BANK of Industry, Bill  and Melinda Gates Foundation and Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP), are collaborating to boost entrepreneurship, deepen financial inclusion and fast-track poverty eradication in the country.

IN its continuing bid to  help boost small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Africa, Facebook, last week, launched the Nigerian SME Council, first of its kind in the continent.

IN a bid to improve learning process in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics, STEM, the United States of America in partnership with RoboRave International, a U.S-based robotics academic, has initiated a week-long robotics workshop for 460 elementary, secondary, and university students in Lagos and Abeokuta, Ogun State.

A SET of identical twins, Chika and Chidi Nwaogu, have floated Publiseer, a platform to help struggling Nigerian authors and artists publish their works everywhere for free.

LAGOS State Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode, has said that the insurance industry could put the society back on its feet in times of difficulties.

Chief Superintendent of Customs, A. M. Jamiari, led his Roving Team A squad to intercept and seize over 1,300 bags of rice, smuggled into the country, in Yewa River, Ipokia Local Government Area, Ogun State, from Benin Republic.

Nigerian missions across the globe are currently experiencing financial difficulties, as they are owing months of salary arrears.

Forever Nigeria will soon be up and running again. The new boss, Daniel Ikechukwu, Biochemist, with intimi dating credentials, is already a testament to hard working business owners. Ikechukwu, the one time regional head at Abbott, was with Nestle Nigeria, then to Pfizer Nutrition and back again at Nestle, when the later acquired the former, and now in Forever Living Products Nigeria as Country Sales Manager.

THE University of        Ibadan,Class of 1967 celebrates its 50th anniversary on November 4, 2017, the day in 1967 when some young men and women matriculated into the academic institution known as the University of Ibadan. UI Class of ’67, also called UI ’67, is a branch of the alumni association and is made up of the matriculants of that year and a few other alumni whose Class have no branch and who are in love with activities of this class.

Oseni Adewale Paul, a graduate of Capital University USA, studied Information System before proceeding to study Data Management at National Open University of Nigeria. He is an entrepreneur and founder of WTC Business Solutions and a Tony Elumelu Entrepreneur 2016. In this interview, he lets other budding entrepreneurs into the secret of success under challenging environment such as in Nigeria. Excerpts.

THE appointment of 40-year-old Aishah Ahmad recently as a Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, was greeted with excitement amongst young Nigerians and women who were glad another woman is being given a place in the apex bank’s top echelon at her relatively young age.

Owerri—Confusion, yesterday, gripped Imo monarchs over alleged plot to sack the state chairman of traditional rulers, Eze Samuel Ohiri, by Governor Rochas Okorocha.

MAKURDI—A Makurdi Magistrate’s Court judge, Justice Isaac Ajim, has threatened to revoke the bail granted Alhaji Abubakar Tsav, following his application for another adjournment in the criminal proceedings filed against him by Benue State government.

ABUJA—THE Comptroller General of the Nigeria Prisons Service, NPS, Jafa’aru Ahmed has attributed the reduction in cases of jailbreak to new measures by management of the service, including sanction of erring officials.

ILORIN—To ensure a violence-free poll in the 18 local government elections in Kwara State on November 18, the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, yesterday, vowed to clamp down and prosecute those dealing in production, sales and abuse of hard drugs in the state.