archiveAugust 2016

As manufacturing businesses in Nigeria contend with various economic, political and social uncertainties, the British Prime Minister’s Trade Envoy to Nigeria, Hon. John Howell, has urged manufactures to stay the course and maximize the scale of the opportunities that abound in the country Howell made this call during a courtesy...

The Lagos State Government has signed into law the Properties Protection Law. Its Governor, Mr Akinwunmi Ambode on Monday has fulfilled his pledge of making the menace of land grabbing in the state a thing of the past with the signing of the law. Ambode also signed the Lagos State...

  Corroborates Dangote’s position KPMG, a professional service company, disagrees with reports that South Africs has overtaken Nigeria as Africa’s largest economy in dollar terms, saying the calculations behind this assertion are methodologically incorrect. The company states that the reported dollar estimates were based on Gross Domestic Product (GDP) data...

In line with its tradition of bolstering Nigeria’s marketing industry using innovative platforms, the Advertisers Association of Nigeria (ADVAN), the umbrella body for all advertisers in Nigeria is set to bring together industry stakeholders and supporters to celebrate marketing teams that have made outstanding contributions to the industry. The event,...

No fewer than 159,361 disengaged Nigerian workers were paid N49.55 billion pension entitlement after they were unable to secure a new job, four months after their disengagement. The aforementioned amount was paid to the beneficiaries since the inception of the Contributory Pension Scheme (CPS) till the end of the first...

Economic intelligence group at Access Bank Plc has predicted 17.2 per cent inflation rate in July from 16.5 per cent posted in June. The hike in inflation rate, according to the group,  is on the background of National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) scheduled release of inflation figure for July 2016....

Farmers and stakeholders in Plateau have predicted that farming season would experience poor harvest in 2016  compared to the same period last year. Some of the stakeholders said in Jos on Sunday that they anticipated poor harvest owing to farmers’ inability to access vital farm inputs. A lecturer with the...

Non-alcoholic beverage giant, Nigerian Bottling Company Limited (NBC) has announced the appointment of Mr. George Polymenakos as its new Managing Director, with effect from July 2016. Polymenakos succeeds Ben Langat, who joined NBC as Chief Finance Officer in 2009, and was appointed as Managing Director in 2012. Until recently, George...

The deadline for the submission of entries for the 2016 edition of the Nigerian Breweries’ Golden Pen Awards will close on Friday, 19th August, 2016. Kufre Ekanem, Nigerian Breweries Corporate Affairs Adviser, explained that intending interested journalists can still be part of the awards, by submitting their entries ahead of...

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and other market stakeholders have been commended on the issues of e-dividend, unclaimed-dividend solutions and extension of deadline on e-dividend registration by shareholders in the country. A shareholder activist and co-Founder Nigeria Shareholders Solidarity Association (NSSA), Alhaji Gbadebo Olatokunbo in a statement made available...