A state of emergency have been declared for the remaining seven round of matches in the Glo Premier League starting with the Week 32 matches coming up midweek at various centres. The declaration is the highlight of a 12 points resolution reached at a joint consultative meeting between the League Management Company (LMC) and Club Owners held on Sunday at the Grand Bee hotel in Ikeja, Lagos.

Worried by the growing incidence of terrorism and money laundering in Nigeria, the World Bank and the Nigerian government have developed a template to tackle the twin evil, which has been prevalent in the country lately.

President Goodluck Jonathan, has pledged his continuing support to UN-Habitat and promised to keep promoting the urban agenda in Africa.

Pharmacists under the aegis of the Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria, PSN, have urged Federal government to jettison the idea of appointing a Surgeon-General to steer the affairs of the health industry in Nigeria, as it would amount to duplication of roles.

DO you know that meats slaughtered in any illegal abattoir may be dangerous to human health? How? They are not tested by any competent Veterinary Doctors to certify their safety consumption level for human.

The waste of a staggering 1.3 billion tonnes of food per year is not only causing major economic losses but also wreaking significant harm on the natural resources that humanity relies upon to feed itself, says a new FAO report released last Thursday

The Managing Director, Midwestern Oil and Gas Company, Mr. Adams Okoene, recently intimated journalist on some developments within the company, and plans for the future as captured by Vanguard. Excerpt:

THE CBN boss said the Nigerian Payments System would witness a boost when several proposed mobile technology initiatives become operational.

Yesterday we ran the first instalment of this book serial, in which you read how starched uniforms and brass bands was all it took for young Godwin Alabi-Isama to decide on a lifetime in the military, and trained in Nigeria and Aldershot, England. As tactics instructor at military school, he had the honour of being sent on a recruitment tour during which he brought some of today’s big names into the Army. READ ON.

Until last week, analysts were sceptical about the success privatisation of the nation’s 15 electricity Generation Companies, GENCOs, and Electricity Distribution Companies, DISCOs.

WHEN President Goodluck Jonathan at the Presidential Stakeholders Retreat on Housing and Urban Development, promised that the Federal Government will revolutionalise the housing sector by translating the National Housing Policy and National Urban Development Policy into a road map for housing development, it was expected that many would be enthusiastic.

On the top ten performing stocks last week were Jos International Breweries Plc, Vono Products Plc, Portland Paints & Products Nigeria Plc, IHS Plc, Courteville Business Solution Plc and Ikeja Hotels Plc.

A 50-year-old artisan, Christopher Ozor, was, yesterday, arraigned by the police, before an Igbosere Magistrate Court in Lagos, for allegedly using a broken bottle to stab his neighbour, Mr. Ikenna Chukwudi, on the head during a scuffle.

DELTA State Commissioner for Special Duties in charge of Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission, DESOPADEC, Mr Tonye Timi, has charged oil producing communities in the state to monitor projects being executed by the commission in their areas as a way of checking abandonment of projects.

Stakeholders in the maritime industry have appealed to the Lagos State Government to exclude petrol and kerosene trucks from wharf landing fees because “such fees affect the availability and price of the products in certain parts of the country.”