Former chairman of the PDP Board of Trustees, BoT, Chief Tony Anenih, has accused Governor Oshiomhole of plotting to obliterate the Esan Nation saying the outgoing governor has consistently marginalized the region and its people.

Enhancing Financial Innovation & Access (EFInA) has released $2 million (564,000,000) Innovation Grant to support First City Monument Bank (FCMB) Limited with its “Group Lending and Agency Banking” project,which provides financial services and access to credit facilities for the financially excluded population. Meanwhile, FCMB group lending project is a digitized credit and savings solution, facilitating instant account opening with debit card issuance for online real time transactions, driven by Point of Sale (POS) and mobile devices, while EFInA innovation grant will enable FCMB extend facilities to prospective customers in twelve states:Bauchi, Kaduna,Sokoto, Niger, Kwara, Lagos, Oyo, Ogun, AkwaIbom, Rivers, Cross River and Abia States.

Microfinance Bank (MfB) are not Foreign Exchange traders owing to the fact that they are not a dealing bank, except for clients who are importers, said operators This is coming on the heels of the introduction of a new foreign exchange policy by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) that allow market forces to determine the Naira exchange rate in a new single structured foreign exchange market.

AS part of government efforts to ensure that fertilizer gets to genuine farmers, Governor Muhammed Jibrilla of Adamawa State, has barred allocation of fertilizer to politicians in the state.

Participants at a two –day media dialogue on child nutrition have called on President Mohammadu Buhari and the 36 States Governors, to devote at least 5 percent of their security votes to tackle the heavy burden of malnutrition in the country.

We in the capital market have always had cordial relationship with the Federal Government. We owe the Federal Government constant engagement in order to articulate policy issues that would move the market forward. The regulators and we the operators are the technical people . But we need the endorsement of the government and its patronage at every stage for the market to move forward. Several meetings, including public hearings had been held to x-ray the capital market and re-position it for global competitiveness. Many committees had been constituted as ad hoc or standing one. These committees usually have government representatives. Engagement with the government is a continuous exercise.

Governor Akinwunmi Ambode has been appointed to lead the National Campaign Council of the APC for the September polls.

ABUJA—The Federal Government has warned stakeholders in the building industry to ensure that no building collapses anywhere in the country henceforth, vowing to deal with culprits, if any building collapses in the country.

The Federal Government lost approximately $518 million to oil swap and Offshore Processing Agreements, OPAs, in 2013 due to inefficiencies of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, and its subsidiaries.

ABUJA—The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has questioned the Director General and 24 other officials of a Federal Government parastatal under the Foreign Affairs Ministry over the questionable withdrawal of $219,000 (about N66 million) from the account of the Nigerian Technical Cooperation Fund, NTCF.

A top official in the technical department of the Nigeria Football Federation has disclosed that the football house are set to appoint Paul Le Guen as the coach of the Super Eagles.

PRESIDENT of the Nigeria Weightlifting Federation, Hon. Prince Chibudom Nwuche has alerted that paucity of funds besides inadequate preparation at the disposal of the Federation may cost Nigeria medals at the Rio Olympics in Brazil.

Traditional rulers from Esan land in Edo Central have adopted the PDP candidate, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu on the basis of what they alleged as the sustained marginalisation of the people of the area by the outgoing APC administration of Comrade Adams Oshiomhole.

THE recent submission of the report of the 11-man Committee on Local Government Staff Audit and Biometrics Data Capturing in Enugu State was not only revealing but also a welcome development.

FORMER Senior Special Assistant to the ex- president Goodluck Jonathan on public affairs, Dr. Doyin Okupe, Sunday explained why was paid various sums of money from the office of the National Security Adviser (NSA)