•FRSC, VIS, talk tough on enforcement…
Owners of vehicles with old number plates are in for a tough time with law enforcement agents, if the threat by Federal Road Safety Commission, FRSC, Lagos State Vehicle Inspection Service, VIS, and the Police is anything to go by as enforcement on new vehicle number plate commences on Tuesday, October 1, 2013.

THE Itsekiri Leaders of Thought, ILoT, yesterday, asked the Olu of Warri, Ogiame Atuwatse II, to renounce his new edict, rejecting the ‘Ogiame’ title of the Warri monarch.

The Nigerian Elections Debate Group, NEDG, a coalition of broadcast organizations, civil societies and professional groups committed to deepening democracy and entrenching an enduring democratic culture through organized and televised live debates, is to organize debates for all the candidates and their running mates in the November 16 governorship election in Anambra State.

A Lagos-based property development firm, Messrs Propertygate Development and Investment Plc, has given a boost to housing provision in the popularLekki peninsular corridor with the completion of a highbrow mini residential housing estate.

Mixed reactions have continued to trail the recent Federal Government agreement with the medical and health workers, particularly on the issue of the Chairman of the Nursing and Midwifery Council of Nigeria, NMCN, a parastatal of the Federal Government of Nigeria established by Act Cap. No143 Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004.

The Federal Government has disclosed that gas flaring has been reduced in the country to about 20 per cent over the last two years.

Thus today (September 4), this assembly is now convened to set a new order in place for us, Iwere people, which will supersede the old one that has been in operation since the founding of this kingdom.

AS the SEPTEMBER 1, 2013 deadline elapsed for pharmaceutical companies to fully comply with utilisation of the Mobile Authentication Service, MAS, technology on their regulated products, the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, has urged Nigerians not to accept antimalarials and antibiotics without the MAS code on their packs.

Unperturbed by the controversy that trailed the celebration of Oranyan, a Yoruba legend, last year, the Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi has concluded arrangements for the second year celebration of the Yoruba deity.

In the last edition, we made a case for concerted, deliberate plan to educate investors at the retail level. Such effort will facilitate inflow of funds into the capital market from the grassroots. Most importantly, it will enhance confidence among retail investors, and help militate against many of the malpractices presently going on in the market.

After blowing away Zambia to qualify for the final stage of the 2014 FIFA World Cup qualifiers, Ghana’s Black Stars are bracing for a tough two-leg palyoff for a place in Brazil, but Coach Kwasi Appiah has been spared the headache of facing one of the continent’s heavyweights in the final stage of the qualifiers.

To strengthen local content development, an indigenous company, CNS Marine Nigeria Limited, said that it has acquired three vessels worth over $50 million (N6 billion) for offshore services in Nigeria.

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.

ABUJA—The Minister of Women Affairs and Social Development, Hajia Zainab Maina, has expressed concern over the failure of the National Assembly to domesticate the United Nation, UN, report on the Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women, CEDAW.

This is the third and concluiding part of this piece. The second part was published Monday.

THE damage to the accountancy profession in Nigeria was colossal. Subsequently, at the international level serious doubts were being raised about the quality of accounts emanating from Nigeria. To my mind, no purpose is served by being in denial, without going through the rigorous exercise of separating perception from reality.