Armstrong Dark Ale, a new stout drink geared towards appealing to strong and proud Nigerian men, is fast making in road into the Nigerian black beer market.

Vanguard investigation showed that Investors have started to move their funds out of the country to neighbouring countries in response to falling deposit rates which crashed to three per cent in the last two months though the CBN monetary policy rate is 6 per cent.

Despite achieving an inspiring growth rate of 7% per annum since 2001, Nigeria remains crippled with massive unemployment levels that continue to exact a considerable toll on its socio-economic prospects. Credible data on this count is lacking for most of sub-Saharan Africa, but Abuja concedes that 70% of the population was jobless as recently as 2007.

Florence Modupe, a banker, on Friday, appeared before an Igbosere Magistrate”s Court in Lagos charged with stealing N560,000 from a customer”s joint account in Zenith Bank Plc.

Diamond Bank has continued to put smiles on the faces of its customers as one of its Trans Amadi branch customers and a staff of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Mr. Luke Benedict Ibanga, has become the latest beneficiary of the Bank’s numerous consumer rewards, when he emerged winner of a free loan repayment in the first phase of the Honda/Diamond Bank special auto loan scheme’s draw which held in Lagos recently.