According to recent statistics, mobile commerce is worth $230 billion, about N46 trillion globally with Asia representing almost half of the market, and has been forecast to reach $700 billion in 2017. According to BI Intelligence, in January 2013, 29 per cent of mobile users have now made a purchase with their phones. Bank of America predicts $67.1 billion in purchases will be made from mobile devices by European and U.S. shoppers in 2015.

“We have ended the dominance of government and I am optimistic that the private sector will lead Nigeria in restoring its past glory in agriculture. “ He continued “On this ground, we are together inaugurating the Agribusiness Investment Inter-Ministerial (AIM) Working Group today as a show of our commitment in delivery on our promise to facilitate your investments from early stage and throughout the investment life cycle.

By Jonah Nwokpoku & Ediri Ejoh The Federal Government’s newly rehabilitated rail loop lines linking various oil tank farms at Apapa, Lagos have been overtaken by thick bush, eight months after rehabilitation, Financial Vanguard investigation has revealed. The project which was handled by China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation, CCECC, has remained unused after it was completed. […]

For Nigerians who are old enough to remember the currency change in 1984, what is happening now is similar, though different in nature and context. In 1984, the Nigerian military government of Muhammadu Buhari in an attempt to legitimize its interruption of the democratic process through a military coup d’état directed the CBN to cause a change in the colours of the Nigerian currency. The exercise was designed to render the money alleged to have been stolen by Nigerian political leaders useless in their hands.

Emotions ran high yesterday as one 112 children at the Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs, camp in Benin, Edo State, reunited with their parents.