Despite assertions of seeming belligerence, Acting President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, was, yesterday, reaching out to the leadership of the National Assembly towards averting imminent paralysis of the machinery of government.

VICE Chairman, Senate Committee on the Capital Market, Senator Festus Ogwuma, has disclosed that the Bill to expand the scope of operations of the Chartered Institute of Stockbrokers (CIS) would be passed very soon. In a similar vein, the Finance Minister, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun has assured stockbrokers of the government’s continuous support for them as distribution agents in the value chain of financial intermediation.

With the deluge of intelligentsia, nobody can speak for Anioma people better than the Aniomas

Banking industry has been experiencing new types of risks associated with the use of technology for banking services. These risks could be due to human error, systems failure, fraud and cybercrimes. Banks in Nigeria have lost a lot of money to various fraudulent practices perpetrated through electronic channels. Fraud attempts, successful frauds, hacks and scams have steadily increased as banking takes center-stage in the digital world.

A delegation of Nigerian Guild of Editors, NGE, led by the president, and Managing Director/Editor-in-Chief of New Telegraph newspapers, Mrs. Funke Egbemode, is set to visit China between July 23 and 28.

GBARAMATU-IJAW communities in Warri South-West Local Government Area, Delta State, yesterday, said they were not scared of the Deghele Declaration by youths from over 250 Itsekiri communities, to defend violently, if the need arises, their territories and oil resources against all aggressors, both internal and external.

Citing dangers inherent in the Ports and Harbours Bill recently passed by the Senate, maritime workers have threatened a nationwide protest tomorrow.

Following the recent Court of Appeal judgement, which directed foreign shipping firms operating in Nigeria to refund N4 trillion, being accruals from illegal Shipping Lines Agency Charges, SLACs, collected from shippers from 2006 till date, the Nigerian Shippers’ Council, NSC, has been inundated with pleas for settlement by the multinational firms.

The President, Nigerian Society of Engineers, Mr. Otis Anyaeji has called on the Federal Government to collaborate with the Institute of Appraisers and Cost Engineers to actualise its diversification plan.

Founder and President of Afe Babalola University, Ado-Ekiti, ABUAD, Ekiti State, Aare Afe Babalola, has described former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, as the best President Nigeria ever had.

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THE Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, yesterday, alleged that some people had been paid to denounce the Biafra struggle with a promise by the Federal Government to accommodate them.

Nemesis seems to have caught up with a 40-year-old soothsayer, Sani Idris, who lured and lied to seven women that their husbands were wizards and had sex with them in Maska village, Funtua Local Government Area of Katsina State.

A member of the House of Representatives, Mr. Daniel Reyenieju, has congratulated his Majesty Ogiame Ikenwoli, the Olu of Warri, for the Honoris Causa doctorate award, conferred on him by the Benson Idahosa University, Benin.

Plateau State Commissioner for Health, Kuden Deyin, has confirmed the death of one student, while two others have been hospitalised, following an outbreak of Lassa Fever at the Federal Government College, FGC, Langtang.