ABEOKUTA- FORMER Governor of Ogun State, Otunba Gbenga Daniel, being prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC over alleged corruption while in office, has accused unnamed individuals and groups of deliberately planting stories and peddling inaccurate reports meant to paint him in bad light and give the impression of guilt even before the conclusion of his trial at an Abeokuta High Court.

At the start of the Nigerian Air Force “NAF EXPO 2010” which held at the Air Force Base, Kaduna while Air Marshal Mohammed Dikko Umar was the Air Officer Commanding, Training Command, the expectation of the leadership of the Air Force for the expo was that it should evolve into an international air show in the mould of the Paris and Farnborough air shows in France and the UK.

The wife of Lagos State Governor, Mrs. Abimbola Fashola, has called on stakeholders in the agricultural sector in the country to design a proactive measure that will assist the state in the preservation of perishable farm produce.

The President & Chairman of Governing Council of the National Institute of Marketing of Nigeria, Chief Lugard Aimiuwu, has said that a Nigeria that meets the dreams of all her citizens could still be built if all Nigerians did the right thing in their private and public lives.

Bauchi-The National Union of Road Transport Workers, NURTW, Bauchi State chapter has urged President Goodluck Jonathan to pay more attention to the current security challenges facing the country instead of initiating policies that would generate more problems for the electorate.

Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Minister, Senator Bala Mohammed, has restated the determination of the FCT Administration, through its mass housing programme, to partner with governments, organisations, institutions and companies towards providing affordable housing for the teeming residents of the territory.

The Agriculture Transformation Action Plan for Nigeria (ATAP) presented by the Minister of Agriculture, Dr. Akinwumi Adesina to the President and the Economic Management Team recently has been described as a good policy paper that will turn around the sector.

Determined to avert any fire outbreak in Abuja metropolis arising from the use of sub-standard building materials, the Consumer Protection Council (CPC) has raided Maraba building material market, Abuja confiscating rolls of substandard electrical wires running into millions of naira.

Abuja-The Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation, NDIC, has made a debt recovery of N22.79 billion in 2010, as against the N20.77 billion it recovered in 2009, Alhaji Umaru Ibrahim, its Managing Director, has said.

ADO-EKITI-Media aide to Chief Segun Oni, former governor of Ekiti State, Mr. Lere Olayinka has described as “total falsehood” claim by the State government that it has completed five roads projects within its first year.

Boeing and Nigeria’s Arik Air weekend announced a deal for two 747-8 Intercontinental airplanes. The order is valued at $635 million at list prices and was previously attributed to an unidentified customer on Boeing’s website.

Akure-OVER N151.4 million has been disbursed to at least 31 FADAMA Community Associations in Ondo State under the FADAMA III Project in the last two years.

In the most basic term, a manager is a person who gets things done through others. He is a person who can manage himself and the resources at his/her disposal such as human, material, capital, and at times information available to achieve the organization’s goals and objectives.

I FORGOT completely that the returning and repulsive month called November, is around the corner again. The agony of a nation descending into a deeper crisis, and the death of Kingsley Baridilo Kpea, the Ogoni-born petroleum engineer and Comrade who died recently in an Indian hospital, are troubling me, to forget the nauseating month November.

Former Marketing Manager of the liquidated Nigeria Airways Limited (NAL), Mr. Akinnola Ojo has said the Federal Government should have privatised the national carrier in partnership with foreign airlines instead of outright liquidation.