I HOLD an alternative view to Senator Emmanuel Onwe’s elegant piece entitled: “Igbos Cannot Produce a President with Five States published on January 8, 2013. It is my considered verdict, not opinion that a president of Igbo extraction cannot emerge in 2015. It’s glaringly obvious that the political conditions necessary for such a grand achievement are absent at the moment. The vice presidency is the only feasible route through which an Igbo person could ascend the presidency by or before 2023. And that is my contention in this essay.

OUR attention has been drawn to the recent NBS report postulating that Sokoto State is the poorest state in Nigeria. This is even further ridiculed with the assertion that it ‘retained’ its position.

Impressive performances on the share prices of United Bank for Africa Plc (UBA), Forte Oil Plc and fifty other equities drove up the total market capitalisation of equities listed on the Nigeria Stock Exchange, NSE by N128.22 billion last week.

Subscribers of the Minanuel Estate formally located along Airport Road in Abuja, recently demolished by the Federal Capital Territory Administration(FCTA), said the federal government should prove its commitment to housing development in the country, by ordering the resettlement of the affected subscribers who invested millions of Naira to acquire the property.

Over 2,000 dry season rice farmers in Niger state have been given 50 kilogramme of improved rice seeds and three bags of fertilisers free of charge as a way of achieving self-sufficiency in rice production in the country.

In the quest to boost the development of social housing in Nigeria, the Federal Housing Authority (FHA) has embarked on the acquisition of lands across the country.

Access Bank recently organised a Stakeholders Awareness Forum to enlighten its customers and other stakeholder groups on the Central Bank of Nigeria’s directives to Deposit Money Banks in Nigeria and other financial institutions on additional Know Your Customer (KYC) requirements for Designated Non-Financial Businesses and Professions (DNFBPs).

The Nigerian Council of Registered Insurance Brokers, NCRIB, is set to send the list of genuine broking firms to clients as a measure of checking activities of fake operators, its President Mrs. Laide Osijo, has said.

Sequel to the perceived decline in the standard of legal education in the country, the Nigerian Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, NIALS, Sunday, released a list of top 10 law faculties in Nigerian universities.

BENIN CITY- International Project Management Professionals, IPMP, has dragged the management of Project Management Professional Institute, PMPI, before a Federal High Court sitting in Benin, Edo State, over alleged infringement of trade name.

Federal Capital Territory (FCT) is to return all land allocations seized from the Federal Housing Authority (FHA) by previous administrations in the territory to the Authority.

Less than one week to the kick off of the 29th Africa Cup of Nations in South Africa, soccer exponent and President of Goldashe United All Stars of Port Harcourt, Mr. Fubara Kingsley Hart has pledged to throw the gate of the recreational outfit open to members of the public to avail them the opportunity of watching the Super Eagles matches live on television.

Manchester United went 10 points clear at the top of the Premier League, for a few hours at least, after a 2-1 win over Liverpool at Old Trafford on Sunday.

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has granted licence to Kano State Government to establish 37 micro-finance banks in the state.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC will tomorrow arraign the Deputy Speaker of Kaduna State House of Assembly, Hon. Mato Dary Dogara before a Federal High Court, Kaduna.