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.

THE increasing rate of criminal activities in Mafoluku/Oshodi and Shogunle areas of Lagos State is taken a new dimension. It has heightened the fears of the residents as different criminal activities ranging from robbery, theft and vandalisation of cables of Power Holding Company, Nigeria, PHCN, and nocturnal attacks by hoodlums popularly called area boys, have resurfaced.

Governor Theodore Orji of Abia State has signed into law the 2012 Appropriation Bill with a promise to implement effectively the budget.

National Coordinator of Golden Cocoa Growers Association of Nigeria, GCOGAN, Dr. Tunde Arosanyin has criticised the Federal Government over its alleged poor agricultural policy, saying the government was paying lip service to the sector.

Managing Director of FBN Life Assurance Mr. Val Ojumah has said that his company has an edge in the insurance sector because it is capitalising on the branch network of First Bank Plc in the distribution of its products to every part of the country.

AGAINST the backdrop of unrestrained reign of terror across the country with its attendant loss of lives, Nigerian workers, yesterday, spoke with one voice expressing fear and anger over their continued existence even as former Defence Minister, General Theophilus Danjuma (rtd), concluded that Nigeria is presently on fire and tending towards the Somali experience.

OWERRI – The face-off between Imo State Government and indigenes of Owerri municipality over the forceful acquisition of their land in Area K, World Bank Housing Estate, has entered day 13.

Committed to improving data center efficiency lifecycle, Hewlett-Packard (HP) in collaboration with Intel Zion Processor has launched a US $300 million HP ProLiant Generation 8 (Gen8) servers, a new line of servers acclaimed to be “the industry’s most self-sufficient”.

United States Securities and Exchange Commission, SEC, has agreed to consider a request to establish a process for payment of some US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, FCPA, civil penalty and giving up of proceeds to or for the benefit of victimised foreign government agency or the citizens of the affected foreign country like Nigeria.

Lagos State Commissioner for Environment, Mr. Tunji Bello, has called on Lagos residents to verify the drainage level of their areas and obtain invert level of the major roads before constructing their buildings to ensure that houses are not submerged during rains. He also warned that those whose buildings are below the drainage level will experience perennial flooding.