The sack of five managing directors of commercial banks is making investors and asset managers to sit up in the microfinance sub-sector, Amaka Agwuegbo reports

GOVERNOR Emmanuel Uduaghan of Delta State, at the weekend, averted the brewing crisis between the Ijaw and Itsekiri ethnic groups in Warri South West Local Government Area over the recent attacks on boat passengers on the waterways of the state by sea pirates.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has dispatched 100 operatives and 2 Mobile Police units to arrest all loan defaulters that did not meet the 7 days deadline given by the agency last week Tuesday.

THE Presidency Monday rose in strong defence of the new reform initiated by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) for the country’s banking sectors; declaring that the ongoing reforms is aimed at salvaging the sector from imminent collapse, and not to promote so-called northern agenda as perceived in some quarters.

JOS -  Dealers in coffins and caskets in Jos metropolis said they were ready to comply with a directive by the state government to stop displaying their wares on the street. The Plateau House of Assembly, penultimate Thursday, passed a resolution calling on the state government to relocate coffins manufacturers and sellers in Jos and […]

Gusau – Governor Mahmud Shinkafi of Zamfara, yesterday, said the state government had given various items and financial support to about 11,000 orphans and less-privileged persons in Zamfara as Ramadan welfare package. Shinkafi spoke in Gusau while flagging-off the distribution exercise in Gusau, weekend. He said the gesture was aimed at consoling vulnerable groups and […]

Jos – The Plateau State Commissioner for Education, Prof. Angela Miri said, yesterday, that Governor Jonah Jang’s administration has banned street begging in the state. Miri told newsmen in an interview in Abuja that the governor has ensured that the practice, which allowed children of school age to go about begging in the streets in […]

Kano – Scores of youths in Kano have now resorted to manual car washing to survive the current economic crunch.

THERE was a mild drama towards the end of a town hall meeting at Agbor weekend, as majority of the participants chorused that Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan should drag indigenous contractors who failed to perform after collecting mobilization fee before the anti-graft agency, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for prosecution.

By Anayo Okoli Aba – Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) has advised the leadership of the various militants groups in the Niger Delta region against accepting amnesty granted them by the Federal Government, saying that it was deceitful. MASSOB said that if the amnesty is extended to them, it […]