Some financial analysts on Tuesday urged the Federal Government to stimulate the real sector growth by committing a sizeable part of the N627 billion capital vote in the 2015 budget to critical infrastructure.

A ferry disaster in the Adriatic Sea may have claimed many more lives than the 12 confirmed dead so far Tuesday as an Italian prosecutor said he expected to discover more bodies on the burnt-out wreck.

A Maritime expert, Capt. Fola Ojutalayo, on Tuesday said Nigeria had yet to harness the potential of its ports due to some administrative challenges.

German-born Luise Rainer, the first movie star to win two successive Oscars for best actress, died on Tuesday in London at the age of 104, a friend of the family told newsmen.

Indonesia’s National Search and Rescue Agency chief said Tuesday that just three bodies had been recovered so far in the search for the AirAsia plane which crashed in the Java Sea, after another official said 40 had been found.

The hunt for a missing AirAsia passenger plane appeared over Tuesday as wreckage and dozens of bodies were spotted at sea off Indonesia, prompting raw scenes of emotion from sobbing relatives of the 162 people aboard.

Abuja- President Goodluck Jonathan made tax payments of N6, 264,221.75 to the Federal Inland Revenue Service, (FIRS), out of a total of N43, 230, 871.44 as president between 2011 and 2013.

Gambian soldiers launched a foiled coup bid in the capital Banjul overnight while President Yahya Jammeh was abroad, military and diplomatic sources said Tuesday.

I am not a great fan of the social media by any means. I am shy, in fact, afraid of them. For me, their disadvantage far outweighs the merits. one must therefore be very careful, especially if, like me, you don’t really have a good knowledge of it.

LUCKILY for the Ijaw man who had no shoes but managed by a combination of hard work, a studious mind, the cunningness of a boa constrictor – many thanks to his adept study of zoology – and of course, a large dose of divine intervention which many ignorantly like to pass off as good luck, he is today, arguably, the most powerful man in the black world.

CORPORATE Nigeria, a group that impetuously springs to life for a presidential election, contributed over N21 billion at President Goodluck Jonathan’s recent fund raising. In the 2003 and 2007 elections, Corporate Nigeria raised billions of Naira for Olusegun Obasanjo and Umaru Musa Yar’dua. In October 2010, it raised money for Jonathan before he became a candidate! According to Section 221 of the Constitution, “No association, other than a political party, shall canvass for votes for any candidate at any election or contribute to the funds of any political party or to the election expenses of any candidate at an election.” Corporate Nigeria is not a political party. Could donors at the event be Peoples Democratic Party members, in which case their action could qualify them as acting for a political party? It is unlikely. The secrecy on identity of donors says so.

Lagos State Government yesterday said President Goodluck Jonathan and his vice; Namadi Sambo has ruled the country for four years without any legacy to show, even as it accused Sambo of lacking in facts on the economic viability of the state.

The 2014 fiscal year in the Integrated Marketing Communications, IMC, industry recoded significant success with election and re-election of new helmsmen in different sectoral bodies, with negative reports recorded in two sectors of the industry namely the advertising and manufacturing sectors.

A group of yam farmers cutting across some northern states in the country yesterday pledged to support the All Progressives Congress, APC, presidential candidate, General Mohammadu Buhari’s campaign in the 2015 general elections with N5 billion.

The three tiers of government shared N6.3 trillion as statutory allocations from January to October this year. However, revenue from crude oil into the federation account fell by 3.3 percent to N5.7 trillion during this period, reflecting the impact of the falling price of crude oil.