Lead City University (LCU) Ibadan, Vice-Chancellor, Professor Johnson Bandele Aladekomo has reminded new graduates at the 3rd convocation ceremonies of the institution to bear in mind that they constitute a mirror through which the university can be assessed.

The World Bank Country Director, Onno Ruhl, has encouraged commercial banks in the country to grant credit facility to the Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) company, asserting that the sector is crucial to the survival of the real sector.

A Constitutional lawyer, Dr. Akpo Mudiaga-Odje, has urged the National Assembly to retain the use of the old 1999 constitution for the 2011 elections.

GOVERNMENT last week reiterated its commitment to reducing the cost of doing businesses in the nation’s seaport and affirmed that it had commenced the process of articulation of policy frameworks that will enable the nation meet its logistics challenges.

Former Nigeria international, Joe Erico has hailed Super Falcons goaleador, Perpetua Nkwocha who was crowned Africa’s best woman footballer of the year by the Confederation of African Football, even as he expressed reservation on the choice of Cameroun legend, Samuel Eto’o Fils as the 2010 CAF footballer of the year.

ABDUCTORS of the female medical doctor attached to the Federal Medical Centre, FMC, Asaba, Dr. Esi Onwuemene, have released her after collecting N1 million as ransom.

CAF President, Issa Hayatou said the sponsorship backing of telecommunication giant, Globacom Limited has transformed the profile of African football in the last six years.

Former WBC Heavyweight champion Samuel Peter would like to restore his lost credibility and value at the expense of Tomasz Adamek. Peter’s representative Ivaylo Gotzev told Polish scribe Przemek Garzarczyk that Peter is available and eager to fill the currently open slot as Adamek’s next opponent for a fight which is slated for mid-April of 2011 in Katowice, Poland.

Fifa president Sepp Blatter has implied that unsuccessful World Cup bidders have been viewed as bad losers.
The world football governing body caused a few surprises when recently deciding to give the 2018 World Cup to Russia and the 2022 tournament to Qatar in an anonymous vote.

A dissatisfied member of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Mr. Cyriacus Njoku, yesterday, asked an Abuja High court sitting in Maitama to go ahead and sack members of the National Executive Committee, NWC, of the party.

FORMER Vice President Atiku Abubakar said yesterday that he was never sacked from the Customs Service as it is being insinuated from some quarters, just as he stressed that he resigned voluntarily April 28, 1989.

FOLLOWING the exit of three Ministers so far from the Federal Executive Counci, FEC, in the last one week, President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday approved the redeployment of two Ministers.

The re-run election ordered by the Court of Appeal Benin for Delta State has been fixed for the 6th of January, 2011, the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, announced yesterday in Abuja.

The furore generated by the decision of the Lagos State Government to concession the Lekki-Epe Express Way to a private firm to build and maintain the road has refused to die down.
Once again, residents of the area threatened to stop the State Government from collection of tolls along the express way. The state government, through LCC had recently announced its plans to commence collection of tolls on the newly constructed road from motorists beginning from January 3rd, 2011.

Lagos State Government, through the state’s Waste Management Authorities, LAWMA, yesterday, finally launched its new waste recycling management initiative when it unveiled two communal wastes recycling banks as part of measures to efficiently deal with the issue of over 9,000 tonnes of waste generated daily across the metropolis.