What prospects for the non-oil export?
Apparently, advanced countries today invest tangibly in their export sub-sectors to enhance optimum economic growth and development. In that capacity, they put infrastructure in place to drive the export sector, even as they provide incentives to get exporters to stay afloat. While Nigeria is not alien to export trades, there are challenges facing local exporters. Such challenges include lack of adequate funds to finance the business and abandonment of legitimate claims, which bring adverse consequence on the nation’s economy in different ways.
NSE moves N2.18 blln worth of shares
A total of 474.14 million shares valued at N2.18 billion were traded in 5,219 deals on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) on Friday.
COMMUNAL CLASH: Two feared dead, houses burnt in Anambra
THE lingering communal crisis between Owerre Ezukala and Ogbunka communities both in Orumba South Local Government Area of Anambra State yesterday took a violent dimension when two people were killed, while about eight houses were burnt down.
About eleven people sustained injuries during the clash.
Okorocha threatens to dethrone partisan monarchs
Imo State Governor, Chief Rochas Okorocha, has warned that he would not hesitate to dethrone any recognized traditional ruler in the state found to be engaging in partisan politics or residing away from his domain.
Politician re-assures on socio-economic devt
A LEADING politician and technocrat from the South east, Senator Ebenezer Ikeyina has declared that Nigeria ’s moment of hope of being transformed into an economic and political giant in Africa has truly come.
Mike Awoyinfa & Dimgba Igwe: Our journey, our story, our regrets
After a pioneering role they played at the now rested Weekend Concord newspaper where they distinguished themselves as journalists par excellence and lately, The Sun newspapers, Mike Awoyinfa and his friend, Dimgba Igwe are set to record another landmark in the Nigerian media with the establishment of a newspaper entirely devoted to reporting the entertainment industry called Entertainment
Bankole’s brother in court over visa scam
The absence of Mr Adedotun Akinmade, the counsel to Toyin Bankole, on Friday stalled his ongoing trial over alleged visa scam at an Abeokuta Chief Magistrates’ Court.
Passionate kisses are good for you!
Kissing offers many health benefits but may also transmit a small number of disease-causing bacteria and viruses. Bacteria and viruses in the saliva or blood of one person can be spread to another person by kissing.
More military presence in FCT – Ihejirika
Chief of Army Staff, Lt. General Onyeabor Ihejirika disclosed yesterday that the huge number in the deployment of heavily armed troops in and around Abuja was not occasioned by fears of another bomb attack akin to the one witnessed at the Police Force headquarters, but a necessary security measure aimed at protecting lives and property.
I know my daughter, those are her children – 75yr old father
Anthony Achonye, 75, father of Mrs Precious Donatus Ogbonna who earlier spoke with Saturday Vanguard when our correspondent visited Owerri said he knows his daughter and she has given him 7 grandchildren.
time for action
There are those who might feel, perhaps to a justifiable extent, that the stance of President Goodluck Jonathan to state affairs does not appear manly enough. They feel that he seems to be rather laid-back and somewhat subdued on some of the occasions that he might have appeared more vibrant and assertive. They wonder why he gives the impression of what Americans would casually characterize as a “wimp”.
