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The wide array of support services Nigeria’s Japaul Oil & Maritime Services Plc provides to the country’s energy and mining sectors, which fall into five broad categories: oil and gas services, marine and logistic support services, dredging and reclamation works, offshore vessel chartering, and road transportation and logistical services. Group Managing Director Paul Jegede tells World Report about how legislation in the mining sector is taking shape, Japaul’s pride in its operational safety and security record, the culture of shared aspirations at the company, and the management’s insistence on integrity when it comes to joint ventures.

Stephen Olabisi Onasanya, Group Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of First Bank of Nigeria talks to World Report about Nigeria’s financial sector and the investment opportunities – particularly in infrastructure and agriculture – that abound in the West African nation “that has the potential to outpace every other country within the developing world.”

Ravil Zaripov, Tatarstan's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Industry and Trade, speaks to Upper Reach about the country's vast array of opportunities for foreign investment and its push to raise IT and advanced technology levels in its industries.

Holding a quarter of Mongolia’s telecom market and the largest CDMA 3G network in the country, Skytel Group is one of the industry’s leaders and going to great lengths to get Mongolians connected. In an interview with World Report, CEO D Bolor discusses the country’s rapidly expanding ICT sector, Skytel’s emphasis on rolling out new technology, its heightened customer service, ingrained CSR ethos, and the company’s mission to deliver smart products and services to every corner of the country.

Wole Abegunde, Managing Director of Meristem Securities Ltd, a four-part investment banking group that seeks to add value and create wealth for its clients, discusses with World Report what is on the horizon in Nigeria’s financial sector and the importance of having a strong research department and market analyses to produce accurate, valuable information.

Having pioneered a one-stop approach to logistics services for Nigeria’s oil and gas industry, Intels Nigeria Ltd. has become the logistical leader in providing key support services to the country’s most important sector. Managing Director Simone Volpi discusses Intels’ plans to take the industry forward, how the port and free zone at Onne have the edge over rival installations, and the government rubber stamping a new, $500m phase of development at Onne.

Dr. Bernd van Linder, the Managing Director of Saudi Hollandi Bank, the first banking franchise in Saudi Arabia, discusses growth prospects for the banking sector and projects the bank is engaged in at the moment.

Goldman Sachs included Bangladesh in its list of Next 11 (N-11) countries to follow the BRICs in leading world growth, and foreign investors are moving their production bases and ICT centres to Bangladesh in ever-greater numbers

Active in agri-business, energy and hospitality, Transcorp creates synergies and provides an ideal platform for talented individuals to flourish and businesses to grow. World Report meets with Obinna Ufudo, the company’s President and CEO

Neven Mimica, Croatia’s Deputy Prime Minister of Home, Foreign and European Affairs, discusses the country’s preparations for its imminent membership of the EU, the ongoing development of a privatisation strategy, and how the pro-union government is encouraging an economic framework that would be favourable for new investment, whether it be foreign, domestic, public or private. He points out that by taking the accession process seriously, they have proved “at a European and national level, we are able to effectively enforce legislation, and fulfil social and economic trends that fit the core of the EU processes.”