KPMG, a global network of professional firms providing audit, tax and advisory services, has revealed that investment in Nigeria Financial services Technology, FinTech, over the last two years has exceeded $200 million.

In Nigeria, shaping the future beyond oil is a critical part of the national agenda. The current economy is dominated by the oil industry. The labour force of 47 million is growing, as is the unemployment rate currently at 20%, with millions of workers underemployed. Nigeria has the largest domestic market in Africa, a wide range of natural resources, and a diversely skilled labour pool. Given these economic realities, the country must constantly create new jobs, and diversify the industrial and commercial sector to take advantage of human and natural resources.

Mr. Bashir Yankuzu, a lecturer with the Department of Sciences, Federal University of Technology Minna, has commended the Independent National Electoral Commission ( INEC) and security agencies for the success of Ondo State governorship election.

The biennial conference, International Health Safety and Environment (HSE) organised by the Ministry of Petroleum Resources and others, will see the minister for State Petroleum, Dr. Ibe Kachukwu, speak on ways of improving security in the oil and gas industry.

The report, a few weeks ago, that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) seized a building worth two billion naira from a former Comptroller-General of the Nigerian Customs Service, has raised questions on what the Federal Government intends to do with such confiscated structures. It is only one of several hundred houses, hotels, commercial buildings and parcels of land now reportedly in the custody of the EFCC, though most of them are still under litigation.