The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, is set to approve the guidelines for aspirants seeking political offices on its ticket on Wednesday.

Lagos State Government, last Friday, lived up to its promise as it approved the payment of over N360 million to offset the salaries of medical doctors in Lagos public hospitals across the state who recently called off their 14 weeks old strike over agitation for better welfare packages among others.

The Nigeria Union of Local Government Employees, NULGE, Anambra State chapter, weekend defied the state government’s plea to reverse the suspension order placed on some of its executive members.

President Goodluck Jonathan, weekend, said the development of tourism and culture in the country was imperative to enhance the economic potential of Nigeria.

The Sokoto State government will soon commence the building of 1,000 housing units to ameliorate the plight of victims of flooding which ravaged some local government areas of the state.

These obviously are not the best of times for Aerocontractors which, by all intent and purposes, had been the flagship of the nation’s commercial flight operations.

Standard Organization of Nigeria (SON) has, in collaboration with Ashaka Cement Plc, organised a workshop to sensitize block builders on producing quality sandcrete blocks that will prevent building collapse.

Investors on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) last week lost a reasonable value of their investment on stocks, as equities value represented by the market capitalisation depreciated by N111.25 billion.

Hi Readers! Plans about Robert and Heather’s wedding has been put on the back burner for a couple of weeks because Belinda’s son, Simon, is going to wed the mother of his child.

Oceanic Bank International Plc has dedicated the Award it won in India to shareholders and customers who had contributed immensely to the turnaround effort of the Bank.

Inmobi, a mobile network research company, said the new survey it conducted recently showed that 69 per cent of African consumers are comfortable with mobile ads, which proves to be the highest in the world.

Suleiman Abbas Ahmed,is the new Comptroller of Immigration in -charge of Nigeria Immigration Service, Lagos State Command. A very experienced and articulate officer, Ahmed is generally regarded in Immigration circle as a thorough-bred and well exposed officer who will turn things around now that he is in Lagos office of the service. He spoke with Crime Alert on the challenges ahead and other matters arising.

Cost managers in Nigeria, under the aegis of the Certified Institute of Cost Management of Nigerian (CICMN), last week, charged people in government, particularly those who are seeking electoral offices in the incoming 2011 elections, on the need to utilize the Nigerian resources efficiently, saying that leadership is not the birthright of a group of people, region or faith.

MISTER Abiola Popola, FCIM, is the President/Chairman of Council, Chartered Institute of Personnel Management of Nigeria, CIPM. In this interview with Vanguard’s Correspondent, Victor Ahiuma-Young, he spoke about the re-branding of the nation’s foremost HR Management Institute, the challenge posed by quacks to the profession, delay by government in accrediting the institute among others.
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CENTRAL Bank Governor, Sanusi Lamido, weekend, raised alarm over the high cost of maintaining the National Assembly which he put at 25 per cent of the nation’s expenditure, saying if the trend was not checked, it would continue to stall the growth and development of the nation’s economy.