The caretak-er management of the eight rescued banks are to manage them for two years. The two-year tenure was announced by the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, after the Bankers’ Committee meeting in Enugu, yesterday.

FEDERATION presidents are the real winners of the crisis that engulfed the Nigeria Olympic Committee, NOC, even as the three wise men, Alhaji Ibrahim Galadima, Rev. Moses Iloh and Chief Olatonkunbo Thomas, have quenched the fire that threatened the foundation of Nigerian Olympic family.

By Gabriel Enogholase BENIN—THE Benin Monarch, Oba Erediauwa, weekend in Benin faulted the statement credited to him that he called for the closure of Benin airport.

THE need for active communities’ participation in budget preparation and implementa-tion, took the front burner last week, as a two-day capacity building workshop was held by non- governmental organisations, Afro Centre for Develop-ment, Peace and Justice (AFRODEP) and the Poverty Alleviation For The Poor Initiative (PAFPI).

WORRIED by his health condition, the Urhobo Political Forum (UPF), weekend, organised a-20 minute prayer session for the quick recovery of President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua.