lagos—A university don, Professor Dagogo Fubara, yesterday in Lagos stated the challenges facing oceans in Africa as indiscriminate dumping, unregulated fishing, lack of adequate knowledge of the seas including inadequate hydrographic information.

The Central Bank of Nigeria(CBN), yesterday, jerked up its Monetary Policy Rate (MPR)to 14 per cent, attracting criticism from business experts who predicted that the hike will lead to increased corporate failures, unemployment and decline in the nation’s stock market.

ABUJA — THE Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs has begun the screening of Ambassadorial nominees forwarded to the Senate by President Muhammadu Buhari.

Ibadan—THE seven- week face off between Governor Abiola Ajimobi of Oyo State and workers in the state has finally come to an end as the strike embarked upon by the latter has been suspended.

LAGOS — The Federal Government’s new foreign exchange regime has affected the population of Nigerian students studying abroad, particularly in Britain, officials of Abbey DLD Group of Colleges, a UK-based college, have said.