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LAGOS, Feb 23 (Reuters) - Nigeria's pegged exchange rate policy appears unsustainable and undermines government efforts to attract investment and diversify the economy away from oil, the chairman of local lender Stanbic said on Tuesday.

RIO DE JANEIRO, Feb 23 (Reuters) - João Santana, the architect of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff's 2010 and 2014 campaigns, landed in Brazil from the Dominican Republic on Tuesday and was taken in a police jet to the city of Curitiba, the epicenter of a massive corruption probe, his spokesman said.

SAO PAULO/LIMA, Feb 23 (Reuters) - Brazilian police are investigating potential bribes of $3 million from Latin America's largest engineering conglomerate Odebrecht to Peruvian President Ollanta Humala, court documents showed.

Sunvault Energy and Edison Power Co. have agreed to develop a solar power plus large-scale energy storage project in Delaware.

LONDON, Feb 23 (Reuters) - When Russia and three OPEC members led by Saudi Arabia agreed a week ago to work on a global deal to freeze oil output, they could not have been more specific about the timeframe from which the freeze would start - January 2016.

WASHINGTON, Feb 23 (Reuters) - U.S. businesses fell behind on more loans for commercial and industrial ventures during the fourth quarter, a sign the global economic slowdown is dragging more heavily on America's economy.

WASHINGTON, Feb 23 (Reuters) - The militarization of facilities in the South China Sea does not help efforts to resolve maritime claims there, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said before he was to meet Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Tuesday.

Feb 23 (Reuters) - Saudi Oil Minister Ali Al-Naimi urged global energy executives to "stick together" through the worst industry slump in decades, saying he was confident that growing support for a deal to freeze output would ease a global glut.

Statkraft AS and partners including a Credit Suisse-backed fund will invest 1.1 billion euros ($1.2 billion) in wind power in central Norway, reviving a project after bringing down costs and boosting capacity.

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