NAICOM Board Visits Secretary to Government of the Federation

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Press Remarks by CBN Governor, Godwin Emefiele on Issuance...

Set out to provide alternative holiday resort in Nigeria for Nigerians and foreigners alike, Lekki Miami Beach Resort (LMBR) Limited has continued to expand, offering value that could be comparable to its peers in other parts of the world. One year after commissioning, the resort located on Lekki Area of Lagos has provided leisure and comfort for individual and corporate clients who needed to relax after for short vacation and hard work off the city coast.

L-R: Deputy Governor of Bayelsa State, Sen. Lawrence Ewhrudjakpo;...

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At "Andersen U.," the lush, 150-acre campus where Arthur Andersen LLP has trained tens of thousands of new recruits, there's a shrinento ethical accounting. A display in the Andersen Heritage Center is devoted to yellowing press clippings of a long-ago campaign to clean up the accounting industry by Leonard Spacek, who led the firm from 1947 to 1963. In one, he accused Bethlehem Steel of overstating its profits in 1964 by more than 60%. In another, he bashed the Securities and Exchange Commission for failing to crack down on companies that cooked their books, saying that at best the regulatory agency has been "a brake on the rate of retrogression in the quality of accounting."

The swearing in of Nigeria’s new president Muhammadu Buhari has led to renewed optimism regarding economic progress in the country and new opportunities for the private sector, particularly in infrastructure development, consumer and financial services sectors. Four prominent businessmen, visiting Cape Town, South Africa for the World Economic Forum 2015, discussed the economic outlook for Nigeria under its new government at a breakfast hosted by RMB Nigeria. Christian Wessels, Deputy Group Managing Director of TGI Group, a leading Nigerian conglomerate, is confident that a more entrenched democracy has been established in Nigeria and sees the greatest opportunities in providing appropriate goods and services to a population of 175 million people.

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