FBN Holdings Plc, the parent company of First bank Limited said it would cut jobs and focus less on providing loans to the oil industry in a bid to reverse last year’s 82 percent slump in profit.

Members of the Board of Directors of National Broadcasting Commission, NBC, have justified the actions they took in selling a radio spectrum worth N34 billion and paying a commission of N3.4 billion to the consultants, arguing that it was the best action taken to raise money for digital switch over.

RATS are rodents and the most notorious in Nigeria is the Rattus Rattus (black rats). These rats are capable of producing as many as 2000 litters in a year. Rats operate from holes, nooks, and crannies, scavenging, causing havoc and spreading diseases.

Convener, The Platform, and Pastor, Covenant Christian Church, Mr. Poju Oyemade, yesterday, emphasised the need to explore the potentials in untapped and unexplored capital in the quest for growth, irres-pective of the challenge posed by the volatility in the price of crude oil.

Borno State Government yesterday, lamented that one of negative effects of the activities of the Boko Haram insurgency in the state was the inability to complete N17 billion roads and bridges projects in Maiduguri metropolis, including three-kilometre Lagos Street Bridge awarded in 2012.

The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has accused South East governors and politicians of trading off Ndigbo for personal and selfish political interest.

Despite the challenging operating environment in 2015, there has been a prediction that African capital markets are expected to see a gradual pickup in growth in 2016, with the markets expected to raise Initial Public Offers, IPOs of $3.1 billion .

ASSOCIATION of Senior Civil Servants of Nigeria, ASCSN, yesterday, commended President Muhammadu Buhari for the payment of salaries of Federal Public Servants by April 25, urging him to ensure that other benefits such as promotion arrears among other allowances owed Federal employees were settled in good time.

The National Youth Services Corp, NYSC is to deploy Doctors, Nurses and other medical Corp members to all the major Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs camps across the country, the Director General of the Corp, Brigadier General Suleiman Zakari Kazaure has disclosed.

Ijaws of Gbaramatu Kingdom in Delta State, under the aegis of Flowstation Wellhead Host Communities, have warned against diverting money accruing to them in the state Oil Producing Areas Development Commission, DESOPADEC, to build a modular refinery.