Ernst & Young in partnership with Performance Frontiers, an international business execution software and IT solutions provider, have announced the launch of information security services in the Nigerian market.

It’s all ending not with the promised bang but a whimper. After 42 years of what started as a patriotic attempt to return power to the people of Libya from the ruling monarchy of King Mohammed Idris, Muhammar Gaddafi, the one who bore the rank of a colonel but exercised powers beyond those of a Field Marshall was chased away with a $1.4 million price placed on his head- dead or alive. For Gaddafi, it was a case of pride before a fall.

Proshare Nigeria is set to launch a new portal in its quest to deepen the knowledge base of the Nigerian economic and financial landscape.

In continuation of the efforts of the Fashola administration to reduce poverty to the barest minimum in Lagos State, the government has inaugurated a technical committee on the accessibility of microfinance loans by tradesmen and women as well as other artisans in the State.

Technoglass Industries Limited has announced an advancement in its production technique with the launch of a new glass production unit called Insulated Glazing Unit.

Multi-Trex Integrated Foods Plc has grown its net assets by 118.31 per cent to N6.248 billion in its 2011 financial year. , up from N2.862 billion recorded in 2010.

Muammer Gaddafi’s daughter gave birth to a baby girl in Algeria Tuesday as Algiers said it decided to grant safe haven to the wife and three children of the ousted Libyan leader for “strictly humanitarian reasons.”

The launch of the final battle in Libya is imminent, the rebels’ military chief Colonel Ahmed Omar Bani told reporters on Tuesday.

“Zero hour is quickly approaching. We would like everyone to know that we are ready for a final military battle,” he told a news conference in the rebel stronghold in the east.

German international Per Mertesacker was given a day off German team training on Tuesday by coach Joachim Loew so he could travel to England and sign for Arsenal for a fee believed to be up to 11million euros.

Kano State governor, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso has ordered security agencies to release suspected members of the Yusufiyya Movement, popularly known as Boko Haram, and other members of religious groups who are currently in their custody.

THE mother of a former member of the Ondo State House of Assembly and now Chairman of the States Sports Council, Mr. Bamido Omogbehin has been kidnapped.

IT was a sad Eid-El-Fitri in Ondo State as no fewer than 34 persons died in a multiple auto crash along Akure-Owo Expressway late on Monday.

ACTIVISTS in Warri, Delta State under the auspices of the Forum for Justice and Human Rights Defence, FJHD, weekend, protested what they termed ‘compulsory retirement’ of the President of the Court of Appeal, PCA, Justice Isa Ayo Salami by the Presidency, as well as the worsening condition of security nationwide.

AS gaily dressed Muslims in Ogun State Tuesday trooped out to offer prayers to mark the end of the Ramadan fast, the Governor of the state: Senator Ibikunle Amosun urged people of the state to pray fervently for his administration, saying that his
administration could only succeed through divine blessings.

Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, yesterday, said though the Commission has a robust and vigorous healthcare programme which has seen more than one million Niger Deltans receive free medical care over the years, the recent programme that brought Indian doctors to Igbokoda, Ondo State, was a private enterprise and did not have the approval of the Board of the Commission as published in a national daily (not Vanguard).