The first thing you need to do is look at the systems you currently have in place. What is it that constantly frustrates you, or that you feel you are spending too much time on? Are you continually searching around looking for an email address? Or cannot tell at a glance if your project is on track? Make a list of where you feel the problems are – these are your time drains. This is where you need to make improvements in your systems so that they work for you and not against you.

Mixed reactions have trailed CBN’s announcement on Wednesday of a flexible exchange rate in the foreign exchange market. While some foreign investors are keeping sealed lips, others are saying they will wait and see the level of the exchange rate depreciation before venturing into the Nigeria market. However, local investors are cautious in their reactions stating that the economy was held down by government control for too long.

BENIN—A governorship aspirant under the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu, has said that he remains focused in his aspiration to become the next governor of Edo State, despite the machinations of his detractors.

LAGOS—Former militant leader, Chief Government Ekpemupolo, alias Tompolo, has asked a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, to refer his case against the Federal Government to the Court of Appeal, for its opinion on certain questions of law raised in the suit.

The Presidency, and the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki alongside his deputy, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, were, yesterday, locked in a war of words over the arraignment of the nation’s two top legislative officials for alleged forgery of the Senate’s Standing Rules.

We must of necessity at some point collectively agree to break tradition and the tradition I speak of in this instance is the penchant to place material gains over other life impacting imperatives.

ASABA—Elders of All Progressives Congress, APC, in Delta State, have condemned the renewed surge of militancy in the region and disassociated themselves from the Biafran agitation. An a meeting held in Ozoro, the elders said that “Delta State is not and will never be part of the Biafra struggle.”

The Bank of Industry (BoI) and the Abia State Government have signed an agreement to pump N1 billion into the Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) sector of the state. The Memorandum of Understanding between the bank and the state was signed at the Government House, Umuahia.

To capture financial literacy from the grass root, Monopoly has been identified as a tool due to financial mistakes of so many in the past. Monopoly is an educative game especially when it comes to financial management and investment, demonstrating that an economy which rewards wealth creation is better than one in which monopolists work under few constraints.

The Nigerian Army announced on Sunday that it had re-opened the Madagali-Gwoza road linking Borno and Adamawa, closed several months ago due to the activities of the Boko Haram insurgents.

Armando Sadiku scored Albania’s first goal at a major tournament in a historic 1-0 win over Romania on Sunday to keep alive their slender hopes of progressing to the Euro 2016 knockout phase.

Rome on Sunday elected populist Virginia Raggi as its first female mayor in an electoral reverse for Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi.

Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger appears ready to give up his pursuit of Leicester City striker Jamie Vardy after saying Sunday he believe the England forward will stay with the Premier League champions.

Indigenes of oil-rich Awarra in Ohaji/Egbema Local Government Area of Imo State have deserted their community, following raging war between two cult groups, De-Well and De-Gbam, which started since 2008.

Four Rapid Response Squad, RRS, operatives of the Lagos State Police Command escaped death by the whisker in the early hour of yesterday, as a speeding KIA Rio, belonging to a car hire operator rammed into their vehicle, while they were on duty around Ogudu-Alapere area of the state.