THE only thing standing between 14-month-old Temiloluwa Ojebode and a happy healthy life, is N2.5 million to undergo a crucial corrective heart surgery in an Indian hospital.

“The first thing I have to say is that we have a central bank that is autonomous and it is the best practice to make these decisions. We may not be happy about it and I am bold to say we are not happy about high interest rates! As I said before, it is tough for our entrepreneurs to function. Even before the withdrawal of this liquidity, they were already charging over 20% interest rates and I think that is alarming. …we need to interrogate why. Structurally, what is the issue? And we are not willing to ask our banks that question.

AS the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, holds its primaries today to select governorship candidate for the November 16 election, stakeholders from Anambra North have been holding crucial meetings to evolve ways of ensuring that the zone secured the ticket.

Nigeria has recorded reduction of reported cases of the wild polio virus, WPV, even as Rotary International says insecurity in the northern part of the country is responsible for the slow progress of the eradication drive.

The Chairman, Sub-Committee on Railway Subsidy Reinvestment Empowerment Programme, SURE-P, Chike Okogwu, said weekend that the committee had expended N32 billion on railway projects.