In its avowed bid to sustain The Wole Soyinka prize for Literature in Africa which started in 2006 as a way to encouraging people to read, think and write, Lumina Foundation

Centre for Microenterprise Development (CMD), has called for a holistic overhaul of the model of the micro, small and medium enterprises practice (MSME) in the country.

The Minister of Trade and Investment Dr. Olusegun Aganga has called for more collaboration between the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) and the Federal Ministry of Trade and Investment in order to promote and accelerate sustainable Industrial development in the country.

THE Minister of Transport, Senator Idris Umar has assured that the nation’s railway sector would be fully resuscitated within the next twenty five years to enable Nigeria to compete favourably with the other countries of the world in the area of railway transportation.

Reserve Bank of India has raised its key interest rate by half a percentage point Tuesday, the 11th hike in less than a year and a half, as it warned that inflation remains the country’s main economic concern.

DANGOTE Cement Plc, and Lafarge Cement WAPCO Nigeria Plc will next month, commission two new cement plants with a total grinding capacity of 8.5 million metric tonnes per annum.

Determined to rid the country of touts and hooligans, a non governmental and social service organization, Change-A-Life Foundation, last week unveiled a special scholarship scheme tagged “Adopt-A-Child Project” under its educational scholarship scheme.

ENUGU –based African Institute for Applied Economics (AIAE) has flayed the governors of the South East states for lack of up-to-date information about what investment opportunities exist in their respective states. The South East states comprise Enugu, Ebonyi, Imo, Abia and Anambra.

Education has received a major blow in North-East zone of Nigeria as most schools, led by the University of Maiduguri, in the zone have closed due to escalation in the activities of Boko Haram especially in Maiduguri metropolis.

Prof Epiphany Azinge, SAN, is the Director General of Nigerian Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, NIALS. In this interview, he cautioned the Federal Government to be mindful of how it engages the Boko Haram Islamic sect, so that it (Government) is not perceived to be weak