Never before has a small car impressed me like the new Chevrolet Spark which was introduced into the Nigerian market recently by NMI Motors, a member of the CFAO Automobile Group. Though I had sighted the new Chevrolet Spark at various times at the NMI showroom on Oshodi-Apapa expressway Lagos but never picked much interest on the muscular looking small hatchback.

WARRI- THERE was excitement in Koko, headquarters of Warri North Local Government Area of Delta State, popularly remembered for the toxic waste saga, following the arrival, Monday, of foreign investors from Saudi Arabia and India to inspect the sites for the construction of $16 billion petrochemical and fertilizer plants in the community.

Over 60 concerned Civil Society Organisations (CSO) under the auspices of CSO Health Watch have raised alarm over the possibility of Nigeria losing future aid grants from the Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GFTAM)

IN the bid to encourage Nigerians to desist from seeking specialist medical treatment abroad, the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH) is set now more than ever before to offer prompt intellectual medical services to respond to needs of patients.

Yenagoa – Bayelsa State government and the Yenagoa Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture (YECCIMA) have reached an accord to work together to harness and promote the abundant agricultural potentials in the state.

A THIRTY eight-year-old woman is recipeint of the first successful kidney transplantation surgery at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital.

Her initial appointment as Petroleum Minister was greeted with loud objections and skepticism both in the industry and the larger Nigerian society. It was not only about her academic qualifications and work experience, which industry watchers believed were simply inadequate to supervise Nigeria’s most important industry.

Customs Area Controller, Murtala Muhammed International Airport Command of Nigeria Custom Service (MMAC), Mr. Michael Adedeji Adewole, has disclosed that the custom service generated about N16billion in the first six months of the year into the federation account stressing that its target is to make about N42billion by the end of 2011.

Twelve months to the completion of the Tin-can Island road project which was awarded to Borini Prono, the construction company has said meeting the completion target depends solely on the availability of funds from the federal government.

Paramount ruler of Calabar South Local Government Area of Cross River State, Muri Munene Effiong Mbukpa, has promised to mobilise the people of Calabar South to plant trees to check the menace of flood, which had rendered many people homeless in Calabar metropolis.