TEACHERS of Baptist Medical Centre, Eku in Delta State have appealed to the state government to go ahead with its decision to take over the school. It will be recalled that the state government took over the Eku Baptist Hospital in 2009. Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan, after the takeover, directed that the staff of the hospital be transferred to the state civil service.

Governorship candidate of the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, in Rivers State, Dr. Abiye Sekibo and members of his party, were, yesterday, disallowed from campaigning in Saakpenwa, headquarters of Tai Local Government Area of the state.

Nigeria’s Stephen Keshi has returned to take charge of the team for a third time, replacing Thierry Froger just as Emmanuel Adebayor has denied that he will return for Togo in Saturday’s Nations Cup qualifier in Malawi.

Mohammed Shehu Kangiwa could not hide his excitement when he was called to receive the giant trophy he won in this year’s St. Patrick’s Golf Tournament at the IBB International Golf and Country Club.

ANAMBRA State government has flagged off the reconstruction of the 12 kilometer Enugwu-Agidi-Nawgwu-Ukwulu-Achalla road, awarded for N1.2 billion.

ALL the candidates vying for legislative offices on the platform of All Prograssive Grand Alliance, APGA, in next month’s general elections in Anambra State have signed a code of conduct to avoid dumping the party after winning elections.

Analysts at Standard Bank, parent company of Stanbic IBTC Bank Plc, have called on African countries to prepare for a decline in aid and trade flows with Japan, following the crisis presently rocking the Asian country.

CONGRESS for Progressive Change, CPC, in Enugu State, yesterday, raised alarm over what it called dangerous dimension insecurity had taken in Enugu State, saying this could derail next month’s elections in the state.

The Nigerian Export Promotion Council (NEPC) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the World Bank in line with its Commercial Agriculture Development Project (CADP) for five states.

DELTA State Governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan, has promised to build a fertilizer company and a refinery, both to be sited in Ndokwa area of the state.

IN a bid to further decongest the ports in Lagos and bring shipping operations closer to people in the South Eastern part of the country, the Akwa Ibom State government, Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) and the private sector are set to construct a deep sea port at Ibang.

THE management of the Nigeria Customs Service NCS has entered into a strategic partnership with an Australian University with a view to providing continuous training for officers and men of the service.

Master Mariners Association of Nigeria has decried the dearth of Master Mariners in the country, a development it says will hamper the growth of the Nigerian Maritime industry if urgent steps are not taken to correct the anomaly.

GTBank Plc has announced a dividend of 75 kobo per share and a bonus of one ordinary share for every four ordinary shares held by its shareholders for its 2010 financial year.

The federal government is depending on the public and private sectors to fund the N32 trillion needed for the First Implementation Plan (FIB) of vision 20:2020. Prof Sylvester Monye, Secretary, National Planning Commission, said this recently in Kaduna at the Validation Workshop of the Nigerian Study on the ECOWAS Community Development Programme (CDP).