Since we are so helpless, I need time to go back to my village and consult, ask for that Dele Giwa type scenario where the gods of the land decreed that whosoever killed the ace journalist will run out onto the streets, naked. I want to consult and get assurance that if Akwa United two seasons ago and Zamfara now did fix their matches, soon, very soon, let them come out confessing. I will wait for that to happen.

The three Oceanic Bank employees that have been in police custody since May 28, 2009 were on Friday granted bail by a Yaba Chief Magistrate’s Court in Lagos.

There are investment opportunities in the concession of major transportation infrastructure in the country; the rapidly growing middle class also presents opportunities in the retail banking segment and the bank seems set to play bigger role in these areas, Lucky Fiakpa writes Stanbic IBTC Set for Bigger Role in the Economy

Oando Plc has announced an increase in its Profit After Tax (PAT) for its audited reports for the financial year ended December 31, 2009, with a 52% increase in the Group’s net profit.

He added: “The problem we are having too is that the officials in the Nigerian Embassy here are making matters worse for us. What they do is to collect money individually from our relations before they will go and ask for the release of anyone instead of seeking for the release of all of us like the Kenyan Government and others did.

The work of the Amnesty sub-committee, headed by Okiro, according to the report is to cost “N966,000,000:00, after the deduction of the proposed take-off grant.”

FOR the purpose of this discourse, in pursuance of our goal of celebrating the personages who changed the course of humanity through peaceful protest like Dr. Martin Luther King, Jnr. and because protest is the immediate cause of kidnapping in Nigeria, we shall stay with the political activists who kidnap men, women and children for political reasons, that is the idealists and pseudo- activists.

The Federal government has sealed partnership agreements with ten private real estate developers and investors under a Public-Private Partnership (PPP) arrangement, to deliver 16 housing projects in five states across the country and the federal capital territory (FCT). The beneficiary states are Adamawa, Niger, Osun, Ogun and Ondo.

The value of listed equities on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) appreciated last week by N44.82 billion. This was in spite of the downturn recorded in the market indices for the most part of the week, which saw investors taking advantage of few price gains recorded in the previous weeks to make some profits.

The Federal Government has reaffirmed its commitment to the effective implementation of a land reform scheme as proposed by the Yar-Adua administration within a reasonable time frame.