The attention of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has been drawn to the activities of some fraudulent persons using the social media to misinform the public about a purported general recruitment exercise in the Bank. These dubious elements have also in the process collected money from some unsuspecting applicants under false pretext.
SKILL –The Nigerian Army Engineering Corps to take over pipelines surveillance.
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and the Nigerian Security Agencies have pledged to deploy drone technology in order to stem crude and petroleum products theft across the country.
The Group Managing Director of the Corporation, Ibe Kachikwu, stated this during a courtesy visit to the Chief of Defense Staff, General Abayomi Gabriel Olonisakin in the Defence Headquarters, Abuja.
Following the increase in the number of prospective exhibitors and visitors, who have shown interest in the forthcoming 2013 Lagos International Trade Fair, the Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI), organisers of the fair, have said that this year’s edition is expected to record greater success than the previous years.
The United Nation Development Programme (UNDP) estimates that about one billion people lack clean water, globally. It also estimated that 2.4 billion people lack access to hygienic sanitation facilities, while 1.2 billion of them lack any sanitation facilities at all. Consequently, an average of 5,000 children die from water and sanitation related diseases, each day, many of which are easily preventable.
The socio-political and economic landscape in Nigeria has been blighted by the endemic twin evil of crime and violence. The abysmal failure of successive administrations in Nigeria to address challenges of poverty, unemployment and inequitable distribution of wealth among ethnic nationalities, ultimately resulted to anger, agitation and violent crimes against the Nigerian state by some individuals and groups. Such crimes include militancy, kidnapping, bombing, armed robbery, destruction of government properties, among others.
Companies are always worried about the size of the potential market for their products or services. But they are more concerned about the proportion of that market that actually buy their products or patronise their services—often referred to as a company's market share. The company with the biggest market share is the market leader, and usually has the highest marketing and distribution cost. They also have the capacity to influence changes in market price. Market challengers are the companies working to increase their share.
A product or service that becomes profitable in the market will always attract new players. As a business trend becomes increasingly popular, more enterprises tend to join the industry, and soon enough, the market becomes saturated. Whatever it is in business that is struggling for competitive advantage, fighting the economic recession or coming across a personal roadblock, it is all about finding the positive perspective of the situation at hand. There is always a new approach to doing business, and to penetrate an already saturated market, you need to do things differently.
The basic necessities of a person are food, shelter and clothing. However after these needs have been provided and provision has been made to ensure there is perpetual availability, the Maslow Law: Hierarchy of Needs takes over.
Basically the Abraham Maslow paper of 1943 says that once the basic needs are settled we shift our focus on making something out of our lives and enriching our existence.
As we move up the ladder of the Maslow’s pinnacle, the definition of ‘necessities’ changes.
