Dr. M.A Ayeni, speaking on the topic, ‘Establishing Nigeria as a Hub for Financial Services in Africa’, affirmed Nigeria has what it takes to become the financial services hub of Africa, given its widely acknowledged economic potentials and human resources. He said that with the right vision, it is possible to engineer the country’s evolution into the financial nerve centre of Africa, and develop the financial sector into a growth catalyst that will enable Nigeria’s transformation into one of the 20 largest economies in the world.

Research and Development (R&D) is no doubt the surest and fastest way for any nation to boost its economy. Experts agree that this is the age of knowledge/intelligence. Knowledge, they say, is power and so for any nation to emerge as a world power, it must have a solid knowledge base. Is it any wonder then that some of the most powerful nations on earth became powerful not because of their abundant natural resources but because of their knowledge base?

The World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE) has announced six ground-breaking projects from around the world as winners of the 2012 WISE Awards with the theme; Transforming Education.

Perhaps, Nigeria would have joined the likes of Germany, Japan, India and Malaysia as an automobile manufacturer as far back as 1997 when Dr. Ezekiel Izuogu, an electrical/electronics engineer, a doctor of science and lecturer of communications and electronics engineering at the Federal Polytechnic, Owerri, made a prototype of his first ever all-African car which he named Z-600.

Teachers in public primary schools are to embark on indefinite nationwide strike on September 24, if the government fails to pay their 27.5 per cent Teachers Special Allowances (TSA)on or before Monday, September 24, the National President, Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT), Comrade Michael Alogba Olukoya has said.