THE newly elected executive committee of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Enugu State declared Monday that the fresh congresses of the party held at ward, local government and state levels last week were in compliance with the directive of the party’s National Working Committee, NWC.

PRIMATE of the King Sabbath Mission Worldwide, Rev. Patrick Nebo, said Monday that the recent bomb blasts in Abuja were just the beginning of disasters that will befall the country ahead of this year’s general election unless urgent and positive steps were taken to nip them in the bud.

Sequel to the commencement of the Peoples Democratic Party’s primaries in Ebonyi State on Monday, a prominent politician and PDP member in the state, Dr. Mike Okoro, has been reported kidnapped by unknown gunmen.

General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, RCCG, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, at the weekend led other men of God at the 2011 annual thanksgiving service organized by the Lagos State Government to pray for a continued peaceful co-existence of Nigeria and the peaceful conduct of the forthcoming April general elections in Nigeria.

IF the confession of Macaulay Oguke, a drug suspect arrested recently at the departure hall of the Murtala Mohammed international Ikeja, Lagos is anything to go by, then there is definitely a new introduction into the illicit drug deals in the country.

Friday September 26, 2010 made it exactly 18 years after the death of military officers in the C-130 plane crash on September 26, 1992. That air crash at Ejigbo, Lagos shook Nigeria to its foundation as all the passengers died, with 173 bodies found later and 27 missing.

The cause of ensuring a bright future for abandoned children is one that requires the attention of all Nigerians, the management of Oceanic Bank International Plc has said.

Union Assurance Company Limited, a subsidiary of Union Bank Plc has recorded a gross premium of N2.39 billion for the financial year ended December 30, 2010.This represents a decrease of 12 per cent from N2.72 billion in recorded in 2008 to N2.39 billion in 2009.

The fluctuating trend on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) continued Thursday, as the market indicators for measuring the performance indices, the market capitalisation and the All share index appreciated by 0.05 per cent.

Dangote Cement Plc has emerged as African’s best cement manufacturer company with the presence of its plants in 14 different African countries.

A primary mortgage operator, Mr Wale Osisanya says the mortgage business in Nigeria is still at its lowest ebb. Mr Osisanya who is the managing director of Jubilee Life Savings & Loans Limited rated the industry a paltry 20 per cent.

In order to implement the five-year sustainable sewage and sanitation infrastructure strategy and facilitation of public private partnership in wastewater management, Lagos State Government last week commissioned Wastewater Management Office’s administrative headquarters located along Obasa Street, Off Oba Akra Avenue, Ikeja.

THE Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) National Assembly Appeal Screening Committee has cleared former Speaker of the Ogun State House of Assembly; Mrs. Titi Oseni and two others who were earlier disqualified ending speculations that Speaker of the House of Representatives Mr. Dimeji Bankole would get the party ticket without any opposition.

Bishop of the Anglican Diocese of Egbu, Professor Emmanuel U. Iheagwam, has warned that “the recent introduction of bombing as a means of settling religious and/or political misunderstandings is now assuming alarming proportions and must be checked”.

President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday fingered greed and the desire to accumulate monies that were not needful, rather than of lack of professionals in key positions, as the problem militating against Nigeria’s development.