The fearsome “Jurassic Park” dinosaurs have done it again, scoring the second-largest North American opening weekend ever with its latest franchise.

Action-packed “Jurassic World,” featuring a new, and particularly lethal hybrid dino, scored a whopping $204.6 million, according to box office tracker Exhibitor Relations.

Brig. General Idada Ikpomnwen (rtd) is a former Provost Marshal of the Nigeria Army and a military lawyer who participated in court martial on several occasions. In this interview, Ikpomnwen speaks on the movement of the military command center to Maiduguri to tackle Boko Haram insurgency as directed by President Muhammadu Buhari.

For over six years now, Boko Haram insurgents unleashed a reign of terror which claimed thousands of lives with Borno, Yobe, Bauchi, Gombe and Adamawa States badly hit, later degenerating into suicide bombings. Girls are recruited as suicide bombers.

Mr Dipo Fatokun, Director, Banking Supervision of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), on Sunday said that the nation’s transactions in mobile money was worth N5 billion annually

It was an exclusive 50th birthday party that boasted the best foods on the menu down to exotic canapé and choice wine and champagne. However, by the time desert was served, Veronica, 36, had changed from the polite, friendly lady who had initially charmed other guests, into an insulting and aggressive loud mouth. The reason? After guzzling a few glasses of Chablis, Veronica, a beautician, who runs an impressive salon insists she wasn’t drunk – but instead, had suffered a bad physical reaction to white wine. And like a growing band of women, she has sworn off it ever since.

Stanbic IBTC Asset Management Limited, one of the Nigeria’s asset management firm, has been named the ‘Best Asset Management Company Nigeria 2015’ by the Global Banking & Finance Review. The Global Banking and Finance Review Awards honour institutions that stand out in their particular area of expertise in the financial industry. It recognises achievement, innovation, growth and evolutional changes in finance globally.

The communiqué observed the lackadaisical attitude of governments to the National Housing Fund (NHF) as opposed to what obtained when the policy was newly introduced. It further called for all outstanding contributions to the NHF to be remitted while the statutory provisions of the National Housing Policy should be strictly enforced and applied along with the sanctions embedded in the policy.

LEAP Africa, Lafarge and Sterling Bank Plc and other organisations have admonished Small and Medium Scale Enterprises, SMEs to put in place risk management in their businesses in order to have sustainable growth. The three companies gathered over 800 well-known business leaders, entrepreneurs, risk management experts in Nigeria’s business sector at the 10th CEOs Forum themed “Staying Ahead: Maximising Profits and Mitigating Risks.”

I bet quite a lot of us have that someone in our past we find almost impossible to let go of. First, it starts as a simmering romance that morphed into a sizzling romance; then comes the realization that this is one relationship you dare not shut the door on after it fizzled out. Fred is a man I have such a relationship with.

Ekiti State government has described as shameful, the persistent claim by the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the State that the State Governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose was deceiving workers with the verification exercise, saying the party should stop acting shamelessly.

Beginning next Thursday, it’s that time of year again: Ramadan! As the entire world’s Muslim community prepares for this month-long event, this is a good occasion to provide you with some fun facts about Ramadan.

Three children of the same parents on Saturday night died in an inferno that destroyed their three-room-self-contain apartment in Egbeda-Akowonjo area of Lagos State.

Heritage Bank Limited, Nigeria Ports Authority, NPA, Jaiz Bank Plc and Nigerian-American Chamber of Commerce, will be formerly inducted as new members of the International Chamber of Commerce Nigeria, ICCN during the organisation’s 16th Annual General Meeting, AGM in Lagos.

President Muhammadu Buhari on Sunday urged African leaders to place the interests of their countries above narrow personal interests.
He gave the charge while chairing the African Union (AU) Peace and Security Council (PSC) meeting at the on-going AU summit in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Ahead of this year’s Ramadan, an Islamic cleric in Nasarawa state, Malam Salihu Akwe, on Sunday admonished traders against increasing the prices of essential commodities.