The country’s Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) like their counterparts in other emerging economies are perceived as a high risk segment of the market for banks when it comes to lending. Unstable macroeconomic policies further make banks to be ...
Mr. Titi Omo-Ettu, the President of the Association of Telecommunications Companies of Nigeria (ATCON), in this interview with CHIMA AKWAJA, proffers suggestions on how to implement broadband regime, the new ICT policy and what government should ...
To ensure rapid development of the state’s economy key sectors, the Ekiti State Government will soon go into partnership with Keystone Bank. Education, health care, industrial development, tourism, women empowerment and agriculture among other se...
Enterprise Bank’s continued relationship with Union Bank UK Plc as an offshore partner is based on the fact that it makes a lot of business sense to deal with an institution with vast understanding of the local business environment, Ahmed Kuru, M...
Thirty-three years after its inauguration, the Ajaokuta Steel Company Limited, Ajaokuta, Kogi State, has succeeded only in running itself aground, in the process dashed the dream to industrialise Nigeria. However, the moribund state of affairs of the c...
The Borno Police Command, on Sunday announced the arrest of 11suspects involved in an attack on Mobile Police Base, Bama on Saturday. Mr Samuel Tizhe, the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) told newsmen in Maiduguri that one of the attackers was ki...
Minister of Education, Prof Ruqayyatu Rufai on Sunday said the nine new Federal Universities would commence academic session in April. Rufai made this known while addressing newsmen in Dutse after inspecting the permanent site of Federal University Dut...
A suicide car bomber attacked a Catholic church Sunday in the middle of Mass, killing at least 10 people in the latest violence targeting a church in a central Nigerian city plagued by unrest, a state official said. The bomb detonated as worshippers at...
Dr Dalhatu Tafida, the Nigerian High Commissioner to the UK, has advised diplomats to show more commitment in the discharge of their duties for effective service delivery. Tafida gave the advice on Saturday at a send-off dinner in honour of his Special...
The National Association of Women Journalists (NAWOJ) has called on the Federal Government to impose stiffer penalties for rapists to serve as a deterrent to others. This was contained in a communiqué issued at the end of its 2012 National Executive C...
A member of the House of Representatives, Rep. Odeneye Olusegun (ACN-Ogun), says Nigeria is not yet prepared for electronic voting. Olusegun said this in Abuja on Sunday in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN). He was reacting to comments...
Delta Government says it will train 75 Local Governments' officials under the Needs Assessment and Baseline Survey (NABS) programme of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The State Commissioner for Special Duties (MDGs), Mrs Victoria Ikechukwu...
Prof. Emmanuel Oladapo, a lecturer at Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, says poor environmental performance is hindering sustainable development in Nigeria Oladapo noted in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja on Saturday that a lo...
The Police in Gombe have commenced investigations into Friday’s killing of a ward head in Gombe metropolis by gunmen. Mr Ahmad Muhammad, the Police Public Relations Officer of the command, revealed this to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Gomb...
Gov. Kashim Shettima of Borno has expressed shock over last week’s killing of Alhaji Adamu Ahmadu, the Comptroller of the Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) in charge of Yobe and Borno. Ahmadu was killed on Tuesday at his residence in Potiskum, Yobe,...