Any one conversant with the economic landscape of the eastern part of Nigeria cannot help but be struck by the rapid de-industrialisation of the area in the past twenty years or so, which to a large extent reflects the story of Nigeria in recent times.

BY YINKA KOLAWOLE Federal Mortgage Bank of Nigeria (FMBN) is set to adopt pro-active measures aimed at enhancing recovery of loans from its clients. Chairman, FMBN, Chief Bisi Ogunjobi, said at the end of a retreat and stakeholders’ forum recently organised by the bank in Abuja, that the loan recovery drive is part of the […]

Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State has approved the appointment of Mrs. Josephine Oluseyi Williams as the 17th Head of Service, HoS.

Miss Folakemi Akinbode, the National Youths Service Corps, NYSC member whose hand was almost chopped off in a brutal attack by suspected hoodlums in August at Okolobiri in the outskirt of Yenagoa, BayelsaState capital, has been flown abroad for further treatment by the state government.

NORMAL activities continued at the Lord’s Chosen Charismatic Revival Ministry headquarters, Sunday, despite its closure by the Lagos State Ministry of Environment for environmental offences.

Chairman, Troyka Group, Mr. Biodun Shobanjo, has charged his colleagues in the advertising profession to take on the mindset that Nigeria can be represented in the profession at the global stage.

Thousands of holiday makers travelling to Osun, Kwara, Kogi and some other parts of the country have besieged the Iddo Terminus of the Nigerian Railway Corporation as the free Eid-il Kabir festival free train ride provided by the government of Osun State entered its second day in Lagos.

A three-year-old girl and her elder sister, identified as Abla, lost their lives in a fire that gutted their 8, Odofin Close, Ikotun, apartment, leaving their father with severe burns.

CHAIRMAN of Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, Ughelli North Local Government Area, Delta State, Rt. Rev Diamond Emuobor, has urged the Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor-led national executive of the association to brace up for the full representation of the Christian community in the forthcoming national conference.

SIXTEEN days after he was abducted by kidnappers, on his way to Ekpoma from Benin City, Justice Daniel Okungbowa of the Edo State High Court, has regained his freedom in the early hours of Sunday.