The mortgage rate regime when the Nigerian Mortgage Refinance Company (NMRC) eventually becomes operational will depend substantially on prevailing monetary policy rates.

FSDH Merchant Bank Limited has announced a profit after tax of N2.62 billion for the 2013 financial year.

Liverpool striker Luis Suarez won England’s Professional Footballers’ Association’s Player of the Year award on Sunday.

CONSIDERING the achievements of Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan, the debate in Delta State now is who succeeds him. The 1999 Constitution limits the tenure of Governors and President to two terms of four years each. So by 2015, Uduaghan must vacate office in obedience to the constitution.

The annual conference and awards ceremony by LEADERSHIP Conferences Limited a subsidiary of LEADERSHIP Group, earlier scheduled for Tuesday, May 6, has been postponed.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned anew on Sunday of a nuclear-powered Iran at the annual Holocaust memorial for the victims of the Nazi genocide, saying Tehran wants “our destruction”.

Nigeria striker Obafemi Martins has won the MLS Week 7 Goal of the Week.

American music superstar, Stevie Wonder, is among the top stars expected in Nigeria for the country’s leg of the Nelson Mandela Commonwealth Nations and America Unifying Wrestling Championship, which will also hold in South Africa, the United States and Britain.

Nigeria women 4x400m squad have staked a claim for a medal at up coming World Relays Championships next month in Nassau, Bahamas when they ran 3.27.16 seconds to place second behind the United States at last weekend’s Penn Relays in Philadelphia, USA.

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has called on those in charge of the country’s affairs, led by President Goodluck Jonathan, to hold themselves to higher standards of conduct as a way of ensuring good governance and winning global respect for the country.

Clashes between rival tribes have left at least 34 people dead with homes and barns torched in a village in central Nigeria, the state government told AFP on Sunday.

Vice President Mohammed Namadi Sambo’s brother Capt. Yusuf Sabo Sambo has died.

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has called on countries to restrict movement of infected soil and planting materials into and out of farms, as the world’s most destructive banana diseases, Fusarium wilt TR4, is spreading from Asia to Africa and the Middle East.

AN editor of a national newspaper, last week, threatened to wage media war against electric power distribution companies in the country. Reason: Power supply has been so irregular in his area of Lagos that for 30 days, power was ‘flashed’ for only a couple of minutes while electricity bills remained high.

“Nigerian GDP at purchasing power parity has almost tripled from $170 billion to $451 billion ib 2012,”. CIA World Fact Book.