THE future is littered with uncertainty, and so are all of our lives’ endeavours.There is one thing we can do to add a bit of certainty to it. We can know a trade or skill that will never diminish in need. This analysis affected the whole world and Nigeria in particular.

JUNIOR Achievement Nigeria, JAN, is partnering Lagos State Ministry of Education on its Ready Set Work programme, designed to impact about 12,000 students from tertiary institutions in Lagos State, Ms. Ade Sofola, Director of Programmes, has said.

Let me start by saying that before anyone ventures into any business, it is important to test the market. You must research into what the market wants and what players in the industry are doing to meet customers’ needs. Also, you must find out the things that they are not doing and come up with strategies to go beyond the available level of service. You must be able to identify what you want to do differently because if what you are bringing to the market is not different from what customers currently enjoy, there would be no basis for them to switch to your brand that is still new.

THE Bank of Industry (BoI) has held technical sessions with micro finance banks (MFBs), in furtherance of its plan to collaborate with credible MFBs to facilitate access to credit for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and deepen financial inclusion in Nigeria.

The World Bank has dissociated itself from a multi-purpose co-operative scheme advertised in some parts of the country.

The journey of the Nigerian integrated cement manufacturing, which took a new course just over a decade ago, has seen Nigeria move from a nation with under 3 million tonnes of production capacity to a country that will have some 45 million tons of cement manufacturing capacity by next year – implying about 15 fold increase in capacities. This important feat has not only made Nigeria self sufficient in cement production but also a net exporter of the commodity

Stanbic IBTC Plc facilitated $589.84 million, an equivalent of N216.47 billion, capital inflow into the country in the second quarter, Q2, 2017, ranking it first among financial institutions that imported capital into Nigeria.

Amidst a number of positive developments in the global economy, the Nigerian economy improved in the first half of 2017, H1’17, compared to a contractionary 2016 which saw a relatively worse economic performance, and economy and financial analysts have given a huge credit to the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, under the leadership of Mr. Godwin Emefiele, who had incidentally, taken many knocks over the initial failings in the economy.

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has introduced Electronic Certificate of Capital Importation (eCCI) platform in a bid to boost foreign investment inflows to Nigeria.

Investment analysts in the capital market have said that prices on the Nigerian Stock Exchange, NSE, may trade around current levels and even higher towards the end of the year.