IMMEDIATE past representative of labour on the board of the National Pension Commission, PenCom, Comrade Ivor Takor, has said the recommendations of the Presidential Committee and Restructuring of Federal Government Parastatals, Commissions and Agencies, will have serious implications on Pension Reform and the Contributory Pension Scheme, CPS.

ABUJA – Federal Ministry of Agriculture has been queried by the Auditor-General of the Federation over an alleged N1.9 billion scam bordering on diversion of funds for the purchase of fertilizers.

The Federal Government has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Japan International Cooperation Agency, JICA, to promote and strengthen mathematics and science subjects in the country.

In a bid to demobilise automotive sub-sector as exclusive right of illiterates in the country, the Federal Government has begun moves to entrench Automotive Engineering degree curriculum in Nigerian universities.

The Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, Dufil Prima Foods Plc, Mr Deepak Singhal has announced his readiness to splash the sum of two million, two hundred and fifty thousand naira (N2.250m) worth of education scholarship for three heroic children that are expected to emerge at 2012 Indomie Independence Day Award for Heroes of Nigeria.

The five foreign based players named by Super Eagles Head Coach, Stephen Keshi, will not train with the team in Abuja, the Federal Capital, but will link up with the squad directly in Lima, the Peruvian capital.

Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, has petitioned the Chief Justice of Nigeria over alleged frustration by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to inspect electoral documents in the governorship election petition tribunal in Adamawa State.

Nigerian lawmakers have begun to worry over the continued delay in the presentation of the Petroleum Industry Bill, PIB, by the executive, which is believed to have created a huge vacuum and stunted growth in the country’s oil and gas industry.

Against the backdrop of the ongoing Senate probe on the old pensions scheme known as Deferred Pensions scheme, which has unearthed massive fraud in the scheme, the Managing Director of Penman Pensions Limited, Mr. Wilson Ideva has assured contributors to the new Contributory Pensions Scheme, CPS, that their money is safe.

A member of the National Youth Service Corps, Oluwaseyi Oluwalade, serving in Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba-Akoko, Ondo State, has donated 2,000 copies of customized Big Exercise books to 10 public primary schools in Akoko South/West Local Government Area of the state.

Barely two weeks after the death of an Italian soccer player, Mr. Piermario Morosini on the pitch, scientists have found that Left – Ventruclar Hyper-trabeculation, LVHT, a certain cardiomyopathies, (Chronic Disease of the heart muscle) to be more common in black, male athletes.

Former Minister of State for Petroluem, Mr. Odien Ajumogobia, SAN, yesterday, said it was imperative for stakeholders in the oil and gas industry to iron out their differences, so that the Petroleum Industry Bill, PIB, would be passed into law.

Thirty seconds – that’s how long it took for Steve to find himself in the land of Oni, where he moved from being mistaken as a spy to becoming the hero of the land. It was in that time that he was transformed from an arrogant, selfish drunk to someone who accepted the love of the saviour.

Human costs of terrorist attacks against Nigerians and the Nigerian State, are unquantifiable, hence constitute the fulcrum of legitimate concerns for citizens who respect the dignity of the human person and sacredness of life as safeguarded in sections 33 and 34 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999, as amended, these being curiously desacrilized.

IT is a common phenomenon that when an administration becomes bereft of ideas, it begins to dabble into everything. The loss of one genuine purpose would lead to the pursuit of a dozen pseudo purposes.