PRESIDENT of the Senate, Senator David Mark, yesterday, buckled under pressure after 74 senators declared their support for a motion calling on President Umaru Yar‘Adua to step down from office.

Bayelsa State students in Russia and Belarus have again called on the federal government and well meaning Nigerians to prevail on Chief Timipre Sylva’s administration to settle their allowances to enable them conclude their studies.

I’d been separated from my husband for almost three years and I often masturbate with a sex toy. But for the last years, I’ve found it impossible to climax and it hurts whenever I try the toy. What can I do to make it work for me again as I don’t want to sleep around. My best friend put it down to stress.

PORT HARCOURT— SIXTY women, last Saturday, benefited from the second phase of ESI Lady Cabbies scheme initiated by the Empowerment Support Initiative (ESI), a non- governmental organization (NGO), founded by the wife of Rivers State governor, Dame Judith Amaechi.

Pepsi, official sponsor of the African Cup of Nations going on in Angola, has urged Nigerians to continue with their support and prayers as the Senior National Team, the Super Eagles confront the Black Stars of Ghana on Thursday in the semi-final of the CAN Angola 2010 Championship.

Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has said that mobile payment system will take off in the country by middle of the year.Acting Director, Banking Operations, Mr. Abayomi Atoloye, said this at a workshop on mobile payment regulatory framework dissemination organised by Enhancing Financial Innovation and Access (EFInA) in Lagos yesterday.

After some poor showing in their semi final clash with Zambia, Nigeria needed a penalty shoot-out to cruise into the semifinal of the ongoing Nations Cup. They won 5-4.

The Nigerian insurance industry has continued to wax stronger as the sector recorded 49.33 percent growth with a total premium income of N150,259,567 excluding reinsurance premium. In year 2007, the total industry gross premium income was over N100billion.

The Minister of Finance, Mr Remi Bablola has said that the N100 million capital base for insurance brokers is mere speculation.
Babalola dispelled the rumours about the proposed increase in the capital base of insurance brokers to N100 million while receiving the delegation of the Nigerian Council of Registered Insurance Brokers led by its President, Dr Teslim Sanusi in Abuja recently.

The Institute of Risk Management (IRM) in collaboration with the Risk and Insurance Managers Society of Nigeria will be certifying managers after a two-day intensive training scheduled for March in Lagos.

The Board of Zenith Bank PLC, yester-day, named Godwin Emefiele as the Managing Director/Chief Executive designate following Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) directive that banks whose chief executives have served 10 years and above should draw up a succession plan and leave the banking scene at the end of July 2010.

First Bank of Nigeria PLC is to achieve prominence in all its business segment with the aim of becoming the bank of first choice for majority of Nigerians.

GOVERNOR Olugbenga Daniel of Ogun State today expressed shock and utter revulsion on the brutal killing of the Action Congress gubernatorial candidate in the April, 2007 polls, Otunba Dipo Dina.

HUNDREDS of Action Congress (AC) loyalists today thronged the Ijebu-Ode, country home of the Governorship candidate in the 2007 polls, Otunba Dipo Dina who was killed Monday evening by unknown gunmen just as more details of how he was brutally murdered began to emerge.

Attending social functions accompanied with one’s spouse in African traditional setting is an expression of love, maturity and reckoning. But sometimes, it’s not in the best interest of either of the party invited, especially when one of the couple in question is more familiar with the guests than the other. Indeed, such scenarios, have oftentimes led to misunderstanding between couples, either at the venue or on their way home.