The Export-Import Bank of the United States, commonly known as Ex-Im Bank, is an independent federal agency that helps create and maintain U.S. jobs by financing the purchases of U.S.-manufactured capital goods and related services by guaranteeing or insuring loans to creditworthy international buyers.

Harare — PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe will only anoint a successor in his Zanu PF party after elections, which the 88-year-old leader wants held this year hoping to win against all odds. Mugabe insisted last week he would not quit power until after all foreign-owned businesses have ceded majority ownership to blacks.

Gunmen who stormed an early morning Christian worship service in Bayero University Kano, BUK, yesterday, killing two professors, five academic doctors and 9 others came fully armed with improvised explosive devices, (IEDs), and AK-47 rifles.Video Clip