Minister of Police Affairs, Alhaji Abdul Jelili Adesiyan, has described as laughable and unthinkable, the claim by TNS-RMS, a research firm, that APC candidate, Rauf Aregbesola was being backed by 73% of Osun voters.

As the battle for the control of Nigerian football rages, the camp of the impeached president of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), Alhaji Aminu Maigari may have settled for a member of the League Management Company (LMC), Mallam Shehu Dikko as an alternative candidate should Maigari lose out of the contest.

BENIN — Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State’s pardon for the 936 teachers, who falsified their age, has no political bearing as reported in the media, but “a show of courage and leadership,” a media aide to the governor has said.

The Federal Government has launched the first 10,000 Affordable Housing Mortgage Scheme under the Nigerian Housing Finance Programme in an effort to help bridge the housing deficit in the country.

The Executive Director of the group, calling itself, The Environmental Rights Action/friends of the Earth Nigeria, Dr Godwin Uyi Ojo, was reported to have said that, “We, as civil society groups and as community members, are disappointed in the National Assembly for playing politics with peoples lives. The PIB has been on the desk of our lawmakers since 2009 and another lawmaking session is coming to an end. Yet, the passage of this bill appears not in sight.

Governor Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso of Kano State, yesterday, accused President Goodluck Jonathan of running a government based on ethnic sentiment and religious bigotry.

Financial Services firm, Rosabon Financial Services Limited has identified financial planning as a critical ingredient for the smooth operations of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs).

The regular readers of “Economic Renaissance” will already be very familiar with our strident unceasing advocacy that a simple reform of our payments system will positively transform the economic and social welfare of our people beyond the faltering expectations of the current managers of our economy.

THE Nigeria Immigration Service, NIS, has made use of hand gloves and face masks mandatory by its staff at all ports of entry into the country, to avoid bodily contact with in-coming passengers in compliance with the directive of the Federal Ministry of Health for avoiding Ebola Virus infection.

As the Ebola virus scare continues to rage in Nigeria, the people of Imo State have been advised to move all suspected cases of the dreaded virus to the infectious disease units at Imo State University Teaching Hospital, Orlu; Federal Medical Centre, Owerri, and Imo Specialist Hospital, Owerri.

Mr. Shelu Abu is the Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of Ikorodu, Lagos-based Shelu Farms, a farm that is into plantain and catfish farming. In this chat with Financial Vanguard in Ikorodu, Shelu speaks on the new model technology in plantain farming and says that plantain farming is very lucrative. He calls on government to bring back the Bank of Agriculture

Diamond Bank has recorded nine percent increase in its profit after tax for the first half (H1) of the 2014 operating year. The half year unaudited result of the bank released to the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) show that profit after tax (PAT) rose to N13.8 billion, from N12.6 billion in the same period of last year.

A COLLEAGUE asked me recently while discussing the subject if I believed in the existence and powers of witches and wizards.

LAGOS—Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State and Chairmen of the 20 Local Government Areas, LGAs, and 37 Local Council Development Areas, LCDAs, have stressed the need for collective efforts to address the current economic woes and other challenges confronting the country.

Former Director, Nigerian Institute of Journalism, NIJ, Chief Dayo Duyile, has called on journalists to give female politicians equal coverage as their male counterparts.