FirstBank Nigeria Plc has won MoneyGram’s Best African Receiving Agent Award for 2010, thus confirming its leadership in the nation’s financial services industry.

Access to long-term and competitively priced funding, off-taker credit strength as well as loan and security documentation acceptable to international lenders have been identified as some of the key issues which local and international banks will seriously consider when evaluating financing proposals for transactions in Nigeria’s power sector.

The Indigenous Ship Owners Association of Nigeria (ISAN) says Nigeria is losing about two trillion dollars (N300 trillion) in capital flight annually to foreign ship owners operating in Nigerian waters.

The leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Imo State has described the allegation from Action Congress of Nigeria that it wants to rig the forthcoming gubernatorial election as “baseless, diversionary, unchristian and most uncharitable”.

The Catholic Church of Port Harcourt Diocese has banned the illegal celebration of Holy Mass, baptism, wedding, night vigils, special healing masses and administration of the sacraments (giving of communion) in private homes and hostels in the diocese.

TRAGEDY occurred along Benin-Asaba highway, Sunday, when a trailer ran into a stationary passengers’ bus as a result of an alleged break failure, killing one of the passengers instantly while several others were wounded. The accident occurred near Issele-Azagba junction on the Benin-Asaba highway.

The Ogun State Government, Sunday, blasted former President Olusegun Obasanjo over the statement that the state government failed to produce a N1billion counterpart funding for the state’s water project saying that Obasanjo was either being deceived by his aides or he was lying against the government.

Former minister of aviation, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, has congratulated President Goodluck Jonathan and asked the Congress for Progressive Change, CPC, presidential candidate, Major General Muhammadu Buhari, to restrain himself from inciting the country into a civil war.

AS Nigerian Christians troop to the churches today, to mark Easter, the resurrection of Jesus Christ, President Goodluck Jonathan, Senate President, Senator David Mark, ex-Vice-President Atiku Abubakar, Governor Godswill Akpabio and several eminent Christian leaders have again stressed the need for the faithful to be more prayerful to avert a looming danger to the nation’s democracy.

The popularity of the governorship candidate of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), Senator Abiola Ajimobi, spread, yesterday, as a body under the aegis of Oyo State Professionals said he remained the only candidate for the governorship seat of the state.

I HAve often wondered who General Godson Alabi-Isama would have turned out to be if he hadn’t made that spur-of-the-moment decision to enrol into the Nigerian Armed Forces a few months shy of his taking his West African School Certificate Examination (WASCE.)

This is the story of President Goodluck Ebele Azikiwe Jonathan as he prepares to run Nigeria for the next four years with his new mandate. This report attempts to present the man who would rule Nigeria to Nigerians. Beyond the man in public glare, this is an insider’s account of the man, Goodluck Jonathan.

Edo State governor, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, has called on Nigerians to eschew bitterness, recrimination and endeavour to forgive each other in the true spirit of the season of Easter.

Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) President, Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor, shares his perspective on the post-election violence in some parts of the country.

The Nigeria Football Association, NFA has decided to motivate the national U-20 team, Flying Eagles, ahead of their must-win Group B match against Gambia today at the African Youth Championship in South Africa.