23 January 2012

MTN would spend more than $1 billion (R8.1bn) in 2012 to improve its network in Nigeria, says Akinwale Goodluck, the spokesman for MTN's Nigerian unit.

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23 January 2012

A South African travel and hospitality consultant, Elisha Maistry, has identified a number of steps that Nigeria and South Africa should take to achieve a mutually-rewarding business relationship in the travel and hospitality sector. 

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23 January 2012

SABMiller is to combine the operational management of the Castel and SABMiller businesses in Nigeria and Angola, with the Nigerian businesses being managed in future by SABMiller, and the Angolan businesses being managed by Castel. The company said the changes in its African operations, effective from 1 January, were a part of its strategic alliance agreement with the Castel Group.

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09 December 2011

Nothing best exemplifies the state of Nigeria’s leadership than the dilapidating state of the gateway to the nation - the Murtala Mohammed Airport, Ikeja. An airport that sits strategically as not only a possible gateway to Nigeria, but West Africa as well as the rest of the World, MMA today sits as an example of a failed nation, a decaying leadership and above all, a clueless president!

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06 December 2011

Sub-standard products worth N50 billion enter the Nigerian market from Asian countries, the Director General of the Standard Organisation of Nigeria (SON), Dr. Joseph Odumodu, has disclosed.

Speaking in Abuja on 1 December, Odumodu said most of the products find their way into the country through the ports of Lagos, Port Harcourt and Calabar, while Abuja and Kano also have their share of imported products. He further said an estimated 80 per cent of goods imported into the country for onward distribution and use are sub-standard, and about 90 per cent of life endangering products, consisting of cables, extension cables, voltage stabilisers and other electrical products, are sub-standard.

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