The Minister of Information, Mr Labaran Maku, has advised Nigerian editors to define and promote national interest in their daily reportage.

Maku gave the advice yesterday in Uyo at the opening ceremony of the 8th All Nigeria Editors Conference organised by the Nigerian Guild of Editors, NGE. He lauded Nigerian journalists for being always at the forefront of nationalist movements and the fight for Nigeria’s unity.

Generally, all acts of worship, through financial expenditure are by broader definition classified as Sadaqah. But by extension, good deeds and acts that tend to save or ameliorate the sufferings of another creature of God are also considered as sadaqah. Today, we are not going to focus on Zakat as it implies but other acts of worship that are not only ihsan but also Sadaqah.

The enumeration exercise to capture data of all paid and unpaid signage and outdoor advertising structures embarked on by Lagos State Signage & Advertisement Agency, LASAA, in March 2012, has ended, with a record of 300 percent increase in signs, 70 percent in billboards.

WARRI—OIL thieves and barons have threatened the lives of top officials and workers of Oil Facility Surveillance Limited, OFSL, Warri, Delta State, a pipeline surveillance company contracted by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, to police the facilities in the state, for allegedly demolishing their illegal refineries.

Nine years ago, there were long queues in Nigerian cities especially Abuja. It cost more than 20,000 to purchase a sim card when Nigeria introduced GSM telecommunications. Globacom stormed the scene more than one year after and crashed the price to N5,000.