Delta says ready for investors as Asaba Airport receives second international flight
Ben Eguzozie
April 3, 2019
Governor Ifeanyi Okowa’s government in Delta State is apparently nudged by an emerging acceptance of the state’s airport by international airlines. He declared that the oil-rich state, with an estimated $20 billion gross state product (GSP) economy is set to receive foreign direct investments. Delta State is a major oil producing state and ranks second […]
Cross River: Ayade hangs on slim achievement going into new term
Ben EguzozieApril 3, 2019
Amid a curious mystical budget of N1.043 trillion (christened qabalistic densification) for 2019, which economic experts regarded as highly unrealisable and unachievable, Governor Benedict Ayade is relying on his slim achievement in first tenure of office (2015-2019) to earn the people’s support going into his second term, which begins on May 29. He and his […]
Building Port Harcourt Pleasure Park into a tourist product
Ben EguzozieApril 3, 2019
Before its construction and transformation into a tourist destination and a leisure centre, now generating revenue for the state, the expansive open land was a dingy city swamp that defaced the area adjacent the 2nd Amphibious Brigade Barracks on Aba Road, Port Harcourt’s busiest traffic artery. Port Harcourt Pleasure Park near Rumuola is today an […]
Chukwunyere, Onunji, Okeke say industrialisation key to economic development in Imo State
Dikachi FranklinMarch 20, 2019
By Dikachi Franklin, in Owerri Proper development of the industrial subsector of the state is seen as the right key now for the economic development of Imo state which has, for years, been riddled with huge youth unemployment and poverty, Chima Chukwunyere, managing director of Owerri-based Domino Paramount Hotels and chairman, Imo State Hoteliers […]
Tshabron Fish Farms, Owerri can produce 150,000 fish monthly
Dikachi FranklinMarch 20, 2019
CHARLES OKEKE ODIUKO, chairman Tshabron Group, says his passion for business is driven by the desire for job creation to contribute to tackling youth unemployment in the country. He shares with DIKACHI FRANKLIN, in Owerri, the decision by his Tshabron Group to diversify into agriculture, floating Tshaborn Farms, with its fish Farm located at the […]
WIMBIG, online raffle firm, begins operation in Aba
Ben EguzozieMarch 20, 2019
WIMBIG, an online raffle firm, has begun operation in Aba, Abia State’s commercial nerve centre. The company says it is offering wide opportunities to its customers to win a wide range of products and items. Eze Chimezie Chukwu, the general manager of WIMBIG explained that the company came with digital platform innovations to change the […]
Rivers economy bleeds as politicians’ tiff, election — propelled violence pound state
Ben EguzozieMarch 20, 2019
…several companies left state …unemployment soars at 41.8% …state mired in near daily violence The author of When Nations Die, Jim Nelson Black’s epic work about the darker side of American life, aptly describes the odious situation in Rivers State, propelled by bitter political spat among key political figures of the state. Black gave […]
At Internal Resources Concepts, we teach youths that their challenge isn’t money, it’s mind-shift – Asaba KP
Ben EguzozieMarch 13, 2019
ASABA KINGSLEY KP clearly falls within the 30-under-30 entrepreneurs group. He is a writer – with eight impact-building books; an entrepreneur – owner of Kingspa Cleaning Services, Port Harcourt; a life-coach and public/motivational speaker at university campuses around Nigeria. As chairman of Internal Resources Concepts (IRC), a youth-specific entrepreneurship development and mind-building outfit, Kingsley has […]
ECCIMA to begin milestone 30th Enugu trade fair April 5, laments FG’s poor attention to site development
Ben EguzozieFebruary 27, 2019
Enugu Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture (ECCIMA), the biggest city chamber east of the Niger, has announced April 5 to 15 this year as date for the 30th edition of the Enugu international trade fair. Emeka Udeze, president of ECCIMA said at the chamber’s complex in Enugu that activities have been mapped out to […]
Ayade’s unorthodox budgeting offers mystical powers in Cross River
Ben EguzozieFebruary 20, 2019
Analysts wait to see how he manages state’s economy On Wednesday, February 6, Ben Ayade, suave-talking governor of Cross River State, presented the state’s 2019 appropriation bill of N1.043 trillion to the state House of Assembly. Till date, it is the biggest budget by any Nigerian sub-national state. Lagos State, with a red-hot economy, […]