The National Assembly is ignoring the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) and the Nigerian Shippers’ Council (NSC) in its legislative effort to create a technical regulator for port operations in the country.

The Vice-Chancellor of the Federal University of Technology, Akure, Professor Adebiyi Daramola, has described regular professional validation for academic programmes in universities as critical for maintaining standard and keeping in touch with developments in relevant fields.

The time has come for Nigerians with the interest of the football industry at heart to collectively speak up against the insistence of a group claiming to be League Clubs Owners to hold down the elite football league which by all indices is the bedrock of the game in the country.

The Federal Ministry of Education kick-started the process of cooperation with the Czech Government on the development of the nation’s technical and vocational education during the Minister of State for Education, Barr. Ezenwo Nyesom Wike’s meeting with officials of the Vitkovice Secondary School, Czech’s largest vocational institution in Czech Republic recently.

Stage and Screen can spearhead the campaign of Re-Branding Nigeria but should be keenly guarded by the knowledge and wisdom of active Censors Board.

Telecoms regulatory authority, the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, yesterday, imposed fines on four mobile services operators including Etisalat, MTN, Airtel and Globacom respectively for contravening the provisions on pre-registration of SIM Cards in Nigeria.

Plateau State Government has joined the Federal Government to raise the standard of teachers in the country by way of improving the human capacity of its teachers.

A 24-year-old police constable, Gaius Asogwa, was yesterday arraigned before an Ebute-Metta Chief Magistrate Court in Lagos, on one-count charge of unlawful killing of a commercial motorcyclist, popularly called Okada rider.

LAST week working people celebrated May Day, the international day of working class solidarity. Since 1981, May Day has become a national holiday in Nigeria.

Recently, more than 200 workers(admin, production and management staff) of Hong Xing Steel Company Limited, at Amuwo- Odofin industrial estate in Lagos, were ordered out of the company’s premise, leaving only security personnel at the gate.

Chief of Army Staff, Lt. General Azubuike Ihejirika, yesterday, lamented that the increasing wave of socio-political and ethno-religious violence recorded in different parts of the country was draining the resources of the Nigerian Army.

The debate on whether the modern legal system should recognize exemplary damages at all has been on and all in all the case for dispensing with them has been made out. The central argument is that they are anomalous in the civil sphere confusing the civil and criminal functions of the law.

CUSTOMS agents operating at the Port Terminal Multi-purpose Services Limited (PTML) at the Tin Can Island port have shut down Grimaldi Shipping Company for imposing chargesreceived from the company (agents) during the last May day celebration.

Oil firms boosted foreign exchange supply with $480 million in April while the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) sold $2.1 billion at the bi-weekly foreign exchange auction, said Financial Market Dealers Association (FMDA).

… as NASS assures on PIB passage
Nigerian unit of America’s ExxonMobil Corporation said it planned to invest up to $33 billion (N4.9 trillion) in the country’s oil and gas sector over the next five years.