Central Bank of Nigeria has developed policies from the microfinance policy, especially around mobile money, agent network, non-interest banking, among others. We have developed policies across the board, including the National Financial Inclusion policy extensively worked on with the CBN. Some of the service providers have concluded that the low income earners have some form of income, but do not want to use it in the formal financial space.

In a bid to win the forthcoming November 18th gubernatorial election in Anambra state, opposition party leaders in the state have alleged that governor Willie Obiano built 35 roads project at Aguleri his ‘home town’ which the National Coordinator Media Warriors Forum, Evang Chinedu Obigwe, Sunday refuted the allegation and cautioned those behind the false publication to stop concocting lies against the loved governor.

Well, land acquisitions had been at the forefront. To acquire massive land to produce sugar in commercial quantity is a major challenge. I would give you examples of states where we have gone and spent two to three years just to acquire land. When you are talking of acquiring 20-30, 000 hectares of land, you will see that you are encroaching into several communities and what one community likes doesn’t agree with what other communities like.

APPARENTLY disturbed by the deliberate refusal of acting Chairman of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ibrahim Magu and other agencies of government to obey summons, the House of Representatives Committee on Public Petitions, yesterday, vowed to apply the mechanism of the law to make them appear.

THE leadership of the All Progressives Congress, APC will find it difficult to convince Nigerians that it is fighting corruption and should be removed given the fact that the party’s officials are promoters of corruption, the Chairman of the Presidential Committee on Anti-Corruption, Professor Itse Sagay, has said.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has filed charges against two oil service companies and their directors for allegedly defrauding a bank of over N7billion.

Barely eleven years ago, Nigeria was compelled by pressure, from International creditors, particularly the London and Paris club, to ‘voluntarily’ part with almost $12.4bn allegedly owed, so that another $18bn debt could be written off, from the country’s total external debt of about $30bn.

By Esther Onyegbula Reproductive health analyst, Mr Stephen Awogbami, has expressed concern over contraceptive use among Nigerian women, saying age, marital status and income influence their choices. Awogbami said this as Professor of Demography and Social Statistics, Bola Solanke, argued that maternal age, number of children (parity), child mortality experience, geographic region and employment status […]

Nnewi—THE was commotion, weekend, at Eziowelle, Idemili North Local Government Area, Anambra State, when a 16-year-old boy Ezeanya, was hung on a crane, hacked to death and deposited at a hospital morgue, Ogidi, by a man (name withheld).