MANUFACTURERS of iron and steel for telecommunication and electricity industry have called on the Federal Government to “Be the First” in buying quality Made-In- Nigeria products, saying this will lift the sector out of the wood.

A group of unidentified Customs officers at the Tin-Can Island Port Command of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has protested the indiscriminate transfer of officers without paying them transfer allowances.

The Organising Committee of the Life In My City Art Festival (LIMCAF), the Enugu based annual youth art festival, has announced a cast of experienced and internationally recognised photo artists who have accepted to be members of the Committee of Jurors for the 2013 edition of its Photo Africa contest.

2013 race to feature only professional runners Obudu international mountain race stars dominated the senior men’s race at the just concluded 30th Association WMRA World Mountain Running Championships held at Krynica Zdroj, Poland.

Ogun State Governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun has charged the 22-member of Uplift Football Team not to neglect their academic pursuit at the expense of developing talents, “education is the key no matter your depth of talents.”

AS part of its own contribution towards encouraging couples with infertility challenges, St Ives in collaboration with Ives Medicare Foundation is offering 50 percent discount in the cost of In Vitro Fertilization, IVF.

MEMBERS of Delta State House of Assembly resumed from a long vacation, yesterday, protesting alleged gross imbalance in the 2012 recruitment exercise carried out by the Federal Civil Service Commission, saying it was disheartening that out of 949 Deltans that took part, only three of them were employed.

Shareholders of Access Bank Plc, yesterday at the Court Ordered Extra –ordinary General Meeting (EGM) endorsed the proposal by its Board of Directors to unbundle the Bank’s shares in WAPIC Insurance Plc to them.

Sequel to Tuesday’s declaration by the Minister of State for Education, Mr. Nyesom Wike, that Nigeria currently has 35 million adult illiterates, the Federal Government has gone into partnership with the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation, UNESCO, to revitalize adult literacy education in the country.

The rising security challenges, which have led to the fall in the standard of education, poor leadership and governance, bad politics, among others, were brought to the fore at the recently held 14th Mike Okonkwo annual lecture.

ACTIVITIES at the Zone G office of the Nigerian Prisons Service, NPS, Benin City, Edo State, were brought to a standstill, Wednesday, following the news of the abduction of a Deputy Comptroller of Prisons from the formation.

ROBERTO Carlos has warned Chelsea that new striker Samuel Eto’o can have a ‘damaging’ influence on the dressing room.The former Anzhi Makhachkala team director revealed that the Cameroon striker interfered with his work at the Russian club to the point that he considered quitting.

UNDERGROUND move by some Itsekiri opinion leaders to impose sanction on the Olu of Warri, His Majesty, Ogiame Atuwatse II, for supposedly embarrassing the Itsekiri nation with his September 4 denunciation of the ‘Ogiame’ kingship appellation that was reversed on Tuesday, has collapsed.

An Akure Magistrate Court, Ondo State,Wenesday, remanded four men in prison for allegedly killing a police corporal, Edema Omoniyi.

Nigeria’s sprint sensation, Blessing Okagbare was Wednesday in Abuja honoured by President Goodluck Jonathan for her exploits at the last IAAF World Championships in Moscow, Russia.