An industrialist, Mr. Ajulu Uzodike, has decried the failure of governments to create the environment conducive to the growth of private businesses.

An Abuja High Court on Thursday granted the request of the EFCC to arraign Herman Hembe, the former Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Capital Market and Other Financial Institutions.

Benin – Talents discovered at the ongoing two-day South-South U-18 boxing championships in Benin, will be harnessed for future competitions, according to Yemi Usikaye, the coordinator, National Sports Commission, South-South Zone 1.

OPEC revised its 2012 world oil demand outlook slightly upwards on Thursday citing a stable US economy and the shutdown of nuclear plants in Japan, which boosted demand.

Suspected Muslim herdsmen have hacked and shot to death seven sleeping family members at a Christian village in the volatile central Plateau state, officials said Thursday.

Sixteen persons and nine vehicles have been declared missing in Abia between January and May 2012.

THE quest to produce a president of Igbo extraction has become a common feature in the build up to every Nigerian election season, and the year 2015 is not expected to be any different. Already, there have been calls by notable Igbos on the need for the South East political zone to produce the next President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

Senator Iyiola Omisore, former Chairman Senate Committee on Appropriation, has sued the Global Media Ltd., publisher of the National Mirror for N1 billion for alleged libel.

Students of Abia State University, Uturu, have appealed to Gov. Theodore Orji to intervene in the new fees regime introduced by the institution.

Erstwhile Managing Director of defunct Bank PHB, Mr Francis Atuche, has urged the House of Representatives to compel CBN to return the nationalised banks— Main Street Bank, Enterprise Bank, and Keystone Bank — to their original owners, if the country earnestly desires to re-build the confidence of investors in the nation’s capital market.