The Bank of Industry (BoI), on Tuesday in Lagos launched N1billion for the fast-growing fashion industry in the country.
Mr Rasheed Olaoluwa, Managing Director of the bank, said the fund was to support Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs).
Olaoluwa added that Nigerian fashion designers were one of the most creative in the world, having trained in most of the best fashion schools across the globe.

The dates for both El Clasico clashes between Barcelona and Real Madrid in La Liga have been changed just days before the new season is due to get underway.

The National Peace Committee on Tuesday dismissed reports that it was lobbied by former President Goodluck Jonathan to stop President Muhammadu Buhari from probing his administration.

Patients and visitors at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, LUTH, Idi Araba, Lagos, fear that they are being exposed to potential outbreak of diseases as a result of the failure of the hospital management to repair a broken sewer system around the hospital’s labour ward complex.

Fresh off the success of his certified rap anthem “King Kong”, Olanrewaju David Ogunmefun, popularly known as Vector tha viper has been issued a challenge to prove he belongs in Nigerian rap’s upper echelon by setting a new Guinness World Records for the longest freestyle rap on live radio.

ABUJA-Members of the House of Representatives, Tuesday described President Muhammadu Buhari’s directive to Ministries, Departments, Agencies, MDAs to lodge all monies into a single treasury account as a step in the right direction to check financial leakages. The lawmakers were unanimous in their reactions saying the president’s directive to all Ministries, Departments and Agencies of government to lodge all incomes into one account will go a long way in checkmating corruption.

Chelsea have sidelined team doctor Eva Carneiro from match-day duties after she fell foul of manager Jose Mourinho, according to British media reports on Tuesday.

Thousands of Nigerians have been blocked from travelling abroad in a bid to stop them becoming involved in foreign terrorism, prostitution or other criminal activity, immigration officials said on Tuesday.

Reality star, @KimKardashian who is almost six months along in her second pregnancy, thrilled her fans on Tuesday after sharing a nude photo of her baby bump to buttress her sexy style.

HE House of Representatives Tuesday resolved that the Federal Ministry of Finance, the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, and the National Population Commission, NPC should appear before the House to brief members on the real state of the nation’s economy.