Stakeholders in the tourism industry have been urged to support the efforts of the Federal Government in the development of the sector in the country.

As Nigeria prepares to celebrate her golden jubilee on October 1, the National Vice President of the Federation of Tourism Associations of Nigeria (FTAN), South-South Zone, Mr. Andy Ehanire has expressed worry over the poor state of tourism infrastructures in the country.

The Director General of the Nigerian Tourism Development Corporation (NTDC), Otunba Olusegun Runsewe has assured that the Corporation would support the efforts of the Nigerian Copyright Commission at enforcing the payment of royalties to collective management organizations for commercial use of music in hotels and other related organizations.

Stockbrokers and other operators in the capital market have appealed to parties in the on-going crisis in the Nigerian capital market — the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) and Alhaji Aliko Dangote, President of the NSE to take things calmly pending, so as to ensure that the confidence and integrity reposed in the market is eroded

Standard Chartered Bank Nigeria has reinstated its commitment to providing highly secure electronic payment solutions to its customers in Nigeria.

The Independent Shareholders Association of Nigeria (ISAN), yesterday, re-affirmed their confidence in the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) as the nation’s famous window for wealth creation among Nigerians.

The World Bank will construct rural roads covering 458km in 19 local government areas of Kaduna State, an official said on Wednesday. Mr Musa Tete, the Kaduna State World Bank Project Coordinator for Rural Access and Mobility Project (RAMP), made the disclosure to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Kaduna.

THE number of Nigerians on the Internet is about 43.9 million, according to the International Telecommunication Union (ITU). Mr. Abasiama Idaresit Managing Director Wild Fusion, an internet marketing firm based in Ikoyi said:

Chairman, Senate Committee on Appropriation and Osun State Governorship aspirant on the platform of Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, Senator Iyiola Omisore has vowed to pick the sole ticket of the party at the state primary

GOVERNOR Olusegun Mimiko of Ondo State yesterday reacted to the suspension of the licence granted to the State University of Science and Technology, OSUTECH, in Okitipupa by the Nigerian University Commission, NUC, saying that it would ensure its reversal and the institution would soon commence operation

I am surprised that a number of these leaders did not seem to know what they were letting themselves into when, by their devious political manipulations, Prof. Osunbor was eased out of office as Governor of Edo State. Many would still recall that soon after Comrade Oshiomhole was declared winner of the disputed 2007 gubernatorial election by the Court of Appeal, one former frontline national leader of the PDP said, his happiness only thinly disguised, that the PDP loss of the political and administrative leadership of Edo State was the prize the party had to pay for its disunity.

THE Police in Ughelli, yesterday, shot dead one armed robbery suspect, while two others escaped with bullet injuries.

Dr Olusegun Abayomi Mimiko, Executive Governor of Ondo State has reiterated that there is no gainsaying that education is by all standard the major pivot on which human development, national progress, scientific and technological growth, social and environmental development revolves.

THE weekly Federal Executive Council, FEC, meeting yesterday approved N250 million for the production of a compendium in commemoration of the golden jubilee of Nigeria’s independence

AT least 61 prominent Deltans including one-time Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs in the State, Olorogun Ebenezer Okorodudu, Chief Edafevwotu Akpovire, Chief Tony Oviri, were yesterday appointed as Justice of the Peace, JP, by the state government.