Institute of Empowerment and Strategy, IES, has accused banks in the country of frustrating the disbursement of the $6.5 billion empowerment fund to beneficiaries who have met the requirements to be empowered to start small scale businesses.

In 1909, coal was discovered in Enugu State, Nigeria. The Ogbete drift mine opened six years later.

CHIEF Newton Agbofodon, the Unuevworo of Ekpan, in Uvwie Local Government Area, Delta State, has appealed to Governor Ifeanyi Okowa to forgive whatever wrong he and others in the community might have done, so as to steer the community from renewed crisis.

THE acting Executive Chairman of Abia State Universal Basic Education [ASUBEB], Mr. Ugochukwu Nwosu has said that Governor Okezie Ikpeazu introduced Education for Employment (E-E) programme in the state school system as a way of curbing social ills such as armed robbery, cultism, kidnapping, among others.

The expected yearly report of the Imo State House of Assembly Service Commission has run into arrears, following what the establishment’s Chairman, Chief Emeka Okoronkwo, called “some intervening factors.”

Former Anambra State governor, Mr. Peter Obi, says that the birth of Osisioma Foundation was not only a blessing but the vehicle needed by Ndigbo to re-establish themselves globally in commerce and education.

The Enugu Electricity Distribution Company, EEDC, has blamed what it described as incidences of overbilling of its customers on “energy theft” and appealed to electricity consumers in the South East to assist the company to apprehend the perpetrators.

YOUTHS in the South East Geo-political zone are to benefit from the entrepreneurship programme established by Intarfact Beverages Limited based in Onitsha, Anambra State.

A Non-Governmental Organization, Chinedu Ogah Foundation, last weekend built and handed over a 3-bedroom bungalow to Ebonyi State’s presumed oldest man as part of its programme of taking care of the less privileged and down trodden in society.

Even when World Development Report, WDR,reveals that digital technologies have spread rapidly in most parts of the world, there are still many countries of the world lagging behind in the dividends this spread was supposed to accrue.

Governor Aminu Masari of Katsina State, has said the fire incident that razed the Sabon Gari Market in Kano, should be seen as an act of God.

IBE Kachikwu, the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources and Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, does not come across as a politician. Even as a long time player in the oil industry his resume proclaims him more of an intellectual or a technocrat rather than an oil merchant and, even less, a power monger.

People often talk of others as being a “pain in the neck” or some other ( impolite ) part of the anatomy, but never would you hear someone being described as a “pain in the chest”!

Ibadan—FORMER Secretary-General of the Commonwealth, Chief Emeka Anyaoku has advised President Muhammadu Buhari not to shift on his stance against devaluation of the Naira, noting that he should seek the expertise of a team economic analysts on the nation’s economic crisis.

lagos—A group, the Coalition of Ibile Professionals, yesterday, came out strongly to defend the choice of Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka as co-chair of the Lagos at 50 Celebration Committee.