The Bank of Agriculture has set aside N25 billion to fund farmers and other operators in the agri-business sub-sector in the next two years.

LAGOS — NIGERIANS in the United Kingdom, will hold a memorial service and cultural reception for late literary icon, Professor Chinua Achebe on May 18 in London as part of global farewell activities for the literary legend.

At the end of the 2013 Spring Meetings of World Bank Group/IMF, world financial leaders avowed to two specific global agenda. First, a historic opportunity to end extreme poverty within a generation, the global target of reducing extreme poverty rate, the number of people living on less than $1.25 a day to three per cent by 2030.

Shareholders of Sterling Bank Plc, at the 51 annual general meeting in Lagos, authorised the Board and management of the bank to raise fresh capital amounting to N56.2 billion from the capital market.

Experts in the nation’s housing sector have called on the Federal Government to channel the huge funds lying in bank vaults, in the form of unclaimed dividends, dormant accounts, and accumulated premiums from pension schemes, among others, to the development of mass housing schemes across the country.

About 1.5 million vehicle insurance policies have been uploaded to the Nigerian Insurance Industry Database, NIID, the Director General of the Nigerian Insurers Association, NIA, Sunday Thomas, has said.

With the introduction of “SME Online” by global payment solutions company, Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in the country will now enjoy Internet payment solution.

The President of the Nigeria Olympic Committee, NOC, Engr. Sani M. Ndanusa has congratulated Mr Mitchell Obi on his election as President of AIPS Africa and Vice President of the world body of sports journalists in far away Sochi, Russia.

A COMPREHENSIVE six-year plan to end polio through strengthening immunisation systems and vaccinating one billion children has been presented by the Global Polio Eradication Initiative, GPEI.

THE moment the Sultan called for amnesty for Boko Haram, I knew Nigeria was headed for bigger trouble. It was a major shifting of grounds by His Eminence, Mohammed Abubakar Sa’ad III, the Sultan of Sokoto and the head of the Nigerian Muslim community. His earlier stance in public forums both in Nigeria and abroad was that the sect was evil, and their mission un-Islamic, with strong support for the security forces to decision them accordingly.

The U.S. Foreign Direct Investment flow into Nigeria has increased from $5.2 billion in 2000 to $8 billion dollars in 2012. The Nigeria Ambassador to the U.S, Prof. Ade Adefuye, made this known during a presentation on investment promotion strategies at the regional seminar for Heads of Missions in the Americas held in New York.

Former Chairman of the Nigeria Premier League, Victor Rumson Baribote has disclosed that he was removed from office because he refused to endorse the sack of Coach Samson Siasia as handler of the national team.

The Federal Government is yet to pay up the balance of N2 billion Group Life premium it is owing insurers for last year, according to the Nigerian Council of Registered Insurance Brokers, NCRIB.

Nigeria must address security issues to enhance its chance to grow trade volume as the wide range of reforms across the economy is prompting investors to take a fresh look at the country.

NIGERIANS from all walks of life have continued to express shock at the sudden death of ace columnist, Chief Pini Jason Onyegbaduo, Saturday morning, with former Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, describing it as “another haemorrhage of distinguished professionals that has befallen the country at large and journalism in particular.”