WORKERS in Ondo State, yesterday, endorsed the second term ambition ofGovernor Olusegun Mimiko, attributing this to his various worker- friendly programmes.

BY the time you read this piece, a pile of sand around the Asaba Airport which had been planned for removal at the reported cost of N7.4b to allow President Goodluck Jonathan’s presidential plane to land at Asaba may have been cleared, or may still be there.

When disease and ailment struck the body, especially internal organs such as liver, kidney, heart, lung, bones and tissues including other systems of the body, it is said to be problematic for not only the patient but also the doctor and the affected part of the body.

TO stimulate growth of Information Communication Technology ICT sector in Nigeria. the Ministry of Communication Technology has signed a memorandum of understanding with Nokia.

KADUNA – Indian Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr. Mehesh Sachdeva has said that trade between Indian and Nigeria hit $16.4 billion in 2010, making his country the biggest trading partner with Nigeria.

At the ongoing Impact 2012 , the premier conference for business and IT leadership holding in Las Vegas, United States of America, IBM unveiled its first ever Mobile Foundation, a comprehensive portfolio of software and services designed to help organizations capitalize on the proliferation of mobile environments — including laptops, smartphones and tablets.

A global conference of food has said that undervalued but nutritious food can make the difference in efforts to secure food security across continent, officials attending the 2012 World Nutrition Congress in Rio Degenrio said that “Placing renewed emphasis on sustaining the natural variety of crops and animals contributing to agriculture, including neglected yet nutritious traditional foods, can improve food security and address growing global concerns over poor nutrition and its negative health effects’.

Her elegance warmed up the cold weather. How? It was generally cold in Philadelphia last Saturday, the final day of the Penn Relays.

WHILE it is possible for me to describe Governor Aregbesola’s attitude to religion as one best summed up in the philosophy of ‘Live and let live’, for which reason he gives free expression to his religious beliefs, even in public and with the implicit understanding that other citizens could and, very often, do the same thing, one must also admit that the Governor’s attitude, for the very fact that he is governor, might lead other people to different conclusions as are now being made by opposition elements in and outside the state.

POINEER governor of Edo State, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, has said that the simultaneous attacks on ThisDay Newspaper offices in Abuja and Kaduna and other newspapers, were planned to tell the media that they were not immune to attacks.

LAST week, the Presidential Panel on Rationalisation and Restructuring of Federal Government Parastatals, headed by former head of the Cuvil Service of the Federation, Mr Steve Oronsaye submitted its report to the President, Dr Goodluck Jonathan.

Two young Nigerian internet entrepreneurs at the weekend, emerged millionaires in the Nigerian Internet Group, NIG’s Internet for Job I4J competition.

A SURULERE Magistrate Court sitting in Lagos has remanded a 56-year old man (names withheld) in Kirikiri prison for allegedly inserting his fingers into the private part of a three-year old girl. Both the man said to be a grandfather and the little live in the same block in Masha area of Surulere.

But for providence, members and management of the Methodist Church Nigeria, located at Owolowo street, Ikorodu, Lagos would have been thrown into mourning following an attempt by a young man to plant an explosive device there after scaling the fence of the church compound.

SECOND National Carrier, Globacom opened a new phase of its multinational operations last Sunday as Glo Mobile Ghana formally announced the commencement of commercial services in the country.