Oil rose more than $1 to trade above $74 a barrel on Friday as data in the United States promised economic recovery and a potential revival in energy demand. Home sales data for July showed recovery in the U.S. housing market, while Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said that the global economy appears to be […]

AGAINST the backdrop of Central Bank of Nigeria’s publication of names of debtors of mismanaged banks and the call for them to pay up their debts, the Group Managing Director of CLEMCO Group, Mr. Tony Okonkwo, has advised CBN’s new helmsman to tidy up the processes before gong public to avoid damaging statements that could lead to dispute.

Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State, weekend, underwent a diagnostic check at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH), Ikeja, just as he urged Nigerians to use facilities available in the country for treatment instead of seeking such treatments abroad.

Clergymen have been advised to live examplary life by pursuing things of the spirit rather than material things.
The advice was given by the Rt. Rev. Nathaniel N. Inyom, the Bishop of Makurdi, during the consecration of two bishops at the Cathedral Church of St Jude of The Church of Nigeria, Anglican Communion, Ebute Metta, Lagos, Sunday.

ALHAJI Sagir Mohammed, a Jigawa born former military intelligent officer, leader of defunct Arewa People congress (APC) and a stalwart of PDP, spoke with Vanguard over the lingering crisis in Niger/Delta and why amnesty will not solve the problem in the region: Excerpts: