AS the governor of Akwa Ibom State, Chief Godswill Akpabio, holds a town hall meeting with Ikot Abasi federal constituency, Wednesday, the Village Head of Ikot Akpan Udo in Ukpum Ete clan, Eteidung Oscar Abel, yesterday, urged the governor to rebuild the community that was devastated by the Amazaba militants of Eastern Obolo Local Government Area in August 2008.

The Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN has threatened to sanction banks over the rising incidence of frauds through Automated Teller Machines (ATMs).

THE eight years of Chief Peter Obi’s regime as the governor of Anambra State comes to an end today, with his formal hand-over to Chief Willie Obiano.

THE Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics, ASUP, decried the growing political tension in the country warning politicians not to endanger the unity of the country.

An experienced ophthalmic surgeon, and Chief Medical Director, Eye Foundation Hospital, Lagos, Dr. Adekunle Hassan, speaks to SOLA OGUNDIPE on the Eye Restoration Intervention Scheme, EYERIS, an initiative of the MTN Foundation to reach an estimated 33,364 underprivileged Nigerians.

The Director General of the Securities and Exchange Commission, SEC Aruma Oteh has identified disparities in financial access, asset/land ownership, income, access to education and poor representation in decision making positions as the greatest threat to women entrepreneurs.

The Managing Director of Heritage Bank Plc, Mr. Ifie Sekibo, has said that inability to employ strategies that will make their businesses attractive to banks rather than finance is the major problem of small and medium enterprises in the country.

The traditional ruler of Ipupe community in Ubalaka Umuahia South Local Government of Abia State, Eze Chima Ubiaru and his brother, Patrick Ubiaru, a soldier, have been docked before an Abia State High Court sitting in Umuahia over alleged misappropria-tion of N40 million.

CHIEF Samuel Olu Falae is a former Secretary to the Federal Government and also the joint presidential candidate of the All People’s Party, APP and the Alliance for Democracy, AD in 1999.

Enhancing Financial Innovation & Access (EFInA) has said that awareness and usage of mobile money in Nigeria is still very low.

Arco Marine and Oilfield Services Limited, a subsidiary of Arco Petrochemical Engineering Company Plc has called on the Federal Government to step up efforts against resistance to the local content law.

STRONG indications emerged yesterday that President Goodluck Jonathan may soon commence a probe into the tenure of immediate past governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Mallam Lamido Sanusi Lamido.

A pro-Jonathan group, the Nigerians Project for Goodluck Jonathan, NPGJ, has said that the arrest and continued detention of its founder and national coordinator, Chief Michael Johnny, over unproven allegations of threat to the life of Chief Government Ekpemupolo, aka Tompolo, was political and anti-Jonathan’s re-election.

Following the ongoing transformation in agriculture and the Federal Government’s Agricultural Transformation Agenda, the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development , Dr. Akinwumi Adesina said that Nigerian farmers will soon generate N42 billion from wheat production.

OUTRAGED by weekend’s tragedy which claimed at least 16 job applicants, including four pregnant women who turned up for the aptitude test for employment into the Nigeria Immigration Service at various centres across the federation, National Human Rights Commission Chairman and 54 other eminent Nigerians as well as labour unions, yesterday, called for the resignation of the Minister of Interior, Mr. Abba Moro and Comptroller General of Immigration, Mr David Parradang.