YEAR to Date, YtD return on investment in the stock market has declined by 1. 5 per cent as the Nigerian Stock Exchange, NSE market capitalisation closed yesterday at N9.709 trillion from N9.85 trillion.

IN its quest to provide Nigerians with investment options to enhance their incomes, Eagle Global Markets, EGM has come up with Naira used global trading platform that puts off pressure on Foreign Exchange, FX and gives more value to the local currency.

UBA Foundation, the corporate social responsibility arm of United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc, has announced call for entries for the 2016 edition of its annual National Essay Competition.

Borussia Dortmund may well have seen an exodus of key players this summer but the wheel keeps on turning and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang is as dangerous as ever ahead of Real Madrid’s trip to Germany.

Former chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Appropriation, Abdulmumin Jibrin, yesterday, said he subjected himself to a drug and alcohol test to rebuff allegations that he was acting under influence in his recent actions.

National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS, has called on the Federal Government to reject the idea to sale the nation’s assets to bring the country out of recession.

Yenagoa—A section of the Onuebum Road leading to Otuoke, former President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan’s home town in Ogbia Local Government Area of Bayelsa State, has been taken over by flood.

As revenue dropped by 13.94 per cent, a corresponding (or near that) drop in cost would have made all the difference. But cost dropped by just 4.8 per cent.

The International Finance Corporation, IFC, has said that by 2030, Africa’s agriculture and agribusiness market would triple to $1trillion, as Promasidor Nigeria Limited, PNL, concludes arrangement to inject over N8 billion ($25 million) facility from the agency to expand production capacity.

It’s not just Nigeria but a global recession and it’s very difficult to fulfil all our financial obligations because the government is struggling.”

AS the case involving three staff of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN and some commercial banks over alleged stealing of over N8.5 billion continues, one of the accused persons, Oni Adewale Dolapo has opted for plea bargaining to be let off the hook.

I HAVE just read the wide media coverage regarding the recommendations of the National Economic Council (NEC) as well as the Senate on the ways to reboot the economy out of the current recession.

THE Lagos State House of Assembly has called on Governor Akinwunmi Ambode to bring back health inspection officers in each of the 57 Local Government and Local Council Development Areas, LCDAs, to address the menace of cholera outbreak.

A most unpleasant event occurred in an Igbosere Magistrate’s Court in Lagos Island recently, which illustrated the total disregard of the human rights and dignity of detainees and inmates in the custody of the Nigerian law enforcement agencies.

Country Director of the United Nations Development Programme, UNDP, to Nigeria, Lamin Beyai, has said the best way to institutionalise the fight against corruption in the country and make it effective was to reform the public service and make it part of the anti- corruption crusade.