The difference lies in the presence of a critical mass of entrepreneurs that triggers an entrepreneurial revolution with all its multiplier effect. It is this entrepreneurial spirit that is empowering China, India, along with Russia and the former Soviet satellite countries in Eastern Europe and the Baltic States, to rise above the gravity of years of underemployment.

The Nigeria banking industry is set to enter another era with the appointment of new chief executives by four banks. The banks are Access Bank Plc, Fidelity Bank Plc, Zenith Bank Plc and Skye Bank Plc.

JUST before I picked my pen to write a piece about the recent blast in Abuja, I was greeted with the news that about the 100 or 200 school girls had been abducted in a village in Borno State. It is quite unfortunate that Nigeria’s situation has got to this alarming level where virtually all aspects of life are calling for urgent attention. Nonetheless, the issue of insecurity is the most important as you can seek employment, good roads, electricity and other basic amenities of life, only if you are alive and well. In this vein, my heart goes out to all the victims of the insurgency and their families and I pray that God should bring an end to these inhuman activities.

Ado-Ekiti—EKITI State Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi, has described as unfortunate, comments attributed to Vice President Namadi Sambo that the state is a war front.

BENIN—CRISIS has en-gulfed the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Etsako federal constituency, made up of Etsako West, Etsako Central and Etsako East Local Government Areas of Edo State, with a call by aggrieved party leaders in the area on Governor Adams Oshiomhole to cancel the outcome of the recent congresses within 14 days or they would be forced to defect to other political parties.

Leader of Niger Delta Peoples Volunteer Force, Alhaji Asari Dokubo, has described Boko Haram as a political movement set up to cow Christians in the North against voting for President Goodluck Jonathan in the 2015 general elections.

The African Development Bank (AfDB) has created a N1 billion fund to support climate change projects in African countries.

IN its bid to stamp out illegal bunkering from the Niger Delta region, the Joint Military Task Force, JTF, has set a Mitsubishi Gallant saloon car, loaded with substance suspected to be locally refined petroleum product ablaze and apprehended two persons for allegedly indulging in illegal oil bunkering.

What is your reaction to Governor Nyako’s assertion that the Federal Government is culpable over the spate of crisis in the North?

Ado-Ekiti—Teachers in Ekiti state have been assured that their glory allegedly trampled on by the Ekiti State All Progressives Congress, APC-led government will be restored.