T is just as well that Lagos Deep Offshore Logistics, LADOL and Samsung Heavy Industries, SHI, have chosen to take their trade dispute to both the court of law and the court of public opinion. Given the importance of the partnership to the economic wellbeing of the nation and the profound implications for the success or otherwise of the much trumpeted technology transfer bid, this troubled partnership can only be ignored at our collective peril.

The Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry, LCCI, has disclosed that over 200 foreign exhibitors from 16 countries will be exhibiting at the 2018 Lagos International Trade Fair (LITF).

The micro pension scheme will expand coverage of the Contributory Pension Scheme, CPS, to include self employed individuals such as artisans as well as employees of organizations with less than three people on their payroll.  This will form a major part of the government’s financial inclusion objectives.

NIGERIA’s agricultural   sector losses about N20 billion annually due to failure of insurance companies to create products to cover small farmers. Stakeholders in the agriculture sector stated this while speaking at the 2018 national insurance brokers’ conference and exhibition in Lagos, noting that the absence of insurance cover for smallholder farmers is part of the reason why livestock agriculture is not growing in Nigeria.

ACTING Director General of  the Securities and Exchange Commission, SEC, Ms. Mary Uduk has assured investors in the Capital Market that there is nothing to fear on the performance of the stock market as the 2019 election approaches. Uduk spoke while responding to questions from journalists on the sidelines of the just concluded World Bank/IMF Annual Meetings in Bali, Indonesia.