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.

The ministry of finance has announced that it would issue a new chart of financial reporting that would guide the operations of both the public and private sectors from January 2013.