NIGERIA'S Bank of Industry (BoI) has successfully completed a landmark €1bn guaranteed senior loan facility to further enhance its capacity to deliver on its mandate in line with the government's economic diversification agenda.

NIGERIAN women living in Scotland can now access free sanitary products after the country became the first nation on earth to take on period poverty by offering tampons and other female products to anyone in need of them.

SEVERAL Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) leaders have met with the presidential candidate of the Labour Party former Anambra State governor Peter Obi heightening fears of a mass defection ahead of next year's elections.

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[1] NNPC
My stance on this has always been clear. Privatise the NNPC with the government holding say a 25% stake in it. Then expand its operations to cover manufacturing, automobile assembly, food processing, petrochemicals, power generation, railway equipment manufacture, etc. Within a year, the NNPC should be floated on the New York and London stock exchanges with a market capitalisation of at least $200bn

GOVERNOR Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State us reported to have led a delegation of All Progressives Congress (APC) leaders from the northeast to meet Asiwaju Bola Tinubu with a  list of stringent demands which must be met if he wants their support.

ALL Progressives Congress (APC) aspirants who stood down during the party's March 26 national convention on the orders of President Muhammadu Buhari with the promise that they will get their nomination fees refunded are yet to be paid.

OHANAEZE Ndigbo has lashed out at attorney-general Abubakar Malami for saying that the Nigerian government will not intervene in the ongoing trial of former deputy senate president Senator Ike Ekweremadu in the UK stressing that he should be supported.

AFROBEAT musician Oluwatobiloba Anidugbe popularly known as Kizz Daniel has made it up to his Tanzanian fans who he let down earlier this month when he failed to appear for a show by staging a free performance for them in Dar es Salam.

NIGERIA'S Super Falconets have booked their place in the quarter-finals of the U20 Women's World Cup currently taking place in Costa Rica with a 1-0 win over South Korea in the second Group C match last night.

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Nigeria is estimated to earn about $37bn a year from the sale of petroleum products. We simply have to match that from the export of agricultural products within the next eight years.