UAC Property Development Company (UPDC) Plc has announced the commencement of a series of programmes aimed at ensuring a seamless transition to the adoption of the International Financial Reporting Standard (IFRS) in the preparation of its accounts and financial statements.

With over 300,000 children dying from malaria annually in Nigeria, the Malaria Society of Nigeria (MSN) has called for the establishment of Malaria Clubs in primary and secondary schools with a view to expand the awareness on the disease.

This piece is our well-considered response to a publication in the Vanguard newspaper of Wednesday, May 18, 2011, which was credited to one Elder Sunny Uyigue, who was also described as a factional Edo PDP Chairman, wherein he tried in vain to derogate, through some laughable pigeonholing, elder statesman, Chief Tony Anenih, as a community leader.

First, congratulations to President Jonathan on assumption of office in realisation of a common aspiration to elect a President from the region where our nation’s golden geese inhabit.

No fewer than 36 people mainly women and children have died while many others are hospitalised following the outbreak of diarrhea in some communities in Mubi South and Maiha local government areas of Adamawa State.

Professor Michael Filani and the Dean of School of Transportation, Lagos State University, Dr. Tajudeen Bawa-Allah has advocated for a single transport ministry responsible for all transport functions in the country.

What is a machine? A machine is an instrument designed for the performance of a special task so as to achieve a particular goal.

Things may have started looking up for Oceanic Bank International Plc as it recorded a Profit Before Tax (PBT) of N28.863 billion for the first quarter financial year ended March 31, 2011, showing a massive recovery from a loss of N117.865 billion recorded in the corresponding period of 2010.

At a close glance, it would appear that the last set of our lawmakers surreptitiously smuggled in the section in order to deal a fatal blow on the Supreme Court’s decision in Ameachi vs INEC? For starters

The declining trend on the Nigerian Stock Exchange NSE continued Tuesday, as equities value represented by the market capitalisation depreciated by N28.32 billion.

Comptroller-General of Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) Alhaji Dikko Abdullahi, says the service will streamline the number of its units conducting cargo examination at seaports.

The recent increase in terminal handling charges approved by the Minister of Transport Alhaji Suleiman Yusuf is currently raising dust in the maritime industry as the executive secretary of the Nigerian Shippers’ Council (NSC) Captain Adamu Biu has denied ever being part of the increment

The Nigerian Navy on Tuesday signed a partnership agreement with a European firm, TP Marine Global services ltd., to establish a ship building facility in Lagos.

Shoched by June 1, 2011 ruling of a Federal High Court Kaduna presided by Justice M.L. Shuaibu on the case instituted by the union against the management of Finetex and Nortex Limited

FORTY is a unique number. The letters of the word are in alphabetical order. This is the only number that has this linguistic property in English. The wife of the Governor of Akwa Ibom State, Mrs. Ekaete Unoma Godswill Akpabio has clocked the unique age of forty today, with all the uniqueness associated with the propriety of forty.