The number of companies raising short term debt through commercial papers (CPs) programme from the capital market ballooned last year following reluctance by deposit money banks to allocate funds to the private sector.

NIGERIA became a besieged country in this year’s general elections. It is like the Republic  is at war. Even the wars against terrorism, banditry and criminality, have taken   a back seat. One main campaign leading to the  elections, is that all voters must get their Permanent Voter’s Card, PVC. Even to be seen walking on the streets on election days which have been decreed ‘No Movement’  days, can invite dire consequences.  But you can be saved arrest if you prove with your PVC that you are on your way to vote. 

Some members of the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has called for increased targeted lending to Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs)  to address the nation’s sluggish economic growth.

WHILE Nigerians were busy with the last minute preparations for the rescheduled presidential and National Assembly elections last week, the entire art community, the visual art and the curatorial field in Nigeria suffered a huge blow with the news of the death of Bisi Silva, the artistic director of the radical Centre for Contemporary Art, CCA, Lagos and a juror of the 2013 Venice Biennale.

A FORMER local government chairman of Akwanga under the interim management committee in Nasarawa State, Yakubu Kwanta, narrowly escaped being lynched yesterday, over alleged involvement in ballot box snatching.