IN Nigeria today, nobody could imagine financing any project on a single digit interest rate, but Toyota Nigeria Limited, sole representatives of Toyota Motor Corporation in Nigeria has proved otherwise.

Chevron Nigeria Limited, CNL, has begun the process of drilling a relief well to seal the shallow water Funiwa 1A natural gas well. The relief well is being drilled to extinguish a fire that began since January 16, at the original well approximately six miles (10 km) off the coast of Nigeria.

Tafawa Balewa, a local government in Bauchi State, is located about 83 kilometres away from Bauchi metropolis on its southern part and majority of the inhabitants in that town are Jarawa, Fulani, Hausa, Sayawa, kanuri,Tapshinawa (angas) and other tribes. The town has been a hot-bed of communal crises that have lingered for over 50 years.

Less than a month after an Ikeja Magistrate, in Lagos, ordered policemen to beat up journalists covering a matter in her court, a Cele, Ijesa, Magistrate in Lagos, yesterday, barred journalists from covering a matter in her court.

The minerals and mining sector in Nigeria appears to be getting a lot of attention at the moment, especially from ‘big money’ international investors, which is truly a decent reward after more than a decade of government’s battle to reform and restructure the industry.