The Emir of Ilorin and chairman, Kwara State Traditional Council, Alhaji Ibrahim Sulu –Gambari, yesterday elevated the Senate President, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki to the position of Waziri Garin of Ilorin, the Traditional Prime Minister of the emirate.

We wish to also alert government to the need to pay similar attention to the various bridges, flyovers and causeways built between the 1960s and the oil boom years of the 1970s. Even though the Federal Government had announced its intention to do just that in September last year, little activity in that direction has been noticed.

To avert fresh crisis in the Niger Delta region, Shell  Petroleum Development Company, SPDC, has been urged  to comply with a court order by Justice George  Omereji of a Rivers State High Court against it, delivered  on March 10, 2011.

THE out-going President, Chartered Insurance Institute of Nigeria, CIIN, Mrs. Funmi Babington-Ashaye, has said that the insurance industry must embrace digitization to remain afloat and relevant in the economy. Babington-Ashaye, who stated this at her valedictory lecture in Lagos, said that the insurance industry as a whole and brokers in particular need to adapt to new styles of interacting with customers.

PORT HAR-COURT— Believers under the aegis of Concerned Christians of Rivers State, have tasked President Muhammadu Buhari to stop the continuous killings in parts of the country, adding that Christians were target of the killings.

THE South Africa President, Cyril  Ramaphosa, was in Abuja earlier, this month (July 2018), to participate in the 25th  anniversary and annual General meeting of the African Export Import Bank (Afreximbank). Ramaphosa, used the opportunity to call on Nigeria, not to delay signing the agreement for the African Continental Free Trade Area (CFTA).

It is affecting every aspect of the Nigeria economic life and the MfBs cannot be shielded. If bombs are exploding and herdsmen are shooting, then security of life and properties comes first. The same way every other business is affected MfBs are also affected; so nobody is safe in such an environment. MfBs are also affected too. 

THE ongoing Akpo-Mbaraoye Achina-Ogwu Nganga-Onne-Agbudu-Ogboji road awarded by former Governor Peter Obi and inherited by Governor Willie Obiano has been cut off by gully erosion.

A Catholic priest in Imo State, Reverend Father Kizito Onyeka yesterday said that due to  the level of reported killings in the country, citizens are now in search of a good shepherd to rescue them.

WORKERS in Ekiti State, under the aegis of Ekiti State Organized Labour, yesterday, issued a 14-day ultimatum to Governor Ayo Fayose to pay all arrears of salaries and pensions of retirees.

The convoy of Solomon Dalung, Minister of Youth and Sports, was involved in a ghastly accident on Saturday around Akko village, along Gombe Airport Road.

ABUJA—House of Representatives joint committee on Public Accounts and Finance probing recovered looted funds from 1999-2016, weekend, vowed to conclude its report if invited Ministries, Departments and Agencies of government, MDAs, failed to appear before it tomorrow.

ABUJA—All Progressives Congress, APC, has reacted to threats by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to boycott the 2019 general elections, saying such threat was borne out of the fact that the opposition party now understands that its end is near.

Pension Fund Administrators, PFAs, are keen on investing in infrastructure but can only invest in investible infrastructure instruments that can guarantee their retirees’ funds. The major challenge with diversification of pension fund is unavailability of investment instruments. One of the key channels we could invest in as a means of diversifying the portfolio is infrastructure, however, infrastructure is not investible.

ROYAL Exchange Plc said  it recorded N13.8 billion gross written premium, GWP, for the year ended December 31st 2017, representing 10.4 percent increase from N12.5 billion recorded the previous year. The company also recorded N7.1 billion net premium income for the period, while the underwriting profit stood at N7.6 billion.