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Ahead of the UN Climate Change Conference (COP-17) in Durban, South Africa, participants at the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) Symposium on ICTs and Climate Change in Ghana have renewed calls for global leaders to recognise the power of in...
Ahead of full compliance by Nigeria banks with the newly adopted Nigerian Uniform Bank Account Numbering (NUBAN), Union Registrar Limited has commenced revalidation of e-dividend mandates of shareholders in various company registers. The Managing Direc...
Edo State Governor, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole has assented to the Hotels and Events Centres Occupancy and Restaurants Consumption Tax Law recently passed by the House of Assembly. The Law envisages the imposition of a consumption tax on any person who p...
Union Bank has put in place a strategic plan that would enable it key into the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) ahead of the 2012 deadline set by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). The bank organised a one week workshop on the basics ...
The National Insurance Commission (NAICOM) has disclosed that 19 insurers, including Industrial and General Insurance Plc, Great Nigeria Insurance and Nigerian Reinsurance Corporation were yet to submit their financials for the year ended December 31, ...
With the planned delisting of Nigerian Bottling Company (NBC), makers of Coca-Cola, Fanta and Sprite from the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE), shareholders in the market have said that they would rally Nigerians to boycott the company’s products. T...
Recently, the Nigerian Stock Exchange wielded the big stick and sanctioned 48 erring companies that had violated the post-listing requirements. In this write-up, CHRIS UGWU examines the impact of the suspension on the market Stock markets all over the ...
After several attempts to attain ‘compliant status’, an endorsement of Nigeria’s management of revenue from the extractive sector by the global Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative,EITI, the country finally got the nod in Febru...
While growing up as a young boy in Anambra State, Osita Emmanuel Okoli got introduced into estate surveying by his elder brother who was then an architect. He has since found love in the profession and today, he is already at the pinnacle of his career...
Ogun state government has been advised to look inward in areas of boosting the internally generated revenue (IGR) of the state for it to be able to deliver on its electioneering promises. This advise was given by the state chairman of the Scrap Dealers...
The minister of aviation, Stella Oduah-Ogiemwonyi has charged the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) to meet the challenges of the 21st century so as to remain competitive or it would go out of business. The minister handed down the challenge...
The nation’s cocoa processors, yesterday said they wantt the government to set up an industry regulator to boost earnings from the crop. “We are asking for the government to set up an agency, an authority to monitor and provide the legal fr...
At a time developed and developing countries of the world are striving to take buildings to the skies, Nigeria is still battling with the worrisome menace of how to overcome the problem of building collapse. In this report, GEORGE OKOJIE writes on how ...
The Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) and Petrobras, the Brazilian national oil company, have begun a collaboration and exchange programme towards boosting local content development and employment generation in the Nigerian oil ...
The Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) has approved the appointment of Mr. Bola Adeeko as its Chief of Staff In a statement signed by the Exchange’s Senior Manager, Corporate Affairs, Mr. Wole Tokede, and made available to Leadership, Adeeko who resum...