THE Bank of Industry, BoI, and Diamond Bank Plc have entered into partnership to help micro entrepreneurs in the country to easily access the N140 billion Government Enterprise and Empowernment Programme, GEEP, Funds.

A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, presided over by Justice John Tsoho, who came from Abuja to deliver a ruling, has granted the prayers to discharge three Indian brothers: Chandru Ganglani, Bharat Ganglani and Trishul Ganglani (contemnors/applicants) who were committed to prison custody for one month for disobedience of court order.

There was pandemonium in Ejigbo area of Lagos yesterday, as a young man was hit by a stray bullet from operatives of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, who went to arrest suspected kidnappers.

—Policemen attached to the Force Criminal Investigation Department, Abuja, on Tuesday in Lagos, arrested three members of Road Transport Employers Association of Nigeria, RTEAN, over the alleged killing of a commercial motorcycle (Okada) rider, identified as Michael Ekpo, a member of Motorcycle Owners and Riders Association, ANACOWA.

RESIDENTS of Sapele, Sapele Local Government Area, Delta State, yesterday, faulted the recent claim by Benin Electricity Distribution Company, BEDC, that power supply had improved in the municipality and environs.

Erstwhile National Publicity Secretary of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Chief Olisa Metuh, yesterday, lodged a report to the police in Abuja over what he claimed as a failed assassination attempt on him.

Provost, College of Medicine, University of Lagos and Consultant Paediatrician, Lagos University Teaching Hospital, LUTH, Prof. Afolabi Lesi has identified dearth of medical expertise, high cost of accessing healthcare and ignorance as major challenges in the management of people living with Cerebral Palsy, CP, in the country.

VCONNECT, a Nigerian search engine and Nolands Tax recently hosted a business forum for SMEs in a bid to support development of entrepreneurship in Nigeria.

IN its passion to inspire children’s creativity, Meadow Hall Group, an educational group has commissioned Meadow Hall Edutainment Centre, a state-of-the–art learning center, in Lekki, Lagos, to nurture and inspire creativity in children.

ILORIN-Agbami Group, comprising of five major oil companies namely NNPC, Petrobras, Statoil, Famfa Oil, and Chevron has donated a multi million naira science laboratory complex and equipment to Comprehensive College, Isanlu Isin in Isin Local Government Area of Kwara state in a bid to improve its standard.