ABAKALIKI – EBONYI Ministry of Education, weekend, closed down over 17 illegal and substandard schools in Abakaliki and neighbouring areas.

FOLLOWING the incessant attacks of vessels on Nigeria’s waters, the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA, has proposed a draft bill on Piracy and Other Unlawful Acts at Sea aimed at combating piracy and robbery.

ENUGU—South-East and South-South leaders of All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, yesterday, re-affirmed their confidence in the National Working Committee of the party under Chief Victor Umeh and Alhaji Sani Shinkafi, National Chairman and Secretary respectively.

Many people do not insure their homes built with millions of naira, and in the case of the businessmen among them, the business premises are largely uninsured. It thus became important to further help the industry, which is why the industry regulator, National Insurance Commission introduced the Market Development and Restructuring Initiative.

A recent collection of essays on entrepreneurial innovation in developing economies, titled ‘Lessons from the Poor’, mentions an aspect of Nigerian clothing design. Examining the traditional adire dye industry, author Thompson Ayodele informs that the bottom 19% of entrepreneurs polled for the study earned more than state and federal civil servants.