FORMER governor of Kaduna State, Ahmed Makarfi, has said there was nothing wrong with restructuring Nigeria as long as the foundations were not tampered with.

The proposed micro pension scheme is one initiative with great potential capable of landing the industry into its next phase of growth. Regardless of the inherent challenges, the micro pension scheme has the capability to deepen asset accumulation in Nigeria considering that 70 percent of Nigeria’s working population operates in the informal sector.  Among its other benefits include improved standard of living for the elderly, safety of funds and access to other incentives, such as mortgage facilities, health insurance and estate planning.

NIGERIAN banks lost N55.5billion to fraudsters from 2001 to 2015 while they sacked 7,102 staff over their involvement.

ABUJA—Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, yesterday, accused state governors of using the stand-off emanating from the Federation Accounts Allocation Committee, FAAC, meeting as an excuse not to pay salaries to workers.

THE Nigerian  insurance industry recorded  15 percent increase in gross premium income  which rose to N363 billion in the 2017 financial year from N315.9 billion in 2016.

KATSINA—No fewer than 11 persons were said to have been killed by cholera outbreak, which hit six local government areas of Katsina State.

ABUJA—THE Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has said its blueprint for economic recovery includes pursuing deliberate policies capable of guaranteeing single-digit commercial lending rate across all productive sectors, if it secures the mandate of Nigerians in 2019.

KANO—Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje of Kano State, weekend boasted that his predecessor, Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso would  not win in his own village in 2019, let alone defeat  President Muhammadu Buhari.

ABUJA—NON teaching staff of the universities have threatened to resume their suspended strike following the inability of the federal government to fulfill its five weeks promise to the unions in March.

The Chairman, Association of Stockbroking Houses of Nigeria, ASHON, Chief Patrick Ezeagu, in this interview, spoke on the proposed establishment of Lagos Commodity and Futures Exchange (LCFE) in conjunction with the Lagos State Government, investors’ confidence in the stock market and other market activities.
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ABUJA—THE House of Representatives Committee on Customs has threatened to issue a bench warrant on 26 firms for failing to submit relevant documents over Customs duty waivers they were granted by the Federal Government

Six years after the introduction of cashless policy aimed at promoting electronic payment (epayment) across the country, over 80 percent of transactions especially in the retail space are still dominated by cash due to apathy of merchants and retails to epayment channels via Point of Sale (PoS).

President of the Chartered Insurance Institute of Nigeria, Mrs. Funmi Babington- Ashaye, in this interview speaks on efforts the Institute is making to grow insurance penetration. Excerpts

Born on February 4, 1987, Chief Lawrence Emareyo has continued to impact positively on lives of anyone that comes across him.

Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu on the sidelines of a series of meetings in Lagos last weekend took time to respond to questions on the commission’s preparations for the next general elections.
He gave his perspectives with a suffice of data particularly concerning the ongoing Continuous Voter Registration exercise in the country even as he frontally addressed criticisms raised against the commission.