LAGOS—The families of five of the seven persons kidnapped by militants, Sunday, in Kodjo Farm, located at Igbodu, Epe area of Lagos State, said, yesterday, that the kidnappers had demanded N20 million ransom.

The Nigerian Insurers Association, NIA, has commenced moves to curtail the incursion of state governments into the third party motor insurance business for the purpose of revenue generation.

ENUGU — The “think home; build home,” mantra of the South East Development Initiative, SELDI is now yielding positive results with plans to establish a new $5 billion vehicle manufacturing company in Enugu State. The company would offer employment to about 750 workers.

ONITSHA – It was a red carpet reception for Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo, last week in the commercial city of Onitsha, Anambra state as industrialists in the commercial city, under the aegis of Habour-Bridge Head Industrialists Association unianimously gave him a rousing welcome to their respective factories.

Professor Wole Soyinka once wrote that: “It would be a distortion of history and an attempt to trivialize the trauma that the Igbo had undergone to suggest – as some commentators have tried to do – that it was the lure of oil wealth that drove them to seek a separate existence.”