THE Nigerian Association of Small Scale Industrialists (NASSI) has gone into an agreement with the National Economic Reconstruction Fund (NERFUND) for the funding of projects for its members.
While Nigerians were busy celebrating the Christmas, upcoming act, Raoul John Njeng-Njeng, a.k.a, Skales, was thanking God for saving him from an accident which almost claimed his life.
Immediate past Governor of Ekiti State, Chief Segun Oni, has described claim by the Dr. Kayode Fayemi-led Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, government in the State that the newly commissioned House of Assembly Complex was abandoned by his government as untrue.
Like they say, ‘the honeymoon is over in the Etisalat sponsored Nigerian Idol. The final 30 contestants that will vie for the ultimate Nigerian Idol crown have been selected and beginning from this weekend, they will be showing the judges and viewers the stuff they are made of that qualifies them to become the next Nigerian Idol.
IT was Niyi Ajao, Acting Managing Director/Chief Executive, Nigeria Interbank Settlement System that posed the above question to participants at a one day seminar on the Cash-less Lagos initiative scheduled to take off 72 hours from today.
One of the 30 home-based players invited to the Eagles camp, Julius Ubilo has said that if given the chance by Coach Stephen Keshi that they were capable of doing better than their over-hyped foreign-based professionals.
The Presidency, said, yesterday, that the spate of bombings in the country by the militant Muslim group, Boko Haram, was to provoke the Christian community and drag them into a religious war.
Some operators in the insurance sector have called on their colleagues to desist from mixing up the funds from their regular business with funds from the annuity business, noting that such act is unprofessional.
FOR some time now, the problem of insecurity which used to be one of the lowest in the hierarchy of social problems facing this country seems to have assumed alarming proportions since the end of the Nigerian civil war which ended in 1970.
It was another hilarious day, at Thursday morning training of home based Super Eagles at the training pitch of the Abuja National Stadium, following the presence of another ‘unknown player’ from the blues, pleading to be allowed to train with the national team.
Those who had tears generously poured it out as hundreds of athletes, friends and fans were united in grief at the National Stadium yesterday as they paid their last respects to late Sunday Bada who laid-in- state on the very National stadium tracks, which brought him local and international fame.
Delta State Governor, Dr Emmanuel Uduaghan, yesterday hinged the future greatness of the country on youths who were prepared to be self-reliant and hardworking.
The Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, has extended the deadline for sanctions on cashless Lagos implementation to March 30, 2012, to give people time to migrate to electronic channels and experience the infrastructure put in place.
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