The Shell Hall Muson Centre Lagos will come alive with a live concert featuring King Sunny Ade and Millie Jackson. The A-list event, billed for Friday, 1st of November 2013 is the first of its kind and also first of many platforms from the Jadeite Group to signify the official launch of the luxury brand in Nigeria.

Nigerian Export–Import Bank (NEXIM)has stated that it has provided N12 billion in lending to Nigerian export manufacturers, many of who carry the “Proudly Nigerian” label on their products in the West African sub-regional market and globally naira in the period August 2009 to April 2013.

7-Up Bottling Company will spend as much as N681 million in 2013 in pursuing outstanding court cases, even as it spent N2.26 billion in servicing different banks’ loans in the year ended 31stMarch, 2013.

It’s very likely that you love your smart phone or tablet. It’s also very likely that somebody else does too. More often than not, a compliment, and a few ‘oohs’ and ‘aahs’ would suffice. Unfortunately, some people take it to the next level and would attempt to steal it. Here are four ways you can help them do just that:

Insecurity, economic downturn and general apathy towards the celebration of this years eid-il-adha have been adduced as reasons for the soaring prices of rams in the market as well as the resultant low purchasing pattern of Muslims at the moment.

A 36-year-old driver, Abayomi Omojowo, was yesterday arraigned before an Ikeja magistrate’s court over alleged robbery of valuables worth N12 million.

National Programme for Food Security (NPFS) under the Federal Ministry of Agriculture, in conjunction with the People’s Republic of China and the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO), convened a high level forum aimed at showcasing the achievements of South-South Cooperation programme in Nigeria and other participating African nations. According to the organisers, SSC is the mutual sharing and exchange of key development solutions – knowledge, experiences, good practices, policies, technology, know-how and resources, between and among countries in the global south.

PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan, yesterday, called for cease fire on the part of the OndoState government and the family of former Governor Olusegun Agagu on the blame game over who hired the ill fated aircraft.

TONYE Harry, the distinguished, smart and immensely likeable former Speaker of the Rivers State House of Assembly, and Vice Chairman of the Nigerian Tennis Federation, died last week in an air ambulance.

Bayelsa State governor, Mr. Seriake Dickson, yesterday, called for the review of the country’s revenue sharing formula to reflect true federalism.

IT is apposite that even in the deportation of an alien the appropriate authority cannot act arbitrarily but must follow due process, which often involves ministerial, administrative or judicial Deportation Order, open for the affected alien to challenge in court.

Most Imams are inundated with calls and questions on whether women are allowed to observe the eid prayers. A couple of hadiths emphasised on the issue giving the leeway to women to proceed to eid, observe the superrogatory prayers and participate in the joyous occasion of eid.

Nigerians by nature are hard working people; after a hard day’s work they feel the need to return to their homes to revitalize their energies. To achieve this, they opt for the entertainment, household and mobile devices provide. However for most people the challenge most times is how they can operate these contraptions without expending more energy. This brings to the fore voice command technology, a technology that makes it possible for consumers to talk to devices and have them do what they desire.

THE Middle Belt Progressive Movement, has commended President Goodluck Jonathan for the planned national conference, saying it will give the minority tribes opportunity to inform Nigerians and others, the sufferings they have been passing through all these years in silence.

The Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Justice Mariam Aloma Mukhtar, will today, swear-in Justice Ibrahim Bukar as the Chief Judge of the Federal Capital Territory.