The Communications Manager, GM Sub-Saharan Africa, Denise van Huyssteen, is so passionate about the Nigerian market.  And she could not hide her feelings and excitement about the huge potential in the Nigerian automobile market.

Nigeria has achieved impressive economic growth between 1999 and 2010, as the economy grew fifteen fold from US$36 to nearly US$555 billion, according to “The 2012 Gender in Nigeria Report by the British Council, Nigeria”. The report states that the figure of US$555 billion “may even be an underestimate, because they do not include the informal sector, where women are concentrated, which makes a substantial contribution to national wealth creation”.

AS anxiety heightens following doubts over the actual state of health of ailing anti-apartheid icon, Dr. Nelson Mandela, South Africans have united to offer prayers for the continental and global political titan who was the country’s first black president.

“Nation prays for Madiba,” was the front-page headline in The Sowetan as the daily attempted to capture the zeitgeist of a nation.

GOVERNOR of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, has asked the Federal Government to downsize the labour force if it must achieve anything meaningful as far as economic resuscitation is concerned in the country.

Nigeria is considering watering down proposed changes to the fiscal regime for international oil companies operating offshore after warnings that they will drive away investment and cost hundreds of thousands of jobs.

After just eight years, Nigeria’s pension fund is already N2.9 trillion richer and before the year runs out, the fund could be in the region of N3 trillion.

President Obama launched into damage-control mode Thursday, as he tried to smooth over his rocky debate performance from the night before while bracing for the next potential game-changer – the monthly unemployment report.

NEL AWARDS 2012 @ NH HARRINGTON HOTEL, KENSINGTON, LONDON – 22ND SEPTEMBER 2012

Esosa Aihie, Nigeria Magazine

The 2nd Nigerian Entertainment & Lifestyle Awards (NEL Awards) took place on 22 September 2012 at the prestigious NH Harrington Hotel in London. It recognised the achievements of Nigerian Entertainers and Lifestyle professionals. Founders of the NEL Awards are Sam Onigbanjo and Seye Aina.

With Akwa Ibom State, we have finally found a budget that allocates more than 70 per cent to capital expenditure – the recommended minimum to achieve accelerated and meaningful development in an underdeveloped setting. We will analyse the 1,095-page document titled “Approved Estimates of Akwa Ibom State for 2012.”

To what will you attribute Boko Haram’s terrorism?-Let me begin by reminding everyone that Boko Haram has a very long history, whether you describe Boko Haram as an army of the discontent, or even as some people grotesquely try to suggest, “revolutionaries,” or you describe them as, legitimately, this time, as marginalised or feeling marginalised.