NASD OTC Securities Exchange Plc said that bonds worth N9.6 billion was traded on its platform during the year ended December 31, 2016, even as plans are underway for the Exchange to raise N165.5 million via rights issues.

Undoubtedly one of the most impactful men of his generation, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, has had great bearing on the pace and pattern of the nation’s political economy in the last 17 years. From his role in opening up the nation’s privatisation programme, through his lasting reforms of operations of the Federal Capital Territory Administration, to his most recent role in reengineering the political opposition, El-Rufai has made a phenomenal impact on the nation.

In apparent response to last week’s anti-Buhari protests across the country, a coalition of pro-Buhari organizations under the aegis of Citizens Support for Good Governance in Nigeria (SGGN) said it is mobilizing Nigerians of all shades for a mega rally tagged #iSupportPresidentBuhari to be held across Abuja, Lagos, Kaduna and Kano this week.

2016 was the most difficult year for the country. Though, we all understood what happened. A situation where by the oil price crashed by more than 50 percent; a situation where there was bomb blast everywhere; we were nearly in war, you have a situation where restiveness was on the high side in the Niger Delta region to the extent that we were producing less than 50 percent of our capacity in terms of quantity of oil per barrel.

The Lagos State Government yesterday said it had harvested 50 tonnes of catfish in six months since the introduction of the commercial Cage Culture System fish farming.

FORMER Governor of Delta State, Chief James Ibori, yesterday reaffirmed his innocence of charges leveled against him in the United Kingdom where he recently served a jail term, saying, “I am not a thief.”

WITHIN these twenty months of the regime of President Muhammadu Buhari, we have been privileged to see two “faces” of his presidency. The first face is the General Muhammadu Buhari character of it, while the second is the Professor Yemi Osinbajo coloration. These two faces are dramatically different. Let us look at them briefly.

Justice A. Abdul Kafarati of a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has declared that the Extra Ordinary General Meeting, EGM, of the Ikeja Hotel Plc, held on January 6, 2015, where the chairman of the hotel’s board, Mr. Goodie Ibru was supposedly removed as unlawful, illegal and of no effect.

Catholic youths at Our Lady of Good Counsel, Imerienwe in Ngor Okpala Local Government Area of Imo State, have continued to complain about celebrating a mass in their church without a priest.

THE National Insurance Commission (NAICOM) has said compliance to compulsory insurance is still at the low ebb in the country.