Everyday pages of newspapers, billboards, radio and television stations are awash with winners in various promos. Viewers and those who had participated and never won a prize tend to agree that promos are gimmicks employed by promoters to reap-off consumers or to grow their market share.

It has been revealed that less than twenty percent of all state capitals and major urban centres across Nigeria have any form of physical development plans to guide their growth. This implies that eighty percent of the major cities have no development plan.

Housing delivery in Nigeria has been greatly hampered by the uncoordinated policies of various tiers of governments on land management and administration.

Two years into the Central Bank of Nigeria’s intervention in eight ailing banks in the country, signs are that no improvement has been recorded in the rescued banks as their financial situation have not improved.

Nigeria, which contributes three percent of the world’s oil production, aspires to be among the world’s 20 richest countries come 2020. While one would think the country plans to invest massively in its oil industry to achieve this feat, the government thinks otherwise and instead plans to invest in the solid mineral sector to spur economic growth and realize its 2020 aspirations.

The Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN disclosed recently that the desire of the Federal Government to earn more volume of naira is responsible for the falling value of the currency saying it is difficult to justify exchange rate depreciation where prices were high and the country was an import- dependent economy.

A major challenge before the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and the 16 mobile payment licensees is how to prevent the use of mobile payment services for criminal activities. This however requires an acceptable standard of verifying the identity of mobile payment users so as to ensure adherence to the Know Your Customer (KYC) requirement.

NCR Nigeria Plc has introduced a number of cutting edge security and dispute management solutions for Automated Teller Machines (ATM) that will enable banks in the country meet up with the Central Bank of Nigeria’s guidelines for ATM.

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) is considering imposing limits and charges on cash lodgements as part of measures to discourage use of cash for transactions.

HITV was never set up to sell football only, it was circumstances that led us using football at inception as our main stay content, we have used football to gain the high level of acceptance we hoped to get, now is the time to go back to our original business model which offers Nigerians unparalleled entertainment.”