ONCE again, our dear nation is on the threshold of a momentous event, this year’s general elections. Preceding that election is the all-important issue of compiling a voters’ register, an activity that has always been crucial to whether or not we get a credible election

Banks are increasingly adopting cash deposit Automatic Teller Machines (ATMs) to improve service delivery and enhance convenience for customers. And to reinforce its unwillingness to relinquish its leading position in this regard, First Bank recently unveiled the services of this unique electronic banking innovations in three strategic locations in Lagos State namely Lagos Island, Ikeja and Yaba.

TODAY in Nigeria everybody is aware of the hydra-headed monster called corruption, which is poised to swallow everything that is inherently good in us. We are also cognizant of the congenital link between corruption and the materialistic culture which pervades our current society. Right from the new born baby to the gray-haired granny, we are faced with a generation that places more value on the money in your pocket more than the wisdom in your eyes; a phenomenon which has the definite power to make us self-destruct.

FACED with the prospect of a summary dismissal, Dr. Okwesileze Nwodo, yesterday, resigned his appointment as National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.

Despite the devastating nature of infertility, it has remained one problem anyone would want to bury. Why? It is perceived as a taboo.
Today, statistics available show that one in six couples seek treatment for infertility. But, despite the breakthroughs in reproductive medicine, one in 20 couples still do not succeed. Experts say breaking the silence by accepting the available technological innovations would eliminate the stigma and challenges associated with the condition.

Until industry stakeholders pull resources together late last year, to hit at counterfeit phones, the Nigerian mobile phone market was awash with sub standard phones allegedly imported illegally from Asian countries.

FEDERAL Capital Territory Minister, Sen. Bala Mohammed, has commended leaders of four political parties, which held their national conventions and presidential primaries in Abuja and the security agencies for organising peaceful exercises.

NIGERIANS in Diaspora, yesterday, came down hard on the former Petroleum Minister, Prof Tam David West, for allegedly inciting the former Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar to take President Goodluck Jonathan to court over the conduct of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP’s presidential primaries, won by the latter.

Less than eight hours after residents of Amarata and men of the Bayelsa State Fire Service prevented one of the biggest interior décor plazas in Yenagoa from going up in flames, no fewer than 15 shops and other makeshift structures, including a section of a filling station were Monday night razed down at the Shell ramp in the heart of the state capital.

THE ongoing registration of voters which started with initial hiccups is gradually progressing in Asaba and environs as individuals and communities are providing more generating sets for easy charging of the Direct Data Capture, DDC, machines.
Many of the centres visited, yesterday, showed that more individuals have been registered as compared to the negligible few that were registered when the exercise took off on Saturday.

THE Deputy Governor of Edo State, Dr Pius Odubu has described as baseless and untrue, the allegation that he denied aspirants who refused to be initiated into a particular cult in Orhiomnwon Local Government Area of the state, tickets for the general elections.

Bayelsa State Government has lauded the National Directorate of Employment, NDE, over its skills acquisitions training for the unemployed youths in the state, saying it had helped reduce crime rate in the state.

OSUN State Governor, Rauf Aregbesola, has blamed the absence of meaningful development by successors of the late sage, Chief Obafemi Awolowo, for the difficulties and challenges confronting people of the South West zone.

The Osun State Resident Electoral Commissioner, Amb Oloruntoyin Akeju has attributed the malfunctioning of some of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Direct Data Capturing DDC Machines to variation in the weather condition betwen the country where they are manufactured and Nigeria.

There was a mild drama at the Federal High Court in Abuja, yesterday, when Charles Okah, who was alleged to have masterminded several acts of terrorist activities across the nation, slumped in the middle of court proceedings and feigned death.