Determined to empower small and medium scale business owners in Rivers State, the state governor, Mr. Nyesom Wike, has approved the disbursement of business loans to 35,000 less privileged business operators under the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, N2 billion Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Development Fund.

HOST Communities of Nigeria Producing Oil and Gas, Edo State chapter, has appealed to the Senate President, Senator Bukola Saraki and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mr. Yakubu Dogara, to shun the planned removal of the 10 percent equity for host communities in the draft Petroleum Industry Bill, PIB, to avoid returning the country to the dark days of rancour, restiveness and instability.

FORMER Secretary General of the Nigeria Football Association (NFA), Alhaji Sani Ahmed Toro has urged the arrow head of the ‘rebelling’ football administrators, Chris Giwa to abide by the rule of the game by respecting the status of the NFF, CAF and FIFA.

Vice President, Board of Appeal Committee of the Confederation of African Football, CAF, Mazi Amanze Uchegbulam has dismissed the reconciliation committee set up by Sports Minister, Solomon Dalung to reconcile the various warring factions in Nigerian football headed by former Chairman of NFA, Alhaji Ibrahim Galadima.

I HAVE been thinking through President Muhammadu Buhari’s threat to “deal with (pipeline vandals) like Boko Haram”. That was the president’s “latest release” from foreign land, when he completed his one-week epic tour of China last week.