In the run-up to the High level United Nation Summit on Non- Communicable Diseases (NCD) scheduled to take place in New York, September 16- 19, 2011, The Federal Government recently inaugurated a Technical Working Group to articulate the country’s position.

The Federal Government of Nigeria has revealed that it is holding talks with its United Kingdom counterpart on the need for firms in the UK to set up crude oil refineries and cocoa processing plants in Nigeria.

In the views of a professional Dentists from the Nigerian Dental Association (NDA), Dr. Olufemi Orebanjo, during an Oral Care Social Mission cum Brush Twice Daily Programme organised by Unilever Nigeria Plc in collaboration with NDA at the Ajeromi /Ifelodun Local Government Area of Lagos State last week, regretted that despite the fact that studies have shown that brushing twice a day could prevent against such life threatening diseases many Nigerians seem not to be embracing twice daily brushing.

The Bankers Committee has identified six areas to improve the agricultural sector through the Nigeria Incentive-Based Risk Sharing System for Agricultural Lending (NIRSAL).

One Day I Will Write About This Place, a debut memoir by award-winning Kenyan writer Binyavanga Wainaina, has been selected by the O, The Oprah Magazine for its 2011 summer reading list.

1.0 INTRODUCTION1.01 At the 5th Emergency Meeting of the National Judicial Council held on 9th March, 2011, a Five-Man Fact Finding Panel was set up to look into the petitions against the Hon. Chief Justice of Nigeria, and Chairman, National Judicial Council, Hon. Justice Aloysius Katsina-Alu, GCON, the Hon. President of the Court of Appeal, Hon. Justice I. A. Salami, OFR and some Justices of the Court of Appeal in respect of the Sokoto, Ekiti and Osun States Governorship Appeals, respectively.

In the run-up to the High level United Nation Summit on Non- Communicable Diseases (NCD) scheduled to take place in New York, September 16- 19, 2011, The Federal Government recently inaugurated a Technical Working Group to articulate the country’s position.

Mr Ousmane Dore, Resident Representative of Africa Development Bank (AfDB), has said that the bank has mortgaged N25 billion (155 million dollars) into the energy sector to develop Nigeria’s economy.

President, National Industrial Court of Nigeria(NICN), Justice Babatunde Adejumo OFR is expected to be chairman of the 5th Lawyers In The Media (LIM) Forum during this year’s Annual General Conference(AGC) of the Nigerian Bar Association(NBA) on Wednesday, August, 24.

Legally, is there any possibility of criminal and civil cases to be dispensed within a time line?

Randi Zuckerberg, the sister of Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg and the director of marketing for the social network, is leaving to start her own company, Facebook said Wednesday.

The Police have impounded a container load of expired Soy milk worth over N20 million and arrested two persons in the process. The expiry date on the product was reportedly at the verge of being tampered with for onward sale in the market when the bubble burst.

Former Vice Chairman of the Nigeria Football Association, Nwbufo Obienu, has been wondering why the sports minister Yusuf Suleiman would accord recognition to those who tried to form a parallel football body on the grounds that the authentic body changed their name from Nigeria Football Association, NFA to Nigeria Football Federation, NFF.

he naira, Wednesday, depreciated again by 15 kobo at the official foreign exchange market as the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, cuts foreign exchange supply by 38 per cent even as Nigeria’s foreign exchange reserves dropped to $32.55 billion by August 1 from $33.54 billion on July 22.

THE family of the founding father of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, RCCG,has dissociated itself from the report accusing the current leadership of the church, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, of changing church principles and marginalisation.