ACCESS Bank has announced plans to invest the $1.7m it recently raised at its charity polo tournament in the UK at the Guards Polo Club in Surrey towards improving the state of education in Nigeria.

LEEDS United and Tottenham Hotspurs have joined the race to sign PSV Eindhoven's Nigeria-eligible winger Noni Madueke before the close of the summer transfer window ahead of long-term admirers Leicester City.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] We shall provide loans with interest rates of no more than 5% interest to anyone wishing to delve into agriculture. Such loans will be tailored towards buying hybrid seedlings, pesticides, herbicides, fertilisers and farming equipment like tractors, water tanks, silos and barns

NIGERIAN Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) officials have suspended the air transport licence (ATL) and air operator certificate (AOC) of Dana Airlines indefinitely following the carrier's inability to meet its financial obligations.

GOVERNOR Dapo Abiodun of Ogun State has commissioned the first ever fibre optic cable factory in West Africa when he opened the Coleman Technical Industries Limited (CTIL) facility in Sagamu.

NIGERIA'S House of Representatives has passed for second reading a bill seeking to establish a Tax Crimes Commission that will guarantee the expansion of the nation's tax net and drastically boost government revenue.

SEVERAL of the hired hands asked to impersonate Christian clergymen at the recent unveiling of the All Progressives Congress (APC) vice presidential candidate Senator Kashim Shettima have protested the fact that they have not been paid the promised sum of N100,000.

NIGERIA'S Super Falcons refused to train yesterday in protest of the fact that they have not been paid their due bonuses at the ongoing Women's Africa Cup of Nations (Wafcon) currently taking place in Mexico.

Ayo Akinfe 

[1] As we all reel from the effects of yesterday's charade of fake bishops in Abuja, it is really time to look ourselves in the mirror and ask why we are so off the mark in all we do

LAGOS State government plans to introduce a crime data bank and bodywork cameras for members of its Lagos State Neighbourhood Safety Agency (LNSA) as part of efforts to rebrand the agency as its steps up the fight against crime.