Investors in the nation’s stock market have lost about N281 billion of their investment value in the past eight months as the ongoing economic recession continues to hit the financial market. This is just as stockbrokers continued to lament over difficult operating environment which has placed their businesses in difficulties.

Apparently irked by the prevailing harsh economic environment facing the citizenry, the Catholic Ecclesiastical Province of Owerri has ordered its adherents to troupe out next Tuesday for a prayer rally.

The Directorate of State, DOS, Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, worldwide has declared 23rd September 2016 as the day for Biafrans worldwide to protest against the continued detention of its leader Nnamdi Kanu and for the freedom of Biafra people.

LAGOS—THE kidnappers of four residents of Lekki Gardens in Isheri, a border community between Lagos and Ogun states, weekend, demanded N1.2 billion ransom for their release.

The caucus of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Enugu State chapter, weekend, accused the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, of a grand plot to scuttle the fight against corruption in the country.

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The 2016 NNPC/Chevron Junior Tennis Clinic has come to an exciting and stylish finale at the Lagos Lawn Tennis Club, Onikan.

It is no longer news that insurance penetration in Nigeria is below one per cent and this is due to the obvious fact that the greater part of the population have refused to accept insurance as a risk transfer mechanism.

Relief is on the way for motorists and commuters who go through agonies plying the terribly deplorable Enugu-Onitsha Expressway, as the Federal Government has commenced the process for the rehabilitation of the highway.

Consumer Protection Council, CPC, has issued a seven-day ultimatum to Samsung Electronics West Africa Limited to recall its Galaxy Note 7, following its explosion during charging.