THE Olu of Warri, HRM Ogiame Atuwatse II, has imposed a fine of N50,000.00 on Ugbege community in Warri North Local Government Area of Delta State for allegedly tagging some other neighbouring Itsekiri communities in the area as slaves.

Reprieve may soon come the way of over 860 security guards who were earlier relieved of their duties by ExxonMobil, as the Supreme Court yesterday ordered the company to settle them before January 17.

Governor Baba-tunde Fashola of Lagos State, yesterday, presented the 2011 budget proposal of N445.180 billion to Lagos State House of Assembly for approval.

Barely one week after a 31-year-old man, Mr. Oluwafemi Best Olayiwola, was killed by a Divisional Police Officer, DPO, Mohammed Babamala, in front of Onipanu Police Station, Lagos, an unidentified policeman, last Monday, shot and killed a 21-year-old man, Ismaila Sanni and left three others, including a 10-year-old-boy with bullet wounds.

Nigeria international striker Michael Eneramo has revealed that he hopes to cash in on his goals for Tunisian champions Esperance by moving to Europe in the January transfer window.

Former Nigerian international Nicholas Ukadike has described Super Eagles coach Samson Siasia’s intended tour of selected European countries to see some Nigerian players in those lands as timely, bold and step in the right direction.

Ocean Boys defender Okey Akabogu is in police custody over charges of manslaughter following the horrendous car crash which claimed the lives of two pedestrians in Yenagoa in the early hours of Monday.
Akabogu was driving his Mercedes vee-boot car along the streets of Yenagoa around 1am on Monday when the unfortunate incident occurred.

It was mixed fortunes for Alaba International market last weekend when the market was recognized with the prestigious The Eko Awards in the commerce and industry category.

APC by Schneider Electric, a global player in integrated critical power and cooling services, has announced a new version of InfraStruxure management software, a core feature of APC’s InfraStruxure architecture, which provides an open, vendor neutral management platform for data centre physical infrastructure.

The Institute of Software Practitioners of Nigeria (ISPON) has been inaugurated as a member of the National Software Policy Committee among other members, with Prof. C.O. Akinyokun as the Chairman

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Chief Marketing Officer of Cyberspace Network Limited, Mr Anant Sabat has added his voice to the calls by the Information Technology, IT stakeholders, on the government of Nigeria to make IT market attractive through provision of incentives.

Governor Peter Obi has flagged off the training of the two hundred ICT teachers recently recruited by the state government. The three week programme which is taking place at the Nnamdi Azikiwe University Library, Awka is in collaboration with Microsoft and New Horizon Computer Learning Centre.

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has licensed Paga to launch its unique mobile money service in Nigeria.
Having received the go ahead from the apex bank, Paga is set to launch in early 2011 with four products directly targeted at resolving pain points that Nigerians have to contend with today when it comes to cash: money transfer, bill payments, mobile phone airtime top-up, and merchant payments.

A Portharcourt based Journalist, Mr Celestine Ogolo, an Umuahia based business man, Chief Godwin Adiele, and four others, Malam Y. A. Rufai from Katsina state, Daniel Olawunmi, from Kano, Kola Lesaodo from Jos and Yaya Musibau; a hotelier from Ikare, Ondo State, moved up the ladder and became millionaires last week as Second National Operator, Globacom presented first cheques to first batch of winners in the season 2 of its Text4millions promotion.