As part of the effort to revolutionise Information Communication Technology, ICT, in Africa and Nigeria, MainOne Cable Company has introduced the first fibre optic cable worth $240 million about N36 billion.

Ogun State Government has dragged the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, to court over the arrest of the officials of the state, for their alleged role in fraud and financial malpractices.

WORRIED by the incessant bank robberies and insecurity in the country, the Ondo State Governor, Dr Olusegun Mimiko has ordered for the purchase of five Armoured Personnel Carriers, APCs, and 500 bullet proof vests for policemen in the state to combat the hoodlums.

AHEAD of primaries of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, for the 2011 general elections, the National Chairman of the party, Dr. Okwesilieze Nwodo said yesterday that he would ensure that the party’s constitution was amended where political appointees can no longer be automatic delegates

It is a season of birthday celebrations in Lagos. It started with Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, who turned 76 last week and then Chief Michael Otedola, Third Republic governor of Lagos, who was 84 years on July 16.

UMBRELLA body for editors in the country, the Nigerian Guild of Editors, NGE, has advised Nigerian journalists not to allow the ordeal of four of their colleagues who recently regained freedom from kidnappers to discourage them from performing their duties in any part of the country

DESPITE persistent controversy trailing the introduction of post-Unifed Tertiary Matriculation Examination (Post-UTME) formerly called post-UME since 2005 by the Federal Government, university Vice Chancellors are resolute in retaining the policy.

THE claims and counter claims over alleged insolvency of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, came to a head at a hearing of the Senate Committee on Petroleum Upstream, yesterday, as the Group Managing Director, GMD, Austine Oniwon, was confronted with his letter claiming that the corporation was insolvent.

THE immediate past Edo State representative on the Board of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, Mr Mathew Iduoriyenkenwen, has warned that Niger Delta youths, will resist any attempt by “a cabal in the North” to stop President Goodluck Jonathan from contesting the 2011 presidential election.

Former lead-ers of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger-Delta, MEND, yesterday, threatened to commence a “fresh oil war,” if President Goodluck Jonathan does not forward, within a reasonable time, a Bill to the National Assembly to expunge the Land Use Decree from the 1999 constitution.

THE plot against President Goodluck Jonathan’s emergence as presidential candidate of the ruling Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, gathered momentum, yesterday, as the Plateau State Chapter of the Northern Political Forum, NPLF, threatened that the North would pull out of the PDP.

NIGERIA Labour Congress, NLC, has faulted the planned abolition of Education Tax and Education Trust Fund, ETF, saying the fund remains one of the strongest and viable sources of fund to the education sector in the face of government’s continued indifference to funding educational activities.

The people of Ikyobo village in Ushongo local government area of Benue State are still counting their losses and mourning their dead following the mysterious crashing of a large tree branch at the centre of village market square which claimed the lives of no fewer than eight persons while scores sustained varying degrees of injury.

After about 18 months of a struggle for a new national minimum wage, organised labour has got the nod of other social partners; government and private sector employers represented by the Nigeria Employers Consultative Association ( NECA) for a review of the national minimum wage from N5,500 in 2000 to N18,000.

ONCE more we are at the verge of petroleum products scarcity without knowing what led us to it. The relative supply stability of the past few months is being threatened by the opaque practice the Petroleum Products Pricing and Regulatory Agency, PPPRA, is instituting, supposedly in the public interest.