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Infoplus Business Services (IBG Nigeria) in collaboration with Nigeria Brazil Centre for Business plan a business mission to four cities in Brazil namely Rio de Janeiro, Porto Allegre, Minas Gerais and Sao Paulo for May 24-31, 2015. The choice of Brazil is timely as Nigeria grapples with the reality of falling oil price, rising unemployment and increasing rate of poverty and as the Federal Government continues in its efforts to re-jig its key sectors especially agriculture, a country like Brazil comes in handy. Brazil has been nicknamed the food basket of the world and has earned global recognition as a result of its agricultural technology for tropical weather, heavy investment in innovation and sophisticated service industry among others that qualified its membership in the BRICS countries. Its model of sustainable development based on robust economic growth with income distribution, social inclusion and job creation has transformed the country into an economic powerhouse...

CLOSING REMARKS ON THE OCCASION OF THE SEMINAR ON DOING BUSINESS IN ISRAEL, HELD IN LAGOS, NIGERIA ON JULY 18, 2013 Greetings! I feel humbled to be called upon to give the closing remarks on this August occasion on “Doing Business in Israel” put together by the Nigeria Israel Chamber of Commerce and Infoplus Business Information Services. Israel has been described by one of the speakers as a mission, practical and focused with know-how, new concepts and set of skills that have transformed its economy, whereby once desert areas have been transformed into agricultural fields; and the country able to feed itself and to export! As a matter of fact, Israel’s capacity for innovation has been identified as its main strength such that insecurity and other significant adverse conditions have not fazed the citizens of this great country from digging deep into research and development. The World Economic Forum recently issued its Global Competitiveness Report for 2012-13 which indica...

Have you heard? Melbourne has vaulted Vancouver to become the best city in the world to live, according to the latest Economist Intelligence Unit’s Global Liveability Survey. Country City Top 10 Australia Melbourne Austria Vienna Canada Vancouver Canada Toronto Canada Calgary Australia Sydney Finland Helsinki Australia Perth Australia Adelaide New Zealand Auckland Bottom 10 Cote d'Ivoire Abidjan Iran Tehran Cameroon Douala Pakistan Karachi Libya Tripoli Algeria Algiers Nigeria Lagos PNG Port Moresby Bangladesh Dhaka Zimbabwe Harare A liveable city is one that is pleasant to live in, fun to spend time in and creates a desire to invest. In these economic hard times and dwindling federal government allocations, good liveable indices put a city ahead of the comp...