The British American Tobacco Nigeria (BATN) has expressed its support for appropriate regulation of tobacco industry. This, the company believes, will help reduce the impact of tobacco on public health in the country. The company made this known at the public hearing for the anti-tobacco bill in the Senate.

Moneywise, Nigeria’s premier personal finance company, is set to publish “The Lagos Wealth Report”.
The report, which will be published in September 2009, will be the first in the series of reports on how state governments in Nigeria utilise public funds to create wealth for their citizens.

Ahead of its 2009 Annual General Meeting (AGM), operators and other stakeholders have commended the Oceanic International Bank Plc for writing off bad loans as directed by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN).

The assailant who is believed to be a serial killer it was also learnt raped one of the victims after stabbing her to death.
Vanguard gathered that the tragic incident occurred at 5p.m in one of the sparsely populated new lay out area of the Etegwe suburb which presently could not be accessed by cars.

Stakeholders who met at the Petroleum Club in Ikoyi disclosed that since the beginning of the year, they had seen about four different versions of the bill, adding that the one presented by Dr. Rilwanu Lukman, the Minister of Petroleum Resources in Abuja at a stakeholders’ forum, was markedly different from that which was in the public domain.

The other projects which Yabatech proposed to the ETF Visitation team is procurement and deployment of interactive teaching and learning platforms for each of 100 model lecture rooms, spread across all departments and provision of e-books, audio-visual/multimedia equipment and furniture in the library, estimated to cost N100m and N50m respectively.

The group also condemned the decision of the Federal Government to spend N15 billion for the upgrading of the National College of Petroleum Studies, Kaduna.

IT is a long way away from the days when we bought and sold with cowries; in the days when a lady with uncommon whiteness of denture would be referred to as eyin fun j’owo, in tribute to the glossy whiteness of the cowrie.

Addressing the delegates, President of NUPENG, Comrade Peter Akpatason, praised members for standing steadfast despite the challenges posed by globalisation, global economic recession and the crisis in the Niger Delta which has remained the greatest threat to job security of members.

Part of the current Law (as it was until 30 June 2009 ) states among other issues that ‘a defending player who deliberately steps over the goal line into his team’s goal, (which is technically outside the field of play) in an attempt to place an attacking player technically in the offside position is to be regarded as having behaved in an unsporting manner