NYSC, NUC partner to tackle menace of fake corps members
The National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, yesterday, said it would collaborate with the National Universities Commission, NUC, to checkmate incidence of fake corps members in the country.
The partnership, Vanguard gathered, will also improve the quality of graduates coming out of the Corps Producing Institutions, CPIs, for mobilization for the one year mandatory national service programme.
‘Monetary policy to pose challenges to capital market activity in 2014’
Uncertainty around monetary policy following the appointment of a new Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN Governor and Policy Committee (MPC) will pose challenges to the performance of the capital market in 2014, says the Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian Stock Exchange, NSE, Mr. Oscar Onyema.
NSE awaits SEC’s approval on rules for operating Investor Protection Fund
The Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE), Mr. Oscar Onyema, has said Investor Protection Fund (IPF) would commence as soon the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) approves the rules .
Wrestlers throng Rowe Park for Wrestlemania
Professional wrestlers across the country and some neighbouring African countries will tonight throng the Mobolaji Johnson Sports Complex, Rowe Park, Yaba, Lagos as the third edition of BRF Wrestlemania begin
In Ondo, PDP is the opposition — Akintade
CHAIRMAN, Odua Investment Company and leader of the Labour Party (LP) in Ondo State Chief Isaac Akintade (JP) is a seasoned banker and successful business man. With a first degree and Masters in Economics, he has held or currently holds such appointments as director, Ekinmogun Micro finance Bank and director Owena Oil & Gas Limited just to mention a few. A member of the American Institution of Banking, Washington DC, he presently represents Ondo State on the Board of Odua Investment Company Ltd. In this chat on his home turf, Chief Akintade examines the state of the politics in the state vis-à-vis the state of the opposition in the country at large with a long range view to 2015.
Cassava farmers, processors task FG on N4.3bn cassava bread fund
Nigeria is said to produce more cassava than any other country in the world. It is the third most important source of calories in the tropics, after rice and maize. Millions of people depend on cassava in Nigeria and Africa in general.
Cassava is grown by poor farmers, many of them women, often on marginal land. For those people and their families, cassava is vital for both food security and income generation.
