The Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, has accredited two companies – Superflux International Ltd and Tripple Gee and Company Plc as authorised printers of cheques and other security paper instruments, thereby delisting 13 firms with the exclusion of foreign printing firms.

The management of Mutual Benefits Assurance Plc have lauded the introduction of the ‘no premium, no cover’ policy by the National Insurance Commission, NAICOM, saying that it will impact positively on the insurance sector.

Messrs. Olumide Thompson and Aniche Phil-Ebosie are two young Nigerians who left juicy positions in the corporate world to follow their passion in renewable energy and waste management because according to the duo, renewable energy is the future. They came together to establish Midori Environmental Solutions, a Lagos-based environmental company which focuses on transforming waste to value. They spoke with Financial Vanguard in Lagos recently

MEMBER, Board of Trustees of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Chief Gordon Bozimo, has expressed the hope that the party will resolve the political differences between Governor Chibuike Amaechi of Rivers State and his erstwhile Chief of Staff, Government House and now Minister of State for Education, Mr. Nyesom Wike.

iii) If Ojukwu had not continued to hound Major Nzeogwu and his men where Ironsi stopped, because both of them were jealous of the towering popularity of Nzeogwu and his men, Ojukwu should have given Nzeogwu a fighting unit to command in the Civil War. A pamphlet ‘The Revolution: Heroes of Change The Life and Times of Major Kaduna Nzeogwu & Who Killed Him’ by Prof. Tom Forsyth, published by Ivory Tower Publishers, Atlanta Georgia USA, said “Another strange rumour about Nzeogwu’s death, has it that although he died in the battle field, the bullet that killed him wasn’t from the enemies, but from own soldiers who were detailed to kill him … “OJUKWU’S REACTION TO COMPLICITY IN NZEOGWU’S DEATH …

In the light of government’s reticence to our persistent recommendation for the adoption of dollar certificates for the payment of distributable dollar-derived revenue, a regular reader of this column has suggested reasons why certain stakeholders would oppose the proposition to fundamentally alter the payment system and thereby lift the irrepressible perennial burden of surplus cash and its attendant adverse collaterals such as inflation, high cost of funds, rising national debt, weaker exchange rate, rising unemployment, N2000bn annual fuel subsidy and deepening poverty nationwide!

National economies run on power and it is no longer news that low power output has been the major constraint militating against Nigeria achieving double-digit gross domestic productivity, GDP, growth. For a country whose publicly generated power had been less than 5,000 MW for decades, it is a minor miracle that we have consistently achieved close to 7 per cent GDP growth for about five years in a row.

Alliance, APGA but was edged out in the power tussle that rocked the party in its early days. Upon his exit he helped in founding the Citizens Peoples Party, CPP. Okwu who for some years ran the CPP has, however, lately re-emerged to claim leadership of APGA having been elected national chairman in a controversial national convention last month. In a session with newsmen in Lagos, Okwu asserts his claim to the party’s top office and why his rival for the office of national chairman and his friend in his own words, Chief Victor Umeh, would not let go.

FORMER Senate Chief Whip, Senator Rowland Owie, has described the re-election of Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor as President of Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, as good omen for the country.

MEMBERS of the Association of Nigerian Authors, ANA, academic gurus and public servants yesterday in Awka held what was tagged ‘A day with Achebe’ during which they reflected on the writings of the late literary giant, Professor Chinua Achebe, who died in the United States of America, USA, early this year.