The Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, weekend, identified the non-passage of National Payment System Management Bill by the National Assembly, NASS, as hindrance to combating electronic fraud, even as banks lost $450 million to cyber attack in the last one year.

Vincent Enyeama let in four goals in a match for the third time in the French topflight on Saturday as Lille were stunned 4-1 at home to AS Monaco.

The Nigerian Army, yesterday, concluded a military drill to train its Special Forces on operations in maritime environment in Twon Brass, a coastal settlement in Bayelsa State.

Nigeria has won her third gold medal at the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games in Brazil through Team Nigeria’s Captain Lucy Ejike who also shattered the Paralympic and world record to dominate the women’s -61kg event in powerlifting.

In a bid to curb harassment of people of Ado-Ekiti by masquerades, the Ewi of Ado Ekiti, Oba Rufus Adeyemo Adejugbe has placed a temporary ban on the masquerade festival in the town.

CALABAR— DOCTOR Peter Odey, a famous medical practitioner in Ogoja, Cross River State, was, weekend, burnt to death in his sleep at his house located on Ibadan Street, Igoli-Ogoja.

I will start with the opportunity, the size of the market, the size of the under-served in this market which is 37 million, about 18 times the population of Botswana, the opportunity is very large. Secondly, we saw a large number of micro-finance businesses doing similar things without any differentiation which we think would be an opportunity to bring to the market, whether it is in the education, health or agriculture and we do low income housing.

A sudden earthquake is about to hit the whole of Nigeria this month; not the sort of physical tremor which devastates buildings, breaks up bridges and brings down power lines – while destroying lives. Ours will be a social upheaval never experienced in this country for as long as the oldest of us can remember.

The Banking and Conglomerates sub sectors on the Nigerian Stock Exchange, NSE, last week boosted the stock market turnover by 85.83 per cent. Specifically, a turnover of 1.183 billion shares worth N10.300 billion in 16,522 deals were traded last week by investors on the floor of the exchange in contrast to a total of 1.115 billion shares valued at N13.817 billion that exchanged hands penultimate week in 16,083 deals.

Mixed reactions, yesterday, trailed revelations of the discovery of $20 million in the accounts of companies and personal account of the immediate past First Lady, Mrs. Patience Jonathan.