Foreign exchange demand and the interbank lending rate rose slightly on Monday, even as the naira recorded mixed performance.

The Managing Director of Lift Above Poverty Organization (LAPO) Microfinance Bank Limited, Mr. Godwin Ehigiamusoe, has called for adequate empowerment of microfinance bank (MFB) operators for them to be able to deliver responsive and affordable financial services that would boost public image of the sector.

Building Entrepreneurs Today”, a programme sponsored by Diamond Bank in partnership with the Enterprise Development Service (EDS) of Lagos Business School, the Pan – African University, to train and support the development of entrepreneurship in the country has entered phase two.

Shell Petroleum Development Company has raised alarm over the spate of vandalization of its pipelines in the Niger Delta region, to the effect that 22 spills of pipeline vandalism has been recorded between January and February this year.

Lagos, March 8, 2011 (NAN) Obisia Nwankpa, Head Coach, Nigeria Boxing Federation (NBF), has said that there is nothing wrong in taking a large contingent to the All Africa Games (AAG) in Mozambique.

The Federal Government, yesterday, re-arraigned an Iranian, Azim Aghajami and his alleged Nigerian collaborator, Ali Abbas Usman Jega, before a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, on a fresh four-count charge of importation into Nigeria without license, a consignment, a 13X 20 feet container loaded with firearms and ammunition, an offence prohibited under section 18 of the Firearms Act Cap F28 Laws of the Federation of Nigeria 2004 and Miscellaneous Offence Acts Cap M17, Laws of the Federation 2004.

YOLA – As President Goodluck Jonathan arrives Adamawa Wednesday in continuation of his nationwide campaign tour, the State Police Command has warned mischief makers to stay off Yola during and after the visit. The police command also warned politicians, political parties and their supporters to ensure they maintained the peace or face the wrath of the […]

House of Representatives Speaker Bankole has dispelled media reports credited to Wikileaks that he alleged that Supreme Court justices were bribed to validate the Yar’Adua/Jonathan election in 2007.

LEADERS of Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, have boasted that they would win 15 governorship seats in April polls, given the performance of ACN governors and level of political footwork and engineering they have made

-Eleven students were part of the casualties in the bomb blast that rocked the PDP rally in Suleja last Thursday out of which one of them eventually died.

FOR the Libyan leader Muammar Ghaddafi pride went before a fall. When in the middle of February Egyptian youths decided to send their long time leader, Hosni Mubarak, packing Ghaddafi, it was, came out to say he felt sorry for Mubarak.

THE National Judicial Council, NJC, yesterday, summoned the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Aloysius Katsina-Alu and President of the Court of Appeal, Justice Ayo Salami, to appear before it tomorrow following barrage of petitions alleging that they were at various times involved in judicial misconduct.

Ogun State governor, Otunba Gbenga Daniel has explained the circumstances surrounding his decision to remain in the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, citing the bonding of friendship with President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan as his driving motif, at a time when candidates on the platform of his faction of the PDP have defected to the Peoples Party of Nigeria, PPN.

PRESIDENT Goodluck Johnathan, said yesterday, that neither his ambition nor that of any politician was worth the blood of any single Nigerian.

THE leadership of Maritime Workers Union of Nigeria, MWUN, yesterday directed total shut down of all ports operations nationwide today over refusal of terminal operators to review upward the wages of dockworkers since the subsisting condition of service elapsed in June 2010.