AS part of strategies for Nigeria to attain its projected growth by 2020 and tackle the high rate of youth’s unemployment, the Minister of State for Trade and Investment, Dr. Samuel Ortom, has called for stronger trade relations between Nigeria and China in the area of agricultural investment.

An Adamawa State High Court sitting in Yola, yesterday, dismissed the case filed by the former executives of the state chapter of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.

TO fast-track IT penetration in the country, the Ministry of Communications Technology has perfected a three-pronged strategy through the Student PC ownership scheme launched last week by the Minister, Mrs Omobola Johnson. The student PC ownership scheme is the first leg of the strategy, the other two being reversal of poor acceptance of local computer brands and poor capacity utilisation of indigenous PC assembly plants. It is hoped that the student PC ownership scheme will trigger action in the desired direction.

EVEN if it still continues with its destruction of properties and killings in different parts of the North in a mindless campaign of terror that is bound to end in its defeat, there is every indication that the terrorist group that has been hiding under the veneer of religion and avowed hatred of Western civilisation to commit unspeakable atrocities is running out of steam.

WHICH of the following statements, in your opinion, best reflects President Goodluck Jonathan’s “honest-to-God” attitude to corruption?

THE crises rocking Ugborodo Community over leadership tussle between two factions, both respectively laying claim to the Ugborodo Trust Board has deepened as the Eghare-Aja of Ugborodo, Chief Wellington Ojogor, has been reportedly kidnapped, yesterday, in Warri.

FEDERAL Government, yesterday, launched a National Oral Health Policy, with a promise to equip 12 federal tertiary hospitals with basic dental equipment across the federation.

Drama ensued at the Ministry of Education, yesterday, between the Minister of State for Education, Nyesom Wike and Director-General of National Teachers Institute, NTI, Dr. Ladan Sharehu, over the disparity in Strengthening Mathematics and Science Education, SMASE, proposed budget.

MOVED by the plight of those sacked from their homes by flood, the Orodje of Okpe, HRM Orhue I; FRSC; Delta Unity Club; Ughelli Council of Knights, Anglican Communion, have donated cows, food stuffs and other materials to flood victims in Delta State’s relief camps.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) have said that as an effort to tackle corruption in the country, they are ready to prosecute any printing firm in Nigeria which engages in production of fake documents.