We’ve transformed Just Food from trading company to international manufacturing business – Chairman Ikpobe
Onome Amuge
June 26, 2023
APOLLOS IKPOBE, banker and financial expert with over three decades experience in the banking and finance industry, including stints as executive director, Zenith Bank Plc; deputy managing director, United Bank for Africa Plc, as well as many non- executive directorships, is currently the chairman of Just Food Limited. West Africa’s leading supplier of quality consumables […]
Jim O’Neill, former Goldman Sachs executive, on BRICS, de-dollarisation, global inflation, Nigeria’s resource curse, Brexit
Business a.m.June 21, 2023
By Business A.M. The BRICS 20 years on! In this interview, originally published by IC Intelligence, Jim O’Neill, who as chief economist of Goldman Sachs wrote the paper that gave birth to the acronym BRICS, in conversation with Desné Masie, chief economist, IC Intelligence, speaks on BRICS, de-dollarisation, global inflation and macroeconomic risk, […]
Imo State budgeting process has World Bank endorsement — Commissioner
Saby ElembaMay 16, 2023
CHRISTOPHER OSUALA, two time federal legislator, holds three PhDs. He is a lawyer, as well as a management and financial expert. He sits on the Imo State Executive Council as commissioner for budget, economic planning and statistics. He spoke with SABY ELEMBA on the progress being made in the management of Imo State by […]
Owerri Chamber SME group urges govts to build skills acquisition centres
Saby ElembaMay 1, 2023
By Saby Elemba, in Owerri The Small and Medium Enterprises Group of the Owerri Chamber of Commerce, Industries, Mines and Agriculture (OCCIMA) has urged both state and federal governments to build skills acquisition centres and infrastructure to support the growth of small and medium enterprises in the country. Gerald Nkwekegbu, vice president, SME Contact and […]
South East, left out in federal government’s agriculture plans
Saby ElembaMay 1, 2023
By Saby Elemba, in Owerri VITUS AYO ENWEREM, chairman, All Farmers Association (AFAN), Imo State, in this brief interview with Business A.M., tells SABY ELEMBA that the South East has conveniently been forgotten by the federal government in all its agriculture programmes How much has the All Farmers Association of Nigeria (AFAN), Imo State, […]
ALIM ABUBAKRE: Connecting town and gown for public, private sector leadership
Phillip IsakpaMarch 21, 2023
An academic’s quest to see that theory meets practice in its application in the real world of organisation management and leadership in the public and private sectors; ensuring that the challenges of the present are understood in their modern nature and characteristics, and that the right theories are applied in finding solutions to them, offers […]
Cocoa farming can be lucrative investment for Imo civil servants
Saby ElembaMarch 13, 2023
INNOCENT DIKE, chairman, Imo State chapter of the Cocoa and Plantain Farmers Association of Nigeria (CP-FAN), says investment in cocoa is a long lasting venture and he speaks about the benefits members of the association derive from their investment in cocoa farming in this interview with SABY ELEMBA. What is the state of things […]
Manufacturing faces bleak future in Nigeria, needs right president to emerge in 2023 polls
business AMFebruary 13, 2023
By Business AM ROMMY ANYANWU, lawyer, industrialist, and former chairman of the Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (MAN), Imo/Abia branch, and a national council member for eight years, resides in Aba, Abia State. In this telephone interview with SABY ELEMBA, he tells Business A.M. that the future of the manufacturing sector of Nigeria’s economy is bleak, […]
There’ll be no Imo economy without hotel sector, just petrol stations – Says GM, G-Towers Hotel
Animashaun LutherFebruary 6, 2023
Excerpts: Could you walk us through the story of Global Towers Hotel and Tourism Limited? Global Towers Hotel and Tourism Limited, popularly called G-Towers is a -3 star hotel that is unique from others. It is a hotel with a whole lot of facilities, including for tourism. Our facilities include an Olympic size swimming […]
How leaders can win with better Self Awareness— Professor Roger Delves
BusinessamFebruary 6, 2023
University of Oxford alumnus, Professor Roger Delves, shares insights into how leaders can win through better self-awareness. He also explains why executives should attend TEXEM UK’s forthcoming programme on ‘Self-awareness for better management of change in Uncertain times’. Delves himself, Professor Paul Griffith, Ambassador Charles Crawford, and Professor Randall Peterson will help deliver the live […]