The Accident Investigation Bureau, AIB, of the Aviation Ministry has blamed delayed release of accident reports in the country inadequate technical workforce and absence of a flight data decoding laboratory.

Following recent internal intrigues and squabble which may lead it to abysmal performance in the forthcoming general elections in 2011, the National Chairman of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Dr Okwesileze Nwodo, pleaded with the Nigerian media to help shape the ruling party to enable it get it right.

The Minister of Information and Communication, Prof Dora Akunyili has said that made in Nigeria computers are superior to imported computers.

The Borno State police command said yesterday that it had arrested 13 suspects in connection to last week’s killings in Maiduguri.

No fewer than six students of the newly established University of Science and Technology, USTI, Ifaki Ekiti, are on their way out of the institution for deliberately breaking the rules and regulations guiding the administration of the university.

MINISTER of Defence, Prince Adetokunbo Kayode, SAN, weekend, described the President Goodluck Jonathan/Sambo agenda as one that would positively transform the lives of the rural populace of Nigeria which constitute the heart and soul of the nation.

FORMER Head of State, General Yakubu Gowon was, weekend, conferred with an honorary doctoral degree in Management by the Federal University of Technology Akure, FUTA, just as he berated the rush by former senior public officers in establishing private schools in the country. According to him, the development could destroy the nation’s public education system.

Bettymovil Nigeria Limited, trading as Rapido, an SMS predict and win game organisers, said by December 2010, a new game will be introduced into the market, as first millionaire in Rapido Million Promo gets rewarded.

The Advertising Practitioners council of Nigeria (APCON) 16th annual advertising lecture for 2010 has pointed the way forward to re- brand the Nigerian politician.

The management of Shoprite supermarket in Nigeria has recently named Mr. Godfrey Andrew Odamah as the branch manager of the retail chain’s outlet in The Palms Shopping Centre, Lekki Lagos. The elevation which takes immediate effect is part of the groups’ ongoing business restructuring and branch expansion.

Globally, various companies who slimmed their advertising budget are yet to reverse them, even as recession begins to ease in certain economies. According to analysts, this is not helping marketing of goods which results in inventory pile up.

On October, 2010, residents of Abaranje area of Ikotun in Lagos State, were thrown into mourning following the shocking discovery of the dead body of a middle-aged woman lying in a pool of her blood inside an hotel room. The victim’s neck was completely slashed and her left and right wrists chopped-off inside room 205 of the hotel.

By Les Leba “Advocacy for increased wages will perhaps remain eternal in the struggle of organised labour. Thus, expectedly the speeches made by Labour leaders all over the country last Friday, May 1st 2009 touched on the demand for a reasonable minimum wage that would give some measure of dignity to their rank and file. […]

The steady rise in kidney diseases and acute renal failure in Nigeria has been credited to several factors. There are few well equipped kidney centres where people can get proper diagnosis and dialysis.

DEMOCRATIC People’s Party, DPP, gubernatorial candidate in Delta State, Chief Great Ovedje Ogboru has held a top secret meeting with President Goodluck Jonathan in Aso Villa, Abuja, apparently in connection with the forthcoming re-run election in the state, in which he and former governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, are the major contenders.