Okpella youths weekend staged a solidarity march at the palace of the Okuophellagbe of Okpella kingdom, Dr. Yesufu Dirisu, over the proposed Dangote Cement Plant in the village.

The National Housing Fund (NHF) scheme was established by Act 3 of 1992 to enable Nigerians in all sectors of the economy, particularly those within the low and medium income levels who cannot afford commercial housing loans to own houses. But what are the criteria needed and the procedures required in order to be able to secure loans under the scheme?

Africa Prudential Registrars Plc has proposed a final dividend of forty-three (43) Kobo per share to the delight of its shareholders. This final dividend rounds up to sixty (60) Kobo total dividend for 2015 financial year, having paid an interim dividend of seventeen (17) Kobo on August 31, 2015 after releasing its half year financial results.

When late Harold Wilson, the late British Labor Party Prime Minister pronounced in the 1970s that “A week in politics is a long time” (VBQ p 271) he left politicians in the modern age a time metric to determine the tide of events as they affect their popularity with the electorate.

Minister of Transportation, Mr Rotimi Amaechi and Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State, weekend, traded words, accusing each other of corruption and mismanaging the resources of the state.

Troops of Operation Sharan Daji engaged in anti-cattle rustling, armed banditry, kidnapping and other criminal activities in various states of the North-West, weekend, recorded major successes against rustlers, killing 12 of them, destroying their camps and recovered many livestock, arms and ammunition.

It has been confirmed that Youth and Sports minister, Barrister Solomon Dalung will be present when the country’s former coach Sunday Oliseh appears before the House of Representatives sports committee in Abuja on Thursday.

lagos—Six days after 34 people were confirmed dead and 13 others rescued after a five-storey building under construction collapsed at Lekki, the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency LASEMA, has reacted to insinuations that some victims were still trapped under the rubble after the rescue operation was concluded.

CHIEF Executive Officer of West Blue Consulting, Ms Valetina Mintah has said that excessive bureaucracy has been identified as the most severe constraints to trade processing in Africa. Speaking at the recently concluded Ghana National Single Window Media Trade facilitation workshop in Akossombo, Ghana, Mintah said importers and exporters remain uncompetitive in the global business arena, a development that could be attributed to the number of days it takes to complete import and export processing and their attendant costs.

EMERGING projections point to the fact that the purveyors of the desperate craze to lure the people of Edo State into the vortex of neo-colonial subservience and allegiance to an Aliko Dangote who, through the sitting Governor of the state is bent on foisting a surrogate on Edo State.