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Report Highlights: Nigeria's agricultural development is constrained by the lack of access to credit for the predominantly smallholder farmers. Efforts by successive governments to address the problem have been largely unsuccessful. Commercial banks in the country perceive agricultural finance t [Read more]

Report Highlights: Nigeria's domestic production of soybeans is trending upwards, but still lags behind the rapidly growing demand from the poultry industry for soy meal and vegetable oil processors. This supply deficit resulted in the increase in the price of soybean meal within ten months, rea [Read more]

Report Highlights: Nigeria's rice imports have increased largely because imported parboiled rice competes with other basic food staples. The decision of Government of Nigeria (GON) to ban rice imports through its land borders has somehow reduced cross-border smuggling. Furthermore, rice importer [Read more]

Report Highlights: After several years of discussion and debate, the Nigeria Senate passed the Biosafety Bill into law on June 1, 2011. The passage of the law demonstrates that the country is prepared to receive, regulate and most importantly, commercialize biotechnology products. The law leans heav [Read more]

Report Highlights: Average wine consumption per capita jumped from 0.1 liters to more than 0.4 liters within 2004 and 2010. Still wine (red and white) category led the market accounting for a share of more than 80 percent. Local wine processing is underdeveloped and high-cost. Nigeria's large an [Read more]

Report Highlights: Total food and agricultural imports are estimated to reach $4.0 billion by end of 2011 from about $3.7 billion in 2010. Wheat from the U.S. accounts for more than 20% of Nigeria's total food and agricultural total imports. Exports of other U.S. agricultural products such as ta [Read more]

I use a top-ten list format for all my speeches, and I would love to begin this book with a top-ten list of the most important things an entrepreneur must accomplish. However, there aren't ten there are only five, Great Ideas for Starting Things Make Meaning. The best reason to start an [Read more]

I’m dissatisfied. Even more so… I am disturbed, and you should be as well. Today we live in a business culture that abuses the art and science of public speaking everyday. We power up our PCs (Macs, if we’re lucky) and present poorly prepared and hideously designed presentation [Read more]

For the past five years, I’ve been working hard in preparation for writing another book. As part of my research, I’ve read literally hundreds of books, articles, and research papers on the key strategies of the world’s top companies—many of which, I am honored to say, are cur [Read more]

Think the current business climate is temporary, and that things will eventually get back to normal? Well, you ain't seen nothing yet! - The death of whole industries, global pandemics, the actions by one individual that affect the whole (think one terrorist with a small nuke in New York), the e [Read more]