President Goodluck Jonathan said on Tuesday in Abuja that the Federal Government was implementing policies and measures to encourage greater participation of foreign investors in Nigeria.

INTERNATIONAL Labour Organisation, ILO, has said that only about 20 per cent of the working age population in Nigeria and the rest of the world and their families have effective access to comprehensive social protection systems.

The President of the African Court on Human and Peoples Rights, Justice Gerald Niyungeko, weekend, in Banjul, the Gambia, said that lack of political will was the major problem facing the enforcement of human rights in the continent.

Nigeria Football Federation is to cough out $300,000 (about N46m) fine, for opting out of today’s (November 17) friendly match against Iran in Tehran.

The outgoing Head of the Civil Service of the Federation, Mr. Stephen Oronsaye, has said that as he retired from the Federal Civil Service, he left as a fulfilled man who got divine assistance to achieve his mandate within the short time he held the position.

Can Nigeria Leapfrog into the Information Age?The man with wisdom is a shining torch that sheds light in our darkness and guides us out of our ignorance. I am often asked: “How do we build a stronger Nigeria through technological innovation?”

The Citizen Popular Party, CPP, has called on Muslim faithful to use the occasion of this year’s Eid-el-Kabir celebration to pray for emergence of a president with fear of God during the forthcoming 2011 presidential election.

Operators of Bus Rapid Transit, BRT, scheme in Lagos State, Lagos First BRT Cooperative Society Limited, have begun a one-year continuous training programme for its workforce, including management staff, bus pilots and officers as well as support staff.

Due to the poor representation and perceived marginalisation of women in politics with Nigeria toping the list by 6% in Africa, KIND, an advocacy group for women participation in politics, with its allies, has launched an activation project to train women political aspirants interested in 2011 general elections.

Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, has cautioned Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, National Chairman, Okwesilieze Nwodo over his utterances, saying he risks talking himself into irrelevance and becoming a butt of jokes if he continues to tread on the path of flippancy.

A PEOPLES Democratic Party, PDP, female aspirant for Ika federal constituency in the National Assembly, Dr. Isioma Okobah, has donated hospital equipment worth N100million to Central Hospital Agbor and four health centers in Ika South Council Area.

ITSEKIRI Community in Great Britain, has awarded scholarships to five children of some Itsekiri youths who died fighting in the seven years Ijaw/Itsekiri uprising, even as they also donated a laptop computer and printer to the Itsekiri Language Department of the College of Education, Warri, Delta State

JUST as many were ruing the unfortunate event of last Monday when ex-militants in their hundreds barricaded the Mbiama bridge end of the East-West road in Rivers State, a border area between Bayelsa and Rivers some yet to be identified gunmen in the wee hours of Friday yet again violated the peace of the riverine settlement of Opokuma in the Kolokuma-Opokuma Local Government Area of Bayelsa State, leaving in their trail death and destruction of properties.

The event was preceded by an avalanche of spam messages from the governor and his staff workers, who, almost every hour, harassed their contacts with reminders of Sir Ikedi Ohakim’s day to declare for a second term in office at the Dan Anyiam Stadium, Owerri.

Romance that went sourJUST like the roundabout movement of two lizards around a palm tree, it is not straightforward, except for those that read between the lines, to decode the candid grounds for the current political war in Delta state, which had witnessed the leader of one of the political kingdoms, the former governor of the state, Chief James Ibori, running to Dubai, some months ago, like a refugee, and his anointed heir, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan, removed as governor, a little over a week ago, precisely November 9, by a Court of Appeal.