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Nigeria: 'Time to Harmonise Africa's Business Laws'

The Nigerian Bar Association's Section on Business Law SBL has continued to challenge itself in terms of breaking new frontiers in business law conferencing.

Its mission is to make Nigeria the hub of business law in Africa. Its annual business law conference at the Transcorp Hilton Hotel, Abuja, the 3rd in its series, begins today. This year's conference is witnessing additional sessions, especially on OHADA, a French acronym for the Organisation for the Harmonisation of Business Laws in Africa, and Islamic Business Law. JUDE IGBANOI met with Akin Akinbote, former Chairman of NBA Lagos Branch who is fluent in French and who is coordinating the session on OHADA and Femi Sunmonu, the coordinator and driving force behind the Islamic Business Law session and they spoke on what their sessions hold for Nigerian lawyers

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Business sampler: 'Drive-by' management style doesn't work

In the coaching world, I often work with new business owners who were successful corporate executives or managers and have now decided to set out on their own. Billy (not his/her real name) is one such client. Billy had perfected the art of the drive-by in the corporate world; the nasty little habit was costing him sales.

The drive-by as used in corporate culture is as devastating and ugly as anything you would read about in the police files. It is that quick, staccato, machine-gunlike burst from the boss as she hurries by to meet with someone, apparently much more important than you. Examples: "Where is that report?" "Do you have the forecast for the quarterly report?" "What can we do to make it better?" "Oh, how are the kids -- you do have kids, right?" The successful executive then speeds off to the next appointment, leaving the victim wondering which question to answer and when. more

Small business role in creating jobs

The headline sounds great: small businesses are California's job creators.

What does that mean for the state, for policy makers, for our communities, and for small businesses themselves?

It's Your Business asked UC Irvine economist David Neumark, who is the most recent to connect the state's small businesses to job growth.

His study, "Do Small Businesses Create More Jobs" with Brandon Wall of Stanford and Junfu Zhang of Clark University, was just published.

In the past, Neumark, who is also a senior fellow at the Public Policy Institute of California in San Francisco, has researched the impact of increasing the minimum wage and whether companies are moving out of California.

The new study wades knee-deep into a long-running controversy among scholars about where new jobs really come from. more

Farmers 2 Mobile Catastrophe Claims Buses (Photo: Business Wire)

21/03/2008 21:00:00 Business Wire Farmers Insurance Group of Companies and Zurich Financial Services will display their new state-of-the-art Mobile Catastrophe Claims buses (MCC s), and 10 of their fleet of 35 Customer Care Vehicles (CCV s) in and around the New Orleans TPC golf course during the Zurich Classic, designed and built based on lessons learned from hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
"The mobile units enable the Farmers Catastrophe Corps to respond immediately and effectively and are the center-point for handling claims and servicing customers," explained Farmers CEO, Paul N.
Hopkins.
"The buses and customer care vehicles have the most state-of-the-art equipment available anywhere in the United States." MEDIA NOTE: Anyone interested in an exclusive tour of the MCC and CCV, or interview, please call Jerry Davies at 213-400-4459 or Mark Toohey at 805-907-2216. more

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