LAGOS State Security Council has held its last meeting for 2009, promising to re-enact the zero crime rate recorded in the state during last Yuletide. Addressing newsmen after the meeting which took place at the State House, Marina, commissioner of police, Marvel Akpoyibo, said the council has put several measures in place to ensure safety […]

THE Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, says an apex association for microfinance banks in Nigeria will not only strengthen and boost rural economy but is capable of strengthening the national economy, generally. Speaking at the recent harmonization of two strong microfinance banking associations in the country into the National Association of Microfinance Banks (NAMB) from […]

By GABRIEL ENOGHOLASE GOMBE State governor, Alhaji Danjuma Goje, declared yesterday at Okada, near Benin that those asking President Umaru Yar’Adua to resign from office on grounds of ill-health were doing so with a view to gaining  power through the back  door. His Edo State counterpart, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, joined the call, appealing to Nigerians […]

By UDO IBUOT FOLLOWING the suggestion by the speaker of House of Representatives, Mr Dimeji Bankole, that  Ogun State Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) be “rearranged” as a means of moving the party forward, a member of the House of Representatives has described the opinion  as ill-timed and unnecessary. Mr Kayode Amusan, a member representing Obafemi […]

. ..Plot for a fresh 8-year mandate for North begins Perhaps, it would have had more impact had the polity not been poisoned as it has.  But the sudden, seemingly whimsical call by a section of the political leadership in Nigeria on President Umar Musa Yar’Adua to resign from office is already raising more dust […]