The Lagos Empowerment and Resource Network- LEARN has revealed plans to set up six mini libraries in six educational centers across Lagos state so as to enable participants of its annual summer school programme enhance their knowledge and carry out research.

In the face of growing acts of terrorism in the country, insurance practitioners are now seeing individuals whose source of wealth and acquisition cannot be easily verified as high risk clients.

Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN and some banks in the country have constituted a committee for the design of sustainable lending principles for the banking industry, aimed at environmental protection, social well-being and economic prosperity.

The Nigerian naira weakened against the U.S dollar on the inter-bank market on Monday as strong demand for the greenback from bureaux de change operators put pressure on the local currency, traders said. The local currency closed at 155.45 to the dollar on the interbank market compared to 155.20 per dollar on Friday.

OPerators of the Code Division Multiple Access, CDMA, may still achieve their aim of competing favourably with the Global system for Mobile communications, GSM services providers, otherwise known in Nigeria as the major operators.

Leading manufacturer of dairy food products, FrieslandCampina WAMCO Nigeria PLC, last week launched a new extant of its popular milk product – Peak Extra Fortified Plus into the market.

Journalists covering the 10th All Africa Games here in Maputo have not been having it easy as organisers continue to demonstrate a very high level of incompetence.

ABUJA- A report yesterday revealed that, in absolute poverty, the North East, North West and North Central has retained the poorest geo-political zones in Nigeria since 1985.

Governor Patrick Yakowa marked his 100 days in office penultimate Monday amid fanfare at Kaduna State Government House and gave himself high marks on enthroning law and order in the state among other things he had done.

THE second African Zonal Leadership Conference of The Apostolic Church kicked-off in Lagos, Tuesday, with a charge to African leaders to fashion a way out of the growing terrorist threats in the continent

Worried by due process breaches attending the acquisition of 200-hectares of farmland in six Ogoni communities, the Social and Economic Action Centre, SERAC, Ogoni Solidarity Forum, OSF, and Ogoni Civil Society Platform, OCSP, have called on the Federal Government to prevail on the Rivers State Governor, Rotimi Amechi and the state Ministry of Agriculture to urgently cease all ongoing survey, plants’ destruction, intrusion into privately-owned farmland as well as seizure of the said farm lands in Ogoni land.

YOBE State celebrated 100 days of Governor Gaidam’s second tenure with a sober reflection as the Governor, Alhaji Ibrahim Gaidam was on a lesser Hajj in Saudi Arabia and the usual ceremony which accompany such occasions was missing.

BENIN—Edo State Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Tuesday, called on the state government to pay compensation to those whose houses were destroyed illegally in the state capital.

NIGERIA’s multi-faceted socio-political problems may continue unabated if its leaders continue to neglect the importance of systemic gathering and organization of information, otherwise called Information Technology, IT.

The National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, has urged the immediate relocations of communities from floodplains and those that built houses on waterways as four states in Nigeria prepare for impending heavy rainfall based on recent flood alert.