Concerned Igbo leaders of Thought, led by Professor Ben Nwabueze have thrown their support behind the call to subject the outcome of the proposed national conference to a referendum before it could form the new constitution of Nigeria.

Facts have emerged on why the international watchdog and standard bearer on Financial Intelligence Units’ compliance with anti-money laundering and terrorism, the Egmont Group of FIUs withdrew Nigeria’s FIU access to the Egmont Secured Web. It said it is due to its lack of commitment to fight money laundering and terrorism.

GOVERNOR Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State, weekend, warned that Nigerians might revolt against leaders sooner than later, if government continued to pay lip service to the issue of corruption.

Director-General of Center for Democratic Governance in Africa, CDGA, Dr. Dafe Akpocha, has condemned calls for the immediate resignation or removal of the Chairman, Presidential Amnesty Committee and Special Adviser to the president on Niger Delta Affairs, Mr. Kingsley Kuku, saying the call was malicious and undemocratic.

All over the world, organisations in both private and public sectors draw budget to attain specific goals and objectives.

While budgeting in the private sector is market driven, and profit oriented, the contrary is the case in the public sector.

The Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises, under the auspices of Association of Micro Entrepreneurs of Nigeria (AMEN), has decried its inability to participate at 2013 Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS trade fair, held in Togo, blaming it on finance. Recall that the association was selected by the Nigeria Export Promotion Council, NEPC to represent the country. Speaking at a business forum/ inauguration of AMEN Cooperative, President AMEN, Prince Saviour Iche, described the ongoing submission of business proposals to the Bank of Industry (BOI) through SMEDAN as a welcome development, saying, “ but our members may not be able to access the fund due to stringent requirements and conditions attached to it. We are proposing to meet the management for the way forward.

ALL Progressives Congress, APC, Edo State chapter, has challenge Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to publish the names of the 3,500 persons purportedly employed so far in Edo State under the Subsidy Reinvestment and Empowerment Programme, SURE-P.

An Abuja-based contractor, Akin Olusina, has been arraigned before an Abuja Chief Magistrate Court over allegations of breach of trust and cheating by issuing a dud cheque to his landlord, Chineme Ume-Ezeoke.

WATCHING the reports and tributes pouring out from CNN and other global media, I was overwhelmed by the huge impact, a simple philosophy of ‘ humility and forgiveness’ can have on the human race. It was so touching, to capture the noble traits of a man, who did not allow the circumstances of his birth and background, diminish his greatness.

Merger is defined as “any amalgamation of the undertakings or any part of the undertakings or interest of two or more companies or the undertakings or part of the undertakings of one or more companies and one or more bodies corporate”. Simply put, a merger is a combination or integration of existing companies to form a single company.

Supersand Eagles yesterday defeated Senegal 5-2 to win the 2013 Copa Lagos Beach Soccer Championships in Eko Atlantic.

President Goodluck Jonathan, yesterday, warned those opposed to his administration, including former political allies trading allegations of his sponsorship of a terror squad that they were treading the path of treason.

Pope Francis said he knew a lot of “good” Marxists but was no communist himself, following criticism of his diatribes against unfettered capitalism from conservative commentators in the United States.

THE National Human Rights Commission, NHRC, has stepped into a case of alleged duping of a house wife, Mrs. Maryrose Okeke Ozude, by Pastor Samson Otis of Rhema Deliverance Ministry, Abagana in Anambra State.

Songs, speeches, military parade and the booms of 21 gun salute rented the air, yesterday, as anti-apartheid hero, Nelson Mandela, took his resting place in Qunu, to mark an end to 95 years of struggle for freedom and dignity of black man in South Africa.