As part of its Corporate Social Responsibility(C.S.R), Diamond Bank Plc, a company quoted on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) has continued to contribute its quota to the development of the economy as it rewarded a group of teachers for excellence in their chosen profession as part of efforts to improve the quality of education and to serve as motivation.

Guinness Nigeria Plc has released it’s sales report for the year 2010, which it puts at N109 billion, an increase of 23 percent over the previous year.

Almost 11 months after the wife of former military ruler, General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida, IBB, lost his wife, Maryam Babangida to cancer, grief has again struck the family of IBB as the mother of his late wife passed on, Tuesday.

After over one year and six months that Omatek Ventues Plc declared dividend for the financial year ended June 30, 2009, some of its shareholders are complaining of non receipts of their dividend warrants.

Odogi-Kabba (Kogi)—reconstruction of the 200-year old Odogi traditional market in Kabba-Bunu Local Government of Kogi has commenced.

The Nigerian Association of Chambers of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture (NACCIMA), Tuesday, called for the assessment of the first phase of National Economic Empowerment and Development Strategy (NEEDS) policy.

FORMER Transport Minister Chief Ojo Maduekwe has given the port reform of the Federal Government a pass mark saying “that a lot of progress has been made”.

It was a Sallah tragedy in Ilorin, Tuesday, as four members of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, died in a stampede at a political gathering while six others were rushed to the hospital.

GOVERNOR Peter Obi of Anambra State has commended renowned novelist and doyen of literature, Prof. Chinua Achebe, on his 80th birthday, saying the people of the state would ever remain proud of him.

Human rights group, International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law, Intersociety, has warned against making students of Anambra State University, ANSU, scapegoats through astronomical increase in school fees to meet the demand of striking lecturers of the university.

Anambra State Commissioner for Economic Planning and Budget, Prof. Stella Okunna, has said the state government was determined to achieve the Millennium Development Goals, MDGs, in 2015.

Political aspirants for 2011 elections in Abia State have been advised to engage on issues-based campaign and avoid personality attack on fellow aspirants.

SOME residents of airport hillview layout in Enugu, whose land was recently acquired by the Federal Airport Authority of Nigeria, FAAN, and Enugu State government for the expansion of Akanu Ibiam International Airport, have condemned the government’s decision to move into the land without first paying compensation to the affected owners of the land.

THE Senior Special Assistant to the former Delta State Governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan on Research, Mr. Innocent Ojefia, has said Chief Edwin Clark does not parade core members of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in his Delta State Elders, Leaders and Stakeholders Forum.

Former Accountant-General of old Bendel State, Mr Simeon Eyoma Okotie, JP, is dead, aged 79. He died at the Atlanta Medical Centre, Atlanta, Georgia, in the United States.