ABUJA — The Executive Vice Chairman of Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, Engr. Eugene Juwah, has said the commission was ready to roll out the much awaited Number Portability by the end of this month.

TRADE Union Congress, TUC, Women Commission and the International Federation of Women Lawyers, FIDA, have appealed to the Lagos State House of Assembly, to immediately pass into law, the Domestic Violence against Women Bill.

PRESIDENT and founder of Oodua People’s Congress, OPC, Dr. Frederick Fasehun, weekend, urged the group to continue to defend the interests of the Yoruba race as well as those described as “strangers” living in Yorubaland.

KANO—Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, has commended Federal Government’s plan to build dry and perishable cargo terminal in Kano, adding that viable airports would contribute to the growth of the nation’s economy.

ABUJA — CHIEF Whip of the House of Representatives, Ishaka Bawa, has informed that the Petroleum Industry Bill, PIB, would be taken to the six geo-political zones of the country for all Nigerians to have their input.

As Nigeria prepares for its centenary celebrations, many are raising issues on the amalgamation of Northern and Southern Protectorate of Nigeria, by Lord Luggard, blaming the country’s woes on that singular act. Many Nigerians are still fatigued with the coming together of Northern and Southern Nigeria to become one Nigeria.

Minister of Trade and Investment, Mr. Olusegun Aganga, spoke with Business Editors during a Stakeholders’ Forum to kick off the first of its kind National Enterprise Development Programme (NEDEP). The minister said NEDEP will reposition the MSMEs sub-sector as the major driver of job creation and wealth generation.

ABUJA — Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Minister, Senator Bala Abdulkadir Mohammed has commended the electorate, the entire residents of FCT, the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC over the peaceful and harmonious conduct of the Area Council election held on Saturday, March 16, 2013 throughout the territory.

The Federal Government has lost a whopping N90 billion (about $550 million) in revenue from tax evasion to the grey market operators in the automobile industry over the last four years.

There is need to do a proper re-evaluation of the N22.9 billion forbearance package recently granted 82 stockbrokers that got involved in margin trading to differentiate genuine and fraudulent margin loans structured in connivance with banks, said Victor Ogiemwonyi, Managing Director, Partnership Investment Plc.