THE chairman, Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, South Africa, Mr. Ekos Akpokabayen, has said Nigerian leaders need to love Nigerians, which he said is the motivation to do what is right for the people.

The number of micro, small and medium scale businesses in Nigeria grew by 12 percent to 41.543 million in 2017 from 37.067 million in 2013, the latest National Survey of Micro Small & Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) jointly conducted by National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) and Small and Medium Enterprises Development Agency of Nigeria (SMEDAN) has revealed.

Nominees for appointment into the Warri, Uvwie and Environs Special Development Agency have been screened and confirmed by the Delta State House of Assembly.

Few days ago when popular Mavin Records henchman, Michael Ajereh, a.k.a Don Jazzy shared a photo on social media, looking like a groom, with the caption; “No wife yet, no problem. Solo pre-wedding shoot testing”, it sparked speculations that he may have secretly gotten married to his secret lover or better still, he was preparing to do so anytime soon. But such is not the case as he has come out to shed light on the matter.

ANOTHER major disaster in the Nigerian aviation industry seemed imminent as a strange man climbed onto an Azman Airwing at the Ikeja Airport, Lagos on Friday, July 19, 2019.

HATE-filled ethnocentrism is rupturing the Nigeria state. Instead of dialogue and mutual understanding, Nigeria’s ethnic nationalities are locked in belligerence and brinkmanship.

Eleven years after Bakassi Peninsula was formally ceded by the Nigerian Government to Cameroun, the displaced indigenes of Bakassi have continued to lament the hardship, neglect and anguish which the unfortunate incident foisted on them. Many have lost any sense of belonging as neither the Nigerian Government nor the Camerounian Government identifies with their plight.

THE struggles and contributions of our nationalists towards the attainment of the country’s independence cannot be quantified or measured.

In a bid to build entrepreneurship and reduce unemployment, Lafarge Africa and Cuso International said they have collaborated to provide grants worth N10 million to 50 youths in their host communities in Cross River State.

Development Bank of Nigeria (DBN) is set to commence a lecture series in furtherance of its commitment to boost the drive for funding of micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) in Nigeria.

The vice presidential candidate of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Mr. Peter Obi, has expressed happiness over the emergence of Boris Johnson as the leader of the Conservative Party in Britain, saying it was a happy climax to what appeared to be a major leadership issue, with a lesson that contestants should sort out their problems without resorting to something unpleasant.

Members of Staff of Defunct Hydrocarbon Pollution Restoration Project, HYPREP have called on President Muhammadu Buhari to intervene in the nonpayment of their outstanding salaries, noting that after the approval he made on June 2018 for them to be paid, the ministry of Environment has refused to pay them.

Ozibo Ozibo, a political reporter with Daily Trust newspaper, Abuja, has been selected as one of the six recipients of Michigan State University’s merit-based PhD scholarship in African Studies for the 2019 Fall Semester, beginning August 16.

ABUJA—ON a day  the Senate made a U-turn on its vow to ensure thorough screening of all ministerial nominees, including former senators, there was an uproar in the upper chamber over the exclusion of an indigene of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Abuja in President Muhammadu Buhari’s 43-man list.

The Bank of Industry (BOI), reputed to be Nigeria’s oldest development financing institution, commenced operations as Investment Corporation of Nigeria (ICON) in 1959, incorporated as Nigerian Industrial Development Bank (NIDB) in 1964 and later reconstructed into BoI in 2001.