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In a move to explore the business opportunities between The Gambia and Taiwan, The Gambia Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI), yesterday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Chinese International Economic Cooperation Association (CIECA), at the first ever Taiwan-Gambia joint business council meeting held at Jerma Beach Hotel.
For sometime now, the issue of gratuity in the light of the pension reform has been a contentious one between employees and the employer. Many human resource managers are also not clear about how to handle this.
Wema Bank PLC has been appointed by the Joint Admission and Matriculation Examination Board (JAMB) to sell its newly introduced on-line Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) application forms.
The Nigerian Accounting Standards Board (NASB) said it is set to issue a new accounting standards for Small and Medium Scale Enterprises (SMEs).
Tough times await shareholders of Okomu Oil Palm Company Plc, in terms of returns on their investments, especially in the area of dividends and bonuses, as the company recorded a significant decline in its key financial indices for its third quarter fiscal year.
The National Insurance Commission has outlined a comprehensive plan to assist the market grow its premium from the 2008 position of N179.3billion to N1.1trillion in three years. The blueprint has as its main drivers, the enforcement of mandatory insurances in the relevant laws affecting insurance.
A nation enjoys unfettered rights over the oil and gas deposits situated within its borders or located beneath its Continental Shelf to the outer limit of its Exclusive Economic Zone, as determined in accordance with the Convention on the Continental Shelf held in Geneva, April 1958.
SHELL Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) said over $1 billion has been spent on the Gbaran-Ubie Integrated Oil and Gas Project, with the provision of employment for 6,000 Nigerians.
Modant Marine Plc, a Port Harcourt-based indigenous boat manufacturing company, is at the Lagos International Trade Fair to explore both local and foreign markets for its products.
A house of Representatives member representing Sumaila Federal Consiteuncy, Kano State, Alhaji Kawu Abdurrahman Sumaila, has warned the federal government against quick deregulation of the oil sector without conducting a referendum to know the people's view on the issue.
President of the Economic Community of West Africa, ECOWAS, Mohammad Ibn Chambas has given reasons, why Rivers State was chosen to host the Miss ECOWAS beauty paegent.
As the war of attrition between the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Sanusi Lamido Sanusi and shareholders of the troubled banks continue, emerging facts show that investors may not only have lost about N1.864 trillion investments in banks, but have to wait for recovery in the next five years.
Abia State House of Assembly has denied embarking on any strike as reportedly alleged by one of the lawmakers last week, but said it is only on stand-by waiting the receipt of 2010 budget from the Executive.
Operatives of the Nigeria Customs Service in the Osun/Oyo Area Command last weekend impounded a trailer load of imported rice with the consignment packed as cement in the haulage trailer.
The only way forward out of the global financial crisis, particularly in Nigeria, is for banks and insurance firms to form a strong partnership, Adeyemo Adejumo, managing director/chief executive officer (CEO) of Continental Reinsurance Plc, has said.
Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Polytechnics (SSANIP) Yaba College of Technology chapter, has organised interactive forum with PENCOM and Pension Funder Administrators (PFAs) to enable them interact with their fund managers and clear away all grey areas..
THE Central Bank of Nigeria Governor, Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi will today lead other intellectuals to deliver this year's public lecture/Annual General Meeting of the Nigeria Institute of Public Relations (NIPR).
The first set of two winners have emerged in the Lagos edition of Technology Distributions (TD)'s Laptopmania promo, the star event of the firm's 10th anniversary celebrations.
No fewer than 2,000 commercial drivers in Abia State will undergo eye examination, as part of the "ember months" road safety campaign of the Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC).
Former Abia state governor Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu smarting from a recent road trip to the Federal Capital Territory through the southwest has called on the Federal Government to treat as a matter of national emergency,building a Highway from Lagos to Abuja.
At the wake of broadband becoming the new baseline, the global Information and Communication Technology (ICT) regulators under the aegis of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), has enjoined governments to engage in enlightened policies that could drive roll-out, innovation and affordable pricing.
An Onitsha industrialist, Chief Ignatius Agbalaizu, has decried the increasing deplorable state of roads, especially federal roads, in Anambra State and South East in general.
Intel Corporation has announced the appointed Mr. Douglas Melamed to serve as senior vice president and general counsel. In this role he will be responsible for overseeing all Intel legal matters as well as corporate and government affairs. He would report to Intel President and CEO, Mr. Paul Otellini, and maintain offices at Intel headquarters in Santa Clara.
The National Service Manager, Panabiz international Limited, Mr. Phanidhar Rachapudi, has said that quality after-sales service is top on the company's commitment to the Nigerian market.
At the peak of its boom in the 1970s through to the 1980s, the Nigerian textile sub-sector gave direct employment to some 250,000 workers.
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