Owing a car in Nigeria is still a big thing. For most folks, affording a car is a sign that poverty has been conquered. The arrival of a car in a family is often celebrated with the glee and fanfare that characterise the birth of a male child in the traditional African family. Nigerians are party-loving people and when a car arrives, parties follow, neighbours are called and even the “enemies” are taunted prayerfully as having lost the battle.

Stakeholders at the youth empowerment programme recently organised by Healing Heart Foundation (HHF) in Lagos, have identified entrepreneurship as a way to liberty from the caprices of financial hardship.

Promasidor Nigeria Limited, makers of Cowbell Milk, is collaborating with National Association of Social Work Students (NASWS) under the department of Sociology University of Lagos (UNILAG) to donate the company’s products to care homes in Akoka and Idi-Araba areas of Lagos.

Actvities marking the 60th anniversary celebrations of gobal soft drinks giant, Coca-Cola in Nigeria reached top gear with the unveiling of the special 60th anniversary bottle in Lagos, Friday.

Access Bank last week rewarded another set of 30 customers, 15 individuals and corporate customers each with exemption from bank charges. The winners emerged through an electronic draw witnessed by the bank’s staff, journalists and a representative of Lagos State Lotteries Board.

Greek Coke bottler Coca-Cola Hellenic (CCH) has won shareholder approval to buy out the Nigerian Bottling Company (NBC) and turn it into a wholly-owned subsidiary in a deal worth $136 million, its local unit said on Monday.

On April 14, 2010, there was an unveiling of a first-of-a-kind initiative, a CSR Centre at the Lagos Business School, the Pan African University. This centre was borne out of the need to advance the concept and penetration of CSR as a business ideology in Nigeria in an intellectual and practical way, thereby contribute in shaping the perspectives of key policy and decision makers in the public and private sectors and positively impacting the various levels of the socio-economic strata using a targeted and intellectual-oriented approach.

Dubai will be more affordable than ever this summer with the Emirates Airline global ‘Summer Smiles’ campaign. Running until 30th September, the promotion coincides with Dubai’s ‘Global Kids Go Free in Dubai’ campaign and Dubai Summer Surprises, when Dubai stores have summer sales.