Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON) has dispatched its enforcement officers to go to various markets nationwide to seize and destroy substandard electric bulbs and lamps, saying 80 per cent of them are inferior.

Dr. Joseph Odumodu, Director-General of the agency, who handed down the order during a meeting with dealers of electric bulbs and lamps in Lagos, said that any bulb and lamp found below standards should be seized and destroyed immediately.

Nigeria and Kenya are to benefit from the $2 million General Electric, Africa and US African Development Foundation, USADF grant as part of a three-year Power Africa Off-Grid Energy Challenge.

Nigeria’s Aruna Quadri at the weekend led his Portuguese club, G. D. Toledos to win the Portugal Super Cup after beating CP Oliverinha 3-0.

THE apparent decision of the Presidency to go hard on non-compliant members of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the National Assembly appears to be favouring the factional new PDP.

The death toll from last week’s attack in Borno State that saw insurgents dressed as soldiers, set up checkpoints and gun down travellers on a highway, has risen to, at least, 142.

Just in case public sector workers fail to get the point, the Federal Government went further to declare that “only actual earnings will be shared.” Again for those who might not understand the meaning of that statement, it means that the Federal Government will no longer dip into the excess crude oil to make up the difference between budgeted earnings and actual income. Typical of governments everywhere, the Federal Government failed to tell the entire story – perhaps because it might be too alarming. Yet, the truth must be told to enable public servants, at all three tiers of government, as well as creditors to government to prepare for the inevitable. And, what is inexorable?

FIVE leaders of the National Union of Banks, Insurance and Financial Institutions Employees, NUBIFIE, who have been in custody were weekend released after spending over two weeks in Police cell and Ikoyi Prisons.

I arrived the country from a CAF assignment in Dolisie, CongoBrazzaville to hear that Nigerian sports writers were spoiling for war with the Nigeria Football Federation ( NFF ) over “an insult heaped on the media by the NFF over some record keeping”

Every September 5 has been designated the ‘International Charity Day’ by the United Nations, UN. The maiden edition this year had Mr. Ban Ki-Moon, Secretary-General of the UN urging mankind to donate, volunteer and act with kindness for the betterment of the human race.

Visa Nigeria, has unveiled the Africa Integration Index, a study that measures the degree of economic integration within key trade corridors of sub-Saharan Africa.

The Deputy Governor, Financial Stability System of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Dr Kingsley Moghalu, has said that continuous strengthening of regulation in the banking sector, as well as various reforms in the sector have helped to improve the financial system and the entire economy.

The real estate sector recorded a growth of 10.88 percent in the second quarter of 2013, which is a slight increase over the 10.06 percent growth recorded in the first quarter of the year.

Governorship candidate of Labour Party, LP, in Anambra State, Dr. Ifeanyi Ubah, weekend, dismissed insinuations that the people of Anambra North senatorial zone would not support his candidature, having produced the governor of the state since the state was created.

Euro Global Foods and Distilleries Limited has urged companies in the beverage sector of the Nigeria economy to source their raw materials locally, saying this will help grow the economy and ensure the companies compete effectively with their peers in the international market.