Banks and other stakeholders in the financial sector have been advised to focus on priority areas in implementing financial inclusion so as to fast-track the achievement of the goals.

THE Nigerian Optometric Association, NOA, Edo State in its bid to reform, sanitize the profession has vowed to fish out bad heads and quacks and inject modern concepts of the profession into the association.

Enyimba International Football Club of Aba are now joint leaders with CARA Brazzaville of Congo in Group C after pipping Djoliba Athletic Club of Mali 1-0 in a CAF Confederation Cup, Matchday 5 encounter in Bamako.

The National Leader of All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, yesterday, accused Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki and Governor Aminu Waziri Tambuwal of defecting from the APC because the party refused to guarantee them automatic re-election tickets.

Governor, Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mr. Godwin Emefiele will address the third biennial bank customers summit organised by the Bank Customers Association Nigeria (BCAN). 

The Lagos State Government, in collaboration with the office of the Vice Presidency, organised SMEs Clinic for micro, small and medium enterprises, MSMEs, in the Lagos region previous week. At this backdrop, the President of the Association of Micro Entrepreneurs of Nigeria, AMEN, Prince Saviour Iche, in a chat with  Financial Vanguard, said the federal government must ensure proper monitoring of intervention funds made available to development banks for on-lending to the MSMEs in order to ease access to credit, among other issues. Excerpt:

Over two million muslims including 55, 000 Nigerians will today gathered on Mount Arafat, about 20 kilometers southeast of Makkah for the core hajj rites.

Delta State Commissioner on the board of Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, Dr Ogaga Ifowodo,  has assured  that the era of abandonment of projects in the commission was over, adding that the commission had set aside 70 per cent of its annual budget for completion of some  existing projects.

A GROUP, Igede People of Benue State in Diaspora, has joined in the condemnation of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, for demanding the minutes of the State Security Council meetings between 2015 and 2018, describing the act as harassment and intimidation taken to the extreme.

DUBAI in the United Arab Emirate is today unarguably one of the world’s wonders and a testimony to what visionary leaders could do to lift the fortunes of their nations.