The role of secondary financial services providers as catalyst for economic growth and development cannot be over emphasized in the present cashless policy scheme.

The seventh edition of the National School Sports Festival (NSSF) would hold in Otukpo, Benue, from Nov. 6 to Nov. 16, an official said on Sunday in Abuja.

The Nigerian Academy of Science says that it is collaborating with the Federal Government in the fight against Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) in the country.

Five hundred and fifty-eight youths in Lagos State have benefitted from the free monthly Information and Communications Technology, ICT, training programme since its inception in 2011.

The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, was weekend, taken to the cleaners for pressing for the elongation of lecturers’ retirement age to 70.

GOVERNOR Willie Obiano of Anambra State has pledged to work closely with other governors in the South East geo-political zone to promote Igbo agenda to fast–track development in the area.

Chairman, Senate Committee on Aviation, Senator Hope Uzodinma, has urged Igbos to re-elect President Goodluck Jonathan in 2015, saying the President had shown an uncommon leadership to revamp the nation’s economy and deepen democracy through respect for the rule of law and adherence to the provisions of the constitution.

Progressive Peoples Alliance, PPA, has lent its voices to business mogul, Chief Arthur Eze, in disapproving the governance style of Governor Theodore Orji of Abia State, saying the state was doomed because of Orji’s betrayal of trust and mandate.

The leadership of the Believers Love World popularly known as Christ Embassy, has said that only prayers can stop the doomsday predictions of violence and bloodbath over the 2015 general elections.

NATIONAL Chairman of All Progressives Congress, APC, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, weekend, in Ilorin Kwara State, insisted that APC remained the only party that could return the country to the path of greatness.