Team Gravity from Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife in the category of software design who designed a healthcare solution called SwiftER , an application aimed at improving the response of Medical, Security and other services to emergency situations will fly Nigerian flag in Sydney, Austrailia in July 2012 for this year’s Microsoft software competition.

LAGOS—Further hearing in the alleged charge of stealing against former Chief Accountant of Vanguard Media Ltd, Mr. Bhadmus Yisa, by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, yesterday, suffered a setback, as his co-defendant in the case, James Unoka, was said to have taken ill.

WITH a population of well over 140 million people, less than 30 percent of Nigerians have access to potable water. While it falls under the purview of governments at all levels to provide this essential of life, through the Ministry of Water resources, the reverse is the case, as citizens have over the years resorted to providing for their domestic use through the construction of boreholes. But this alternative source of water for domestic, agricultural and industrial purposes, appears to constitute a looming danger for Nigerians. CHARLES KUMOLU writes

Union Bank of Nigeria Plc has dragged aggrieved former staff who retired from the bank between 2006 and 2008 before a National Industrial Court in Lagos, seeking an interim injunction to stop them from carrying out any activity capable of paralyzing its banking activities.

The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN) has reaffirmed its commitment to the war against corruption in the country by certifying 125 chartered accountants as forensic accountants.

BENIN – EDO State chapter of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has supported Governor Adams Oshiomhole’s request for a speedy, high-powered and thorough probe into the accident that claimed the lives of three journalists and the assassination of Mr. Olaitan Oyerinde and to make the findings public.

The House of Representatives has queried the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE), over the nomination of four of its members to its council by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The House of Representatives Ad hoc Committee on Capital Market made this known in Abuja on Monday.

FOR long, one of the problems that managers of the national economy, at whatever level have had to grapple with is the availability of reliable data for planning and other purposes. The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), whose affairs are managed by a 15-member board, with a statistician-general as the chief executive officer is charged by government to fulfil this need.

ENUGU—THE Governing Council of the Federal University of Technology, Owerri, FUTO, has condemned in strong terms the trespass and encroachment on the university’s landed property by some natives of the host communities.

The Chartered Insurance Institute of Nigeria has said that State governments should key into the Contributory Pension Scheme being regulated by the National Pension Commission to avail its workers of a better life after retirement.