Intellectuals from the Niger Delta, including those in the diaspora, met weekend, in Lagos to review Federal Government’s implementation of its post-amnesty programme so far, and concluded that the training of former militants should go beyond activities in oil and gas sector of the economy.

THE Vice Chairman of Arewa Consultative Forum, ACF, Sen Joseph Waku, has raised an alarm over a smear campaign plot being sponsored by some politicians against the Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Justice Aloysius Katsina-Alu

A non-governmental or-ganisation, Conscience Nigeria, CN, has challenged the President of the Court of Appeal, Justice Ayo Salami, on why he did not reveal the alleged attempt to compromise him until now.

The United States Consul-General, Mr. Joseph Stafford, has disclosed the reasons his country is deepening its relationship with Nigeria in the ongoing fight against narcotic drugs, money laundering and organised crimes.

Reprieve has come the way of disengaged staff of the Nigeria Telecommunications Limited, NITEL, as a Federal High Court in Abuja, on Friday, okayed lifetime pension for them.

Home away from home,that is what Sierra-Leoneans feel anytime they visit Nigeria and former Abia state governor Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu says fans should learn more about the Eagles instead of spending quality time on the English Premiership.

Prospective investors in Nigeria’s power distribution sub‑sector, would be made to produce a loss reduction programme as part of their eligibility to bid for any if the 11 distribution companies unbundled from the Power Holding Company of Nigeria, PHCN.

WORRIED by the drop in the study of geo‑sciences in Nigeria=s institutions of higher learning, the Nigerian Association of Petroleum Explorationists, NAPE, is providing a platform for assessing ways to not only to arrest the decline, but also enhance graduate performance in the field.

The Minister of Mines and Steel Development, Mr. Musa Mohammed Sada, has reassured genuine investors that the Federal Government would give them all the necessary assistance to conduct their businesses without hindrance.

Cleanliness they say, is next to Godliness as it has been reported that hand hygiene practice reduces acquired infection by 90 per cent. However, a research result recently indicted health workers for not washing their hands after attending to patients. The report also indicated that cleaning one’s hands after contact with pathogens is very important as pathogens are mostly transmitted from patient to patient from the hands of health workers.

Chief Nimisoere Bob-Manuel is the Managing Director of Hi-Tech Electronic Engineering Limited based in Port Harcourt, Rivers State. He worked as an Instrument engineer and later as a Health, Safety and Environment (HSE) practitioner at Elf Petroleum Nigeria Limited now Total E&P Nigeria Limited (TEPNG).

THE Esama of Benin Kingdom, Gabriel Osawaru Igbinedion has been dragged before a Benin High Court by his son in-law, Prince Avan Akenzua 11 over an alleged illegal breaking and entry into his house and removed property worth millions of Naira.

The Association of Senior Civil Servants of Nigeria (ASCSN) has described the National Housing Fund (NHF) scheme as a fraudulent scheme, in which the greatest beneficiaries are those not contributing to it.

A university lecturer, Prof. Tunde Agboola, of the Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Faculty of the Social Sciences, University of Ibadan, has decried the predatory tendencies of private housing developers which has led to distortions in availability of houses in high and low-ends of property market.

Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has reaffirmed plans to preclude primary mortgage institutions (PMIs) from engaging in property development as part of the forthcoming reform of the mortgage sub-sector.