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1. Microsoft and 88mph have announced the launch of the Microsoft Ventures Program for entrepreneurs in Nigeria which hopes to help improve start-ups’ productivity by offering tools, resources, expertise and routes to market around the world. 2. The Experience, which is said to be one of the largest musical events in Africa and the largest gospel group event in the world, had a turn-out of about 600,000 people who gathered with the sole purpose of worshipping God. 3. A Nigerian tissue seller, Peter Angelina, 36, has been recognised and given the good Samaritan title for returning some 16 thousand Euros he found in a briefcase in Spain. 4. Fidelity Bank Plc at the weekend gave out a total of N11.62 million to 33 lucky customers in the fourth draw of its ‘Save-4-Scholarship’ promo. At the end of the draw, Ohaeri Charles Ukachukwu emerged the winner of the N2 million star prize. 5. The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has said airlines are profiting from falling oil prices, which are projected to remain below $100 dollars till middle of 2015 and beyond. Director General and CEO of IATA, Tony Tyler, projected that airlines in the region would make about $200 million in 2015 which is an improvement on the break-even performance in 2014. 6. Centre Base Consult (CBC) Limited has unveiled plans to deliver a N10 billion worth of housing units in the residential area of the Warri Industrial Business Park (WIBP) known as “Park Garden”. The project proposes about 400 units of houses on six hectares of land space incorporating different types of structures with adequate touch of luxury, comfort and style. 7. Zainab Ashadu is hoping to change negative stereotypes about Nigerians through her designer handbags whose modern, colourful creations use the ancient art of tanning and leather-dyeing from the country’s north. “I think people like the story behind the bags. They like the fact that the bag has roots and origins,” the 32-year-old told AFP at her bustling workshop in a working class district of Lagos. 8.A Nigerian, Osarieme Omonuwa, has broken the jinx at the University of Reading to become the first black woman to earn a first class degree in the history of the 121-year-old institution. 9. The decline in the price of crude oil in the international market may have forced the Federal Government to increase its target for non-oil revenue from N3.28tn in the 2014 budget to N3.53tn in 2015. 10. As a result of the Federal Government’s Agri­cultural Transforma­tion Agenda (ATA), private sector (OPS) investments in organised fertilizer manu­facturing have expanded with N840 billion (about $5 billion) within the past three years.  
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This article was first published on 15th December 2014

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