Eko Hotel & Suits, Victoria  Island, Lagos will  this  Friday  be agog with activities  as BusinessWorld, a leading business weekly in the country officially presents  awards to  the Nigerian companies that came tops  in the performance ranking of  top 100 quoted  companies in Nigeria as contained in 2011 edition  of BusinessWorld  100  publication.
The award, which  is part of BusinessWorld’s  mission to contribute meaningfully to  the economic development of the country by encouraging entrepreneurship and high  performance in the various sectors of the nation’s economy, is  to  celebrate companies that scaled through  the rigorous assessment employed by the newspaper to identify companies  that are making great impact in the  current quest to return the nation’s economy to growth  in their various  sectors.
The corporate leaders are  First Bank Plc, the Largest Company in Nigeria; Dangote Group, The Most Profitable Company in Nigeria; Julius Berger Plc, The Highest Employer of Labour; Oando Plc, The Highest Revenue Earner; Zenith Bank Plc, The Most Capitalised Company in Nigeria and Dangote Cement, The Most Valuable Company in Nigeria.
Sectorial Leaders  are First Bank Plc for  the banking sector, AIICO Insurance Plc, for the insurance sector, Oando Plc for the oil and gas sector and Dangote Cement Plc which clinched  the award for the manufacturing  sector.
Senator  Gbenga  Obadara, a Senator of the Federal  Republic of Nigeria  is  the chairman of the occasion while Professor Dora Akunyili, former information and communications minister is  the guest speaker.