The Sokoto State University was commissioned yesterday in an atmosphere that was coloured with thick political undertones. The event was witnessed by leaders of the All Progressive Congress, APC and the new Peoples Democratic Party, nPDP who had former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar and four of the G7 governors present besides the factional PDP national chairman, Alhaji Kawu Baraje.

Dangote Group has emerged among Africa’s top 10 most valuable brands in 2013, according to a survey conducted by Business Magazine, a pan-African business magazine.

A stalwart of All Progressives Congress, APC, in Oredo Local Government Area of Edo State, Mr. Moses Idahosa, yesterday, described as wicked and misleading, a report in the social media that he raped one Joan Nwadike in Benin City.

Former Head of State and Head of Interim Government, Chief Ernest Shonekan has decried the low capacity of insurance operators to underwrite special risks despite the huge number of brokers in the country.

International Commerce Management Limited (ICML), a United Kingdom-based global private equity firm and GTI Capital Group, a Nigerian financial services group, are making plans to explore ways to boost market making and liquidity in the Nigerian capital market.

Igbo leaders yesterday gave reasons why Nigeria has continued to stagnate both politically and economically, saying that ‘’no one builds a super structure on a faulty’’foundation.

That most Nigerians not only crave to own and drive choice automobiles, but give top priority, above all other basic essential needs of life is no exaggeration.

THE Director General of Small and Medium Enterprises Development Agency of Nigeria, SMEDAN, Bature Masari, has said that Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises MSMEs contributes 46.54 percent to Nigeria’s Gross Domestic Product, GDP.

The African business community is adopting the use of mobile devices very rapidly. This is the main conclusion drawn from the survey conducted by the Africa Business Panel, involving about 1,776 African business professionals.

Irate Ijaw youths, yesterday, barricaded the Mbiama section of the East-West Road connecting Bayelsa State, in protest over the outcome of the Ijaw Youth Council, IYC, worldwide election held in Yenagoa.