SMEs can access finance with appropriate strategies — BoI
The Bank of Industry, (BoI), has said that Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in Nigeria can overcome the challenge of lack of access to finance by employing appropriate strategies suitable to their peculiar characteristics. Disclosing this at the 2015 Annual General Meeting of the Nigerian Association of Small and Medium Enterprises (NASME), Executive Director, Small and Medium Enterprises, BOI, Mr. Waheed Olagunju, said SMEs are recognised as playing key roles in the economy of any society and Nigeria is not an exception.
After mysterious fire: Family seeks N5m to settle medical bills
THE Onyeanube family is currently in dire straits following a mysterious fire that engulfed Chinyere, and her five children in their home in Ikotun, a Lagos suburb last December 23.
I’ll be governor for all Deltans — Okowa
The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, governorship candidate in Delta State, Senator Ifeanyi Okowa, in this interview, offers insight into his political trajectory and vision for the state. Okowa, who displays his mastery of the peculiar concerns of those he seeks to govern, is confident of emerging the fourth civilian governor of the state.
Buhari does not meet the North’s leadership criteria —Sen Adeyemi
Senator Smart Adeyemi is Chairman, Senate Committee on Federal Capital Territory and represents Kogi South in the parliament. In this interview, he says it is not yet the turn of the North to produce the President. He also says that General Muhammadu Buhari, the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, is not the candidate of the North, pointing out that he lacks the qualities of the late Sardauna of Sokoto, Alhaji Ahmadu Bello, who held sway as the Northern Region Premier in the first republic. Excerpts:
Elections’ ll hold as scheduled – Jonathan
PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan,Sunday, said the dates of the rescheduled general elections, remained sacrosanct even as he commended Nigerians for showing interest in the electoral process.
Amaechi’s deputy dumps APC
The deputy to Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State, Mr Tele Ikuru, Sunday, dumped his All Progressives Congress, APC, for the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, describing the APC “As a party of rebels, insurgents and anarchists, clothed in robes of pretence and deceit.”
