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Insecticide manufacturers repositioning to meet changing market challenges

Given the high rate of health concerns, particularly malaria attacks and complaints by consumers, insecticide manufacturers have been devising more ways to win back consumers’ unstable loyalty to their various products. This is on the heels of market perspective that with a sustained population growth the demand for insecticides that kill both flying and creeping insects are expected to continue to grow. With emphasis on cleaner environment, hygiene in modern lifestyle and ward-off of home intruders like mosquitoes and other creeping insects, insecticide (insect repellents or killers) industry also expects further increase in demand for products that satisfy these needs.

Visa, Genesis Cinema sign discount agreement

Visa has signed a discount agreement with Genesis Cinemas that will give mVisa customers access to exclusive movie ticket offers. Speaking of the partnership, Olukemi Okusanya, Country Manager, Visa West Africa said: “This partnership is a part of our ongoing commitment to giving Visa customers benefits that are meaningful to their needs, passions and lifestyles. Since the launch of mVisa in July, we have partnered hundreds of merchants who are already receiving payments via the platform nationwide.”

TG Expo holds maiden edition of machinery, metal & steel exhibition

TG Expo, international trade fair organisers, says the first ever Machinery Metal & Steel, MMS, Exhibition to the industry professionals and government officials will hold this month in Lagos. The exhibition holds from the 18th to 20th October 2017. The three days event will showcase products like pipes, tubes, wire, cables, sheet metal, environment protection, energy conservation, filtration and separation, nano-technologies, induction furnace and heat treatment, safety equipment and technology and smelting and refining in the industrial products industry to name a few.

Over $60bn invested in ICT since 2001 – Minister

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 T HE Minister of Communications, Mr. Adebayo Shittu, had said that more than $60 billion has been invested in Information Communication Technology, ICT in Nigeria since 2001. Shittu stated this at the sixth European Union-Nigeria Business Forum in Lagos, with the theme: “Youth as Engine of Broad-Based Economic Transformation”.

China-Africa Investment Forum: Over 400 Chinese, African economic decision makers expected in Marrakesh

The China-Africa Investment Forum (CAIF) will bring together more than 400 top-level Chinese and African business leaders for two days  conferences and business meetings on 27 and 28 November, in Marrakesh. With more than 10,000 companies active on the continent generating $60 billion a year in industrial production, trade to the tune of $122 billion and non-financial direct investment that rose by 31% to reach $2.5 billion in 2016, China is Africa’s most important trading partner today.

Investing in fish farming is profitable

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 Agriculture was the main source of generating revenue before oil was discovered in Nigeria. Then, the country was into different types of agriculture, ranging from crop farming to peasant farming and plantation agriculture to mention but a few. As soon as oil was discovered, Nigeria abandoned agriculture, and today we are beginning to realise the importance of agriculture to a growing economy of Africa especially Nigeria.