OWERRI – President Goodluck Jonathan has charged universities to fully identify with the high expectations, hopes and aspirations of the ever growing population of Nigeria.

Anxiety has engulfed the family of the Medical Director, General Hospital Umuguma, Dr. Moses Amako, who was kidnapped last Thursday by armed hoodlums as he was driving home from work.

It is clear that CBN’s current monetary framework has expectedly failed to induce price stability, which is its core mandate, as per the 2007 CBN Act. It is clear that an MPR of 12% is relatively very high, and would predictably instigate high double-digit lending rates; that cannot stimulate economic growth.

ABAKALIKI – ANTI-corruption and Transparency Monitoring Unit of the National Board for Technical Education, ACTU-NBTE, weekend, called on rectors of federal polytechnics across the country to ensure that a functional anti-corruption monitoring team or unit was established in their institutions.

FOR referring to what they described as false claim by Folio Communication that the case on the sale of The Daily Times of Nigeria Plc, DTN, was still in court, ex-workers of the newspaper conglomerate are poised for a battle with Senate President, Senator David Mark.

Nigerians living abroad are estimated to have remitted home N1.727 trillion ($11 billion), the highest for any African country, says a World Bank report.

There were many things Nigerian groups did not know about one another as the fight for independence raged in the 1950’s. One of them was our peculiar diversity.

Pension Fund operators have demanded for interest subsidy and Federal Government’s guarantee as conditions for investing the nation’s N2.4 trillion assets in infrastructure.

The declining trend in the capital market worsened further last week, as investors’ holding in the Nigerian Stock Exchange, NSE, dipped by N49.97 billion.

Bank Directors Association of Nigeria (BDAN) has elected Chairman of Ecobank, Olorogun Dr. Sonny F. Kuku (OFR), to lead the association as president for the next two years.

The Emir of Dutse, Alhaji Mohammed Sanusi gave an unexpected piece of advice to Nigerians last Tuesday. Nigerians, he said, should invest in their future to prepare for the kind of economic crisis going on in Europe.

Rivers State Government has explained that it is putting appropriate infrastructure in place in order to attract both foreign and local investors to set up productive entities that will engender growth and development of the state and the economy in general.

As part of efforts to ensure that retirees enjoy a comfortable retirement, pension operators in the country are set to prevent insurance companies with relatively low capital base from providing annuity for retirees.

The Qatar 2022 World Cup Supreme Committee has started the process of distributing all ticketing proceeds from the international friendly match (Brazil v Egypt – November 14 2011) held in Doha last month to famine victims in Somalia. This is coming on the anniversary of Qatar’s successful bid to host the World Cup in 2022.

The Nigerian local personal computers (PCs) whose market is shrinking by the day as a result of demand for foreign brands, are expected to benefit from IT intervention currently being pushed by the Nigerian Computer Society (NCS).