged and humiliated.”

THE Director- General Director, the Nigerian Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture (NACCIMA), John Isemede, disclosed yesterday that most companies in the West African sub region have failed to achieve success because they have refused to recognize the need to register their membership with their countries’ Chambers of Commerce and Industry.

Air Nigeria and Peugeot Automobile of Nigeria, PAN, are partnering on the celebration of Nigeria’s 50th independence anniversary, putting on offer a 307 Sedan Jubillee car and free return tickets as prizes.

Faced with the harsh realities of the society they live in, the Nigerian youth is getting wiser. Gone are the days when he goes to the university with the hope of getting employment as soon as he graduated. Today, many, like Mr. David Alalibo, a computer engineering graduate from the Covenant University, Canaan Land, Ota, and the Chief Executive Officer of Dataalcomms Ltd., made up their minds from the onset not only to be self-employed, but also employers of labour.

Emirates, the Dubai-based international airline, is offering families an opportunity to enjoy what’s left of the summer holidays with its ‘Kids Go Free’ promotion.

Aero contractors has concluded plans to launch its flight operations to Libreville, the Gabonese capital, with effect from September 20, 2010.