Goals 4 and 5 of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) aim to reduce child mortality and improve maternal health across the globe. However, Nigeria has recorded increasing rate of maternal mortality, rising to 3,200 women (number of mothers per 100,000 births dying within...

The Federal Government is to prosecute telecommunications operators, found to be fleecing subscribers through poor service delivery. Minister of Communications Technology, Mrs Omobola Johnson who made the disclosure said the ministry had commenced collaboration with the Consumer Protection Council...

Registrar-General of the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC), Bello Mahmud, says the CAC's goal was to be able to register companies within two hours, anywhere in Nigeria. In a lecture titled 'Nigeria's New Business Environment and CAC's Intervention,' at the...

Olusegun Aganga, the minister for industry, trade and investment, says the Federal Government’s main focus in 2014 was to process the country’s agriculture raw materials for export. He said Nigeria had the capacity to process her agro-allied raw materials...

South African retailer Woolworths Holdings Ltd. (WHL) has canned its three-store pilot project in Nigeria as high rental costs, duties and complex supply chain processes make trading "highly challenging", SA Property and Commercial News has reported. The company made its...

The National Automotive Council (NAC) says Nigerians would soon be able to purchase brand new made in Nigeria cars for as low as N1.2 million. This is even as there are no standard foundry and forge companies with capacity...