‘IT is inconceivable that businesses anywhere can survive on a 25 to 30% interest rate regime. How can investors anywhere survive on these rates? How can they create jobs and make returns? But this is the situation our businesses currently live with.”

LEADWAY Assurance Company Limited has settled N23billion claims as at the end of December 31, 2016 even as it recorded 13 per cent rise in gross premium income to N52.7 billion fromN46.6 billion.

WITH changes in consumers’ lifestyle and preferences, pricing and marketing insurance products has become constantly evolving challenge for insurance companies, according to the Commissioner for Insurance, Alhaji Mohamme

PRIOR to recent rally on the Bourse, most stocks quoted on the Nigerian stock exchange were trading at deep discount to analysts’ valuation as the major players (Pension Funds Administrators, Mutual Funds, and Insurance Firms etc.) held short-term views.

The number of graduate applicants in the N-Power job recruitment scheme as at June 18, is 753,307, which has exceeded by 2307, the number of both graduate and non-graduate applicants in 2016.

Members of a pro-democracy and good governance group, Concerned Nigerians, have urged the Federal Government to release the detained leader of the Shi’ite Islamic sect, Sheikh Ibraheem El-Zakzaky and his wife Malama Zeenah Ibraheem to them because they (group members) are ready to be their neighbours.

ACTING President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo Sunday told the South East Traditional Rulers that agitations for secession by the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, and the ultimatum issued to Ndigbo by the 16 coalition of youths group to vacate the 19 Northern states before 1st October were wrong and a violation of Nigeria’s constitution.

-The Acting President admonished Church leaders to teach more about integrity, honesty and thanksgiving, stressing that when the ill-gotten wealth is rejected in the Church it would make those with the habit of stealing what belongs to others to have a re-think.

Traditional Rulers from the South East during the consultative meeting with the Acting President Yemi Osinbajo at the Presidential Villa Abuja on Sunday. The meeting was aimed at promoting peace, as well as protecting lives and properties of all Nigerians.

‎Notorious kidnap kingpin, Chukwudubem Onwuamadike, AKA Evans, who was arrested recently by the police for coordinating several high profile kidnappings and armed robberies within Lagos, Anambara and Enugu State, receiving millions of dollars as ransom, Sunday took police operative to two houses (Dens) in Ejigbo and Igando areas in Lagos state, where he kept some of his victim for months.

Kano Pillars Football Club on Sunday defeated visiting MFM FC of Lagos 3-1 in a 2016/2017 Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL) Match Day 25 fixture in Kano.‎

The Acting President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo has said that anybody found out to have more money than he or she should would be held to account for it. He also said that people who loot the public treasury or their organizations are doing so out of greed, and not because of any political objective of keeping a war chest for the future.

Special Adviser to the President on Political Matters, Senator Babafemi Ojudu, Sunday stated that the Presidency ignored inviting the leader of the indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu  because the Presidency did not consider Kanu as a leader of thought in the south east.

Acting President Yemi Osinbajo has warned that persons agitating for secession and the northern groups that issued ultimatum to Igbos risked jail terms as they violated Nigeria’s laws.