Banks have facilitated the creation of nothing less than 20,000 jobs and revived 13 grounded agricultural projects through loans to farmers under the Commercial Agricultural Credit Scheme (CACS).

Eight million okada riders in the country are to insure themsleves and their passengers with a paulty premium of N10 per day being coordinated by three insurance companies.

The Minister of Mines and Steel Development, Arc. Mohammed Musa Sada, has told the Bureau for Public Entreprises, BPE, to stay away from the sale of bitumen blocks, pointing out that it was the exclusive preserve of the ministry to allocate or dispense of such natural resources.

The Central Bank of Nigeria has been unusually silent on the widening gap between the official exchange and the Bureau de Change (BDC) rates of the naira to the dollar.

Assets Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON) has appointed new managements and boards for Mainstreet Bank Ltd, Keystone Bank Ltd and Enterprise Bank Ltd, the three bridge banks set up by the Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation (NDIC) to take over the assets and liabilities of Afribank Plc, Bank PHB Plc and Spring Bank Plc.

Professor Ibrahim Gambari, UN Under Secretary-General, has advised the Federal Government to address the Boko Haram crisis with the same zeal deployed in its international peace-keeping operations.

Sao Tome and Principe voted peacefully Sunday in the second round of a presidential election expected to bring former strongman Manuel Pinto da Costa back to power.

President Goodluck Jonathan was sworn in as the Head of State and Commander-in-Chief of the Federal Republic of Nigeria on May 29, this year. By now, one expects that he should have settled down to the serious business of governance. But, rather, the man is still grappling with only just one problem- the challenges of security. Especially that arising from the Boko Haram crisis.

Akwa Ibom State Deputy Governor, Mr. Nsima Ekere, said, weekend, that the days of ethnicity as a determining factor in the politics of the state were over for good as the people had risen above such primordial sentiments.

A Muslim man died on Sunday after setting himself on fire inside a mosque in the French city of Toulouse, local officials said, saying the man was psychologically disturbed.

Friends and associates, weekend, marked the 53rd birthday of the former Governor of Delta State, Chief James Ibori, at his Oghara country home, Ethiope West Local Government Area of the state.

CHEVRON- Registered Itsekiri Procurement Contractors, an association of indigenous contractors registered with the procurement department of Chevron Nigeria Limited, has accused high-ranking employees and officers of the oil company of excluding host community contractors from contract opportunities in Chevron.

Nigeria needed only draw to take first place in the Group D, but not diverging from their typical attacking displays beat Saudi Arabia 2-0 to stamp authority on their fine group campaign and set up a Round of 16 encounter with England. The Saudis, on the other hand, will meet Brazil.

Manchester United underlined their determination to hold off the challenge from title rivals Manchester City as Nani’s last-gasp winner clinched a 3-2 victory in the Community Shield on Sunday.

World leaders and finance chiefs raced Sunday to head off spiralling tension triggered by eurozone debt contagion and a US rating downgrade as the clock ticked on the opening of the markets Monday.