The Governing Council of the International Inner Wheel of Nigeria has declared its intension to partner experts at the Laurea University of Applied Sciences, Finland, inventor of cheap solar energy, on the provision of renewable energy in specific rural areas in Nigeria.

ALLEGED favouritism and politicization of appointments and promotion of staff by the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, are reportedly causing tension and disaffection in the nation’s apex banking institution.

It was a lecture to mark the 40th anniversary of the repentance of Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor from the life of crime.

Inspector General of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, Mr John Parsons, has been sacked.

A TWO day national energy efficiency summit which ended in Abuja at the weekend has called on the Federal government to create an enabling environment and adequate awareness on the importance and gains of energy efficiency in meeting national development.

A middle-aged woman, Foluke Olayiwola, has dragged her husband Festus Olayiwola to an Ojo grade A Customary court, for allegedly putting pepper in her private part and also trying to strangulate her.

Bayelsa State Government is to spend about N6bn to renovate, upgrade and reconstruct schools’ facilities as part of plans to revitalise the education sector which was crippled by the recent flood.

Trial in the on-going case against the former Managing Director of Bank PHB (now Keystone Bank), Francis Atuche and three others continued yesterday with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, as the anti graft agency produced one of its witnesses, Mr. Bolaji Ogunsola, who had requested for court’s protection over fear of attack.

I have taken an interest in the performance of companies quoted on the Nigerian Stock Exchange, NSE, from the late 1990s onwards. At that time, I had to visit the Registrars of most companies in order to retrieve family share certificates destroyed in a fire incident. Given the amount of paperwork I encountered, I had to ask myself if some of the share certificates were sufficiently valuable for me to complete the recovery process. I discovered that a number of companies had disappeared from the daily lists of the NSE, especially banks and unit trust funds that had failed with shareholders losing all their investments.

Arising from the just concluded National Healthcare Waste Summit in Abuja, participants at the summit have called for urgent adoption of the Draft National Policy and Strategic Plan on healthcare waste management and development of appropriate legislative/regulatory frameworks for sound healthcare waste management in the country.