PAYPAL’s small-business financing unit has announced that it has topped $3 billion in financing more than 115,000 businesses worldwide. That represents an acceleration of its lending to small businesses, which passed the $1billion milestone a year and a half ago, and is now growing at a rate of $4.5 million a day.

IMMEDIATE past Governor of Enugu State, Mr. Sullivan Chime has finally broken his long silence and formally announced his decision to defect to the All Progressives Congress, APC.

By Dayo Adesulu, Adewole Adebusayo & Rebecca Amos IT is indisputable that a vast number of students have completely lost interest in reading, both in and out of higher institutions. To say that the reading competition and zeal among students is fast declining is simply stating the obvious. From Lagos to Ebonyi and Calabar to […]

LEBEN und tot lassen”. This is a German expression for what has today become fashionable in Nigeria – Live and let die.

OLUSEGUN Adeniyi’s third book: Against The Run Of Play (he has now written about the General Sani Abacha, Alhaji Umaru Yar’Adua and Dr. Goodluck Jonathan regimes) was bound to ruffle feathers any which way because of the tempestuous trappings of the Jonathan era which produced the first democratic transfer of power from one regime to another in our history.

The number of new Foreign Direct Investment, FDI, projects attracted into Nigeria dropped marginally by three per cent in 2016, while the country declined to the 17th position on Ernst and Young’s Africa Attractiveness 2017 Index.

Former Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State and National Leader of All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Tinubu, and other eminent Nigerians, yesterday in Abuja, paid glowing tributes to the late journalist, playwright and scholar, Dr. Adinoyi-Ojo Onukaba, at a night of tributes and inauguration of Dr. Onukaba Adinoyi-Ojo Endowment Fund organised by Atiku.

LAGOS State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode, has said the rapid advancement in technology, especially the internet, will make learning a lot easier for Lagosians

Minna—A Minna high court, yesterday, granted former governor of Niger State, Dr. Babangida Aliyu, and his one-time Chief of Staff and Commissioner for Commerce, Alhaji Umar Nasko bail.

WORKERS of Mobil Producing Nigeria, MPN, yesterday, began a three-day warning strike over capital flight, indiscriminate retrenchment of Nigerians and replacement of same with expatriates, breach of agreement reached with the management in December 2016, among others.