President Goodluck Jonathan, weekend, insisted that there would be no third phase in the ongoing post-amnesty programme.

This came as another set of 214 ex-militants departed the shores of the country for vocational training in India.

CHIEF of Mission of the International Organisation for Migration, IOM, Mr. Martin Ocaga, has expressed IOM’s readiness to partner with Nigeria to facilitate a coherent migration management approach among targeted ECOWAS member-states through an assessment of national labour migration management, by promoting legal migration and preventing irregular migration through information provision.

Last week when investors on the Nigerian Stock Exchange were taking in the bad news that the All-Share Index, ASI, had reached its lowest level in eight years, the Council of the NSE made what was supposed to be a re-assuring announcement.

Across the developed world, access to financial services is largely at ones’ fingertips; there is an abundance of cash and credit on demand, from multiple channels, any locations, and 24 hours a day. But, this story is very different in the developing countries like Nigeria is still high as findings have shown that the number of households without access to financial services in Nigeria remains high.

In a bid to beat the December 2012 deadline set for their transition to the International Financial Reporting Standard (IFRS), insurance companies are individually coughing out over N10 million as consultancy charge to consultants which they have engaged to assist them in their transition to the new reporting format.

Governor Babatunde Raji Fashola, last week, expressed concern over the country’s huge dependence on oil resources for its revenue generation.

I RECALL clearly my first meeting with Mr. Alex Ibru. It was in June of 1983. After months of prodding from Dr. Stanley Macebuh to join the nascent team of The Guardian, I accepted his offer to visit the premises of the organisation at Rutam House.

LAMENTATIONS about poverty are becoming rituals that issue from most gatherings of the North’s leadership.

Fortunately, enough voices within the North blame the region for failing to use 38 years of leading national governments to develop the North. Governor Aliyu Babangida of Niger State shifts the blame to traditional rulers, who he said discourage education.

ENUGU- The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Sunday cleared all the 17 chairmanship seats and 259 out of 260 councillorship seats in Saturday’s council polls with most of the opposition parties backed out, while the All Progressive Grand Alliance, APGA, won the remaining one councillorship position.

Guinness Nigeria Plc, one of the foremost brewing companies and a significant player in the manufacturing sector of the Nigerian economy, has announced its official sponsorship of Carnival Calabar.

Our dear nation needs and deserve peace and stability if we are to match the expectation of becoming a global nation of, and for development.”

States and Local Governments in the country have been alleged to be the biggest albatross of the contributory pension scheme powered by the Pension Reform Act 2004.

Most businesses need access to outside funds, some continuously and others for parts of an annual or trading cycle. In advanced countries, businesses rely heavily on the banking industry to provide these crucial funds, likewise in Nigeria, and will continue to do so.

Nigerian housewives know too well, that sinking feeling when all items on the household shopping list cannot be covered by the regular budget. Our womenfolk have since become past masters (or mistresses) of the rigours of creative adjustment.

CHEVRON created community development interventionist organ for the Itsekiri oil bearing communities in Delta State, Itsekiri Regional Development Council, IRDC, has made a businessman and Niger Delta activist, Mr. Ayiri Emami its new Chairman.