The President of the Senate, Senator David Mark weekend said the solution to Nigeria’s problems of underdevelopment and poverty lies in good governance, peace and stability.

In a bid to boost the second term ambition of Governor Timipre Sylva of Bayelsa State, members of the ‘Credible Sylva Movement’ have agreed to collapsed into the group, ‘Concerned Bayelsans for Timipre Sylva.’

In other words, bank could now keep only 2% of their assets as cash! Serious analysts would consider such accommodation as patently reckless and skating on thin ice, especially in a country with a heavily cash dependent economy; liquidity ratio of banks was similarly inappropriately reduced from 40%… to 25% and government treasury bills holdings were also admitted as a component of liquidity ratio.

FOREMOST Ijaw female activist, Ann Kio Briggs, has called on the Federal Government to demonstrate the necessary political will needed for the amnesty project for militants in the Niger Delta region to succeed.

THE two labour unions in the country, Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, and its counterpart, the Trade Union Congress of Nigeria, TUC, weekend set agenda for Acting President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, urging him to focus on electoral reform, power generation, healthcare, infrastructure and revival of industries, among others.