An army corporal, Tuesday, shot dead a Police Inspector in Mikang Local Government Area of Plateau State following an argument.

THE Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), made over $1.8million (N466million) in the last nine months of last year from ship dues received from the Harbours department of the Delta ports alone.

In Africa one does not greet and walk away. Greetings come with its compliments of best wishes,prayers and even praise.

Mali have dropped penalty shootout star Soumaila Diakite for Wednesday’s Africa Cup of Nations semi-final against Nigeria.

LAGOS — NEARLY three months after the Federal Government revok- ed the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway concession given to Bi-Courtney Limited, BCL, the firm declared yesterday that it deserved praises for saving the highway from total collapse.

ABUJA—Alleged member of the Boko Haram Islamic sect, Mustaphar Umar, Tuesday, denied complicity in the bomb explosions that destroyed offices of Thisday Newspaper, Moment Newspaper and the Sun Newspaper in Kaduna state on April 26, 2012.

LAGOS—The Vice Chancellor, University of Lagos, Professor Rahamon Bello, has said the university plans to build a new 15-floor library that befits the current and future needs of the institution, to be funded with the TETFUND of N3bn high impact intervention.

IBADAN—AUTO crash, Tuesday, killed four persons and left three others seriously injured along Ibadan/Ife highway.

Sokoto—Governor Aliyu Wamakko of Sokoto State, Tuesday, signed the 2013 Appropriation as well as three other bills into law.

Members of the NIgerian delegation at the Pre match meeting in Durban, Tuesday, heaved a sigh of relief as NIgeria’s colours were announced.

At the launch of the Microsoft 4Africa initiative yesterday in Lagos, the global software giant, has disclosed its plans to commit about N12 billion in the African market as part of its initiative to help improve the continent’s global competitiveness.

For the first time in the history of Nigeria, a cable car company, Ropeways Transport Limited, is set to launch a cable car mass urban transit system in the nation’s commercial capital, Lagos. This followed the signing of a 30-year Franchise Agreement between Ropeways Transport Limited, the Lagos Metropolitan Area Transport Authority (LAMATA) and the Lagos State Government recently.

The recent ban imposed by the Nigerian Communications Commission on lotteries and promotions being conducted by mobile phone network operators is one that has received mixed reactions in the media, some of which are against the ban.

RISING from a national stakeholders’ workshop and exhibition on National System of Innovation (NSI), participants resolved that for Nigeria to become one of the top 20 economies by the year 2020, the country needs to urgently entrench science, technology and innovation into the system.

Un-accessed pension benefits under the care of Pension Fund Operators, PFAs, have continued to grow as contributors to the scheme gradually retire.