THERE appears to be anxiety over who becomes the boss of the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, as the presidential nominee for the post of the Executive Vice Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of the Commission, Dr. Eugene Juwah, and three other commissioner-designates, including the Chairman, Mr. Peter Egbe Igho, will today, face the Senate Committee on Communications for a screening exercise, after which they will be confirmed.

AIR Nigeria, has named the duo of Engr. Christopher Kwasau and Mrs. Temitope Fagbemi as heads of the Directorate of Engineering & Maintenance and Human Resources respectively as part of measures to re-position the airline for profit maximisation.

Stockbrokers have dismissed speculation about imminent bubble burst in the Nigerian stock market, even as the performance indicator, the market capitalisation has risen by from N 4.293 trillion at the beginning of the year to close last Thursday at N6.127 trillion

The Federal High Court has held that the Nigerian Press Council Decree No. 85 of 1992 as amended by the Nigeria Press Council (Amendment) Decree No. 60 of 1999, constituted a gross violation of the rights guaranteed under Section 39 of the 1999 Constitution, and was, therefore, unconstitutional, null and void.

Delta Air Lines has reported its biggest quarterly profit in ten years, chalking up $549 million during the period..
“Delta’s profit this quarter is our best result in a decade and proof AtAhat our plan has positioned us well as the economy begins its recovery.

International Monetary Fund’s board has said that Central Banks of member countries should focus on monetary policy in pursuit of price stability which is the major function of Central Banks across the world stating that, institutional arrangements would need to be put in place to ensure that the role of central banks in the design and application of macro-prudential measures does not impinge on their ability to deliver price stability, which may require further thinking on appropriate governance frameworks.

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has been commended for proposed regulatory requirements of minimum share capital of N 5 billion for primary mortgage institutions (PMIs).

The Association of Housing Corporations of Nigeria (AHCN), umbrella body of all the housing corporations and related housing agencies in Nigeria, has called for the establishment of a Housing Development Fund (HDF) to help rescue the housing industry in the country, especially in the face of the current economic meltdown which has been aggravated by the banking crisis.

The pragmatic attempt by the federal Government to move Nigeria Football forward which it later rescinded due to pressure from well meaning Nigerians should not be misconstrued. If we weigh the intended action of the government and the reaction of the masses objectively, the simple deduction is that we now have a listening president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria who knows how and when to tag along with the masses.

It was indeed a day of joy and celebrations for no fewer than 650 widows, orphans, less- privileged persons and jobless youths in Benue State who were the direct beneficiaries and graduates of the Sev-Av Foundation Crafts and Skills Acquisition Centres in Gboko and Vandeikya local government areas of the state.

When a colleague from Brila FM first called to sound me out on the purported friendly against South Korea, I was very angry and said so. I asked him, “ what friendly, why?”

Indications emerged last weekend that domestic airlines owe aviation agencies in the country because of the poor service rendered the former by the latter.

INSPECTOR General of Police, Ogbonna Onovo, said, weekend, that at the last count, there were about 500 kidnapping suspects in Police cells across the country with many of them having confessed to the criminal act and others caught in the act.

No matter from what angle you look, what you see of Nigeria is a bleak future unless something drastic is done and pronto. Because of greed and corruption, we are, as former Governor of Cross River State, Mr Donald Duke, put it in a talk he gave at a Save Nigeria Group forum in Abuja recently, “designing a system that would destroy us in the end”.

Consumers across the nation will now enjoy faster and effective relief from pain and fever as GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) Consumer Nigeria plc has launched the new Panadol with Optizorb.