“I don’t know if it is a crime for some entrepreneurs to create jobs. Government is punishing employers of labour with lots of taxes, rent charges and fees. A lot of exploitation is going on in the system. We are not saying we will not pay tax as good citizens but government should provide us with the services the taxes are meant for.

Minister of Lands, Housing and Urban Development, Mrs. Akon Eyakenyi, has reiterated the commitment of the federal government to the provision of affordable housing in the country. She gave the commendation at the commissioning of the 102 units ministerial pilot housing scheme in Suleja Niger State, which was fully funded by the Federal Mortgage Bank of Nigeria (FMBN).

The perennial crash of crude oil prices and the exposure of the Nigerian economy to financial crisis has pushed stakeholders and policy makers attention to non oil revenue generation. One sustainable source of foreign exchange generation is export of manufactures, solid minerals, and agricultural output with value addition. The Nigerian Export Import Bank is fast becoming the center of attraction to government and exporters to push the non oil foreign exchange earning drive through trade financing and productive efforts of exportable products from Nigeria

Nigeria’s online shopping mall, Shotpomydoor has announced free ingternational shipping services for customers shopping from the United States of America. The free shipping promo, according to Shoptomydoor, will apply to customers who purchase virtually anything from the USA with the exclusion of cars, heavy industrial machineries and a few other items, and will run for purchases made from the 12th to 30th of March, 2015.

Research suggests that flooding poses a threat to roughly 21 million people across the world every year, costing the global economy roughly $90.65 billion, with the potential for an estimated six-fold increase over the next 15 years. Data provided in connection with the launch of a new flood mitigation platform, the Aqueduct Global Flood Analyzer tool, co-developed by the World Resource Institute (WRI), Deltares, the Institute for Environmental Studies of the VU University Amsterdam, Utrecht University and PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency, highlights the economic severity of global flooding and its potential rise.