EXECUTIVE Vice Chairman of the Nigeria Communications Commission, NCC, Dr. Eugene Juwah has announced a major staff movement in which three directors, two deputy directors, eight assistant directors and more than a dozen other managers moved to new positions.

A former secretary General of the Nigeria Football Association. Sanni Ahmed Toro has told the NFF to sack the senior national team coach Samson Siasia for what he termed as “his lack of technical depth.”

TOP mobile operator, Airtel has introduced a special package for Nigerian youths.

ONE of Nigeria’s leading indigenous motor manufacturing companies, Innoson Vehicle Manufacturing Company Limited , a subsidiary of Innoson Group, has been granted approval to build an automobile service station in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). In addition, the company has offered to further partner with the Federal Capital Territory Administration , FCTA in the area of environmental sanitation.

ABUJA-The Federal Government Tuesday expressed concern over the rise in the number of unaccredited medical schools in the country, and vowed to shut them down.

My starting point will be a number of general comments about the history, functions and responsibilities of political parties in Nigeria, as the broader context for indicating a framework for approaching the problem of inter-party dialogue in the country and posing questions about not only its desirability and framework but also the framework for pursuing and putting flesh into it.

THE Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI), last week, stated that President Goodluck Jonathan will be declaring the 2011 Lagos International Trade Fair (LITF) open.

The Senate Committee on Petroleum (Downstream) is to expedite action to ensure early passage of the Petroleum Industry Bill, PIB, the committee chairman, Senator Magnus Abe, has assured.

LAST week, Steven Paul Jobs, one of the men who helped digitalize the world, in a sense, passed on at the age of 56. He was a man, who, from nowhere and hanging on to his wits worked and clawed his way to the very top, and by the time he breathed his last, he was, according to Forbes, worth US$7 billion, making him the 42nd wealthiest American.

AWKA-OFFICIALS from the national headquarters of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, and Anambra State Government held a marathon meeting in Awka, Monday, to find ways of resolving the industrial action in the state.

ENUGU- Enugu State House of Assembly, Tuesday, condemned the forceful transfer of non-indigenes in Abia State civil service back to their home states, saying the burden of the N18,000 minimum wage, which had become a national issue, was not a justifiable reason for laying off the workers.

Stanbic IBTC Bank Plc has been named the Best Investment Bank in Nigeria for the year 2011 by EMEA Finance Magazine.

BENIN-A group in the Edo State Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Restoration Project 2012, has backed the governorship aspiration of the former Governor of Edo State, Prof. Oserheimen Osunbor, saying his achievements within the short period he spent in government will guarantee victory for PDP.

UYO- Elder Nse Ekefre, Permanent Secretary in the Akwa Ibom State Ministry of Finance, has described as mischievous and maligning, the publications in some local tabloids, on non-payment of salaries to workers in the state.

BESIDES the obvious misrepresentation of facts, the Tribune’s editorial of September 29, 2011 appears ill-motivated and therefore in bad taste. Its tone was unnecessarily harsh; the choice of words incredibly impolite and inappropriate. And it was indeed unprofessional for the editorial writers to substitute cold analysis for name-calling and cheap insults.