Bank customers have questioned the rationale behind the new policy of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) on categorisation of bank accounts, saying it is counter-productive with respect to its cashless initiative.

IT was a show of intimidation, weekend, when members of the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, some suspected Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, thugs and the police clashed in a market square in Izzi Local Government Area of Ebonyi State.

…Honours Beko Ransome-Kuti
SEVEN years after late human rights activist, Dr. Bekolari Ransome-Kuti passed on, most of the ideals he fought and died for have not been achieved, National Leader of the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has said.

ILORIN—Speaker, Kwara State House of Assembly, Abdulrazaq Atunwa, has said that democracy cannot thrive in Nigeria unless the state assemblies are granted financial autonomy.

Group Chief Executive Officer of the AP Moller-Maersk Group, Mr. Nils Andersen, last week performed the groundbreaking ceremony for the N20.9 billion ($135 million) terminal yard redevelopment and expansion of the largest container terminal in West Africa, the APM Terminals Apapa.

Pandemonium broke out, weekend, when some people believed to be land speculators invaded Adunbu village in Ewekoro Local Government Area of Ogun State and chased all the residents, including the village head, away before they seized the village.

Nigeria is a country of paradoxes and contradictions. These contradictions are being inflicted on the nation by politicians in uniform and those in flowing gowns through half-baked policies. Most of these policies, once they favour the ruling class, become self perpetuating.

Barely five days after the alleged gruesome murder of Nsukka-based human right crusader and politician, Christopher Ejike Onah at his Agbani Nguru Nsukka residence by unknown men in the university town of Nsukka, Enugu state, the chairman, Nsukka Local Government, Mr. Tony Okechi Ugwu bared his mind on the security situation in the town.

Some experts in the built environment have called for the pooling of idle funds in the nation’s economy to provide low interest mortgage financing, as a possible way of enhancing home ownership in Nigeria and thus reducing the huge housing deficit in the country.

AHEAD of the April 20, local government elections in Edo State, there are indications that opposition political parties in the state may boycott the polls.