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  • ‘Small scale enterprises can drive the economy’

    What is the role of small and medium-sized enterprises in the  economy and how can their prospects be boosted? Mr. Eric Idogun, a public administrator, in an attempt to answer the question, speaks  about SMEs important role. ...

    • Posted March 26, 2011
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  • Apple’s iPad 2 hits overseas stores after U.S. sellout

    Hundreds of customers lined up outside Apple stores in Australia and New Zealand on Friday for the international launch of the iPad 2, which has flown off the shelves in the United States leaving the company struggling...

    • Posted March 25, 2011
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  • Nigeria’s market evades Japan’s automobile supply crisis

    AS Japan continues to count the cost of its losses to the recent disaster in the country, Nigeria’s automobile market may have been immuned from the concomitant vehicle supply crisis from the Far East Asian country. Reason:...

    • Posted March 25, 2011
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  • Afren acquires 74 per cent stake in Tanzanian oil bloc

    AFREN Plc, yesterday, announced the acquisition of a 74 per cent working interest in the Tanga Block, located onshore and offshore Tanzania, from Petrodel Resources Limited. Afren, an indigenous oil company quoted on the London Stock Exchange,...

    • Posted March 25, 2011
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  • Govt laments low fertilizer disbursement rate

    THE Federal Government has expressed displeasure over the low disbursement of fertilizers in the all the 36 states and the FCT for the year ended 2010. This is coming at heels of a report that Nigeria was...

    • Posted March 25, 2011
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  • Fan Milk to inject N2b on facility upgrade

    FAN Milk Plc has unveiled plans to invest N2 billion to boost production capacity in 2011. The company also plans to construct a new mixing section to ensure that a daily capacity of 200,000 litres can be...

    • Posted March 25, 2011
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  • Court adjourns trial of Chinese firm over alleged breach of contract

    A LAGOS State High Court has adjourned trial on the suit brought by an indigenous Nigerian company, Michonest Solutions International Limited against a Chinese firm, Gaoxinqi Nigeria Limited and a Chinese national, Mr. Frank Ysihai over supply...

    • Posted March 25, 2011
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  • Western Union launches new payment technology

    THE Western Union Company has announced the official launch of its PIN Pad technology across all of its agents in the country. The new feature will provide additional security for all users of Western Union in Nigeria....

    • Posted March 25, 2011
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  • Ex-Apple exec rolls out phone-based social network

    Bill Nguyen, the serial entrepreneur who sold his last company to Apple Inc in 2009, is launching a new cellphone-based social network which aims to challenge Facebook’s dominance in social communications beyond the personal computer.    ...

    • Posted March 24, 2011
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  • IGI boosts NUGA with N30m

    INDUSTRIAL And General Insurance (IGI) Plc, the nation’s sports-friendly insurance company, in furtherance of its sponsorship of sports in Nigeria and commitment to youth development, is sponsoring the 2011 National Universities Games (NUGA) with a package worth...

    • Posted March 24, 2011
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