Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State, yesterday, urged the Nigerian Tourism Development Company, NTDC, to adhere strictly to the Supreme Court judgment on tourism, licensing and grading of hotels and other hospitality businesses in federating states.

MEMBER representing Warri Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives, Mr. Daniel Reyenieju, has appealed to his kinsmen to embrace peace and engage in serious intra-Itsekiri dialogue as it was the way to resolve the current crisis plaguing the ancient Warri throne.

Chemistry and waste management are crucial in the development of small and medium enterprises. This view was canvassed by environmentalists who spoke at the just concluded 5th Mandatory Continuing Professional Development, MCPD workshop organised by the Institute of Chartered Chemists of Nigeria, ICCON. The experts submitted that chemistry and waste management will boost the development of SMEs if well managed.

Nigerians will soon access good quality and affordable health care services when and where ever they need it regardless of financial and social status, if the National Health bill is passed into law. This assertion was made at a forum for stakeholders, enrolees, healthcare facilities and Health Maintenance Organizations, HMOs, of the National Health Insurance Scheme, NHIS, in Port-Harcourt recently.

Nigeria’s Environmental Rights Action, ERA, has warned that the African Mining Vision, AMV, adopted by the African Union, AU, in 2009 to provide guidance on how mining must be managed may not favour the continent.

I bought Spring Mortgage some years back and up till now, I have not heard from them (Ejiogu Godfrey)

Emmanuel Emenike, scorer of Nigeria’s first goal against Malawi Saturday night showed the patriot in him when he declared that he was ready to play for Nigeria for free, saying winning a shirt to play for the national team was a greater motivation than monetary inducement.

Investors’ preference for mid and small cap stocks saw nine of such companies emerging on the top ten performing table last week. Apart from PZ Cussons, that featured in the eight position, the rest were low priced stocks.

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has disclosed plans to partner with the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) on biometric data capturing in the capital market.

The Department of Petroleum Resources, DPR said it generated over N470 billion in revenue in the first half, thereby surpassing its projected targets by over N86 billion.

The Peo-ples Democratic Party, PDP, in Bayelsa State, may be heading for a fresh crisis, following the emergence of a group, new Bayelsa PDP, led by loyalists of former Governor Timipre Sylva.

AS part of efforts to empower women and girls in Nigeria make informed reproductive health choices, no less than four million female condoms have been received by the Society for Family Health, SFH from the United Nations Population Fund,UNFPA, under the Universal Access to Female Condom, UAFC, Country Programme Phase II initiative.

JOSEPH OKPOYE: I want to tell you that contrary to the requirement of the Nigerian Companies and Allied Matter Act, CAMA, that financial reports of companies should be delivered to the shareholders before the day of the Annual General Meeting, most registrars and companies wait until the day of the meeting before giving the report, leaving the shareholders no room to study the report.

A 30-year-old man, Azubuike Ogamba, was, yesterday, charged before an Ojo Chief Magistrate Court, Lagos, for allegedly stealing seven fairly-used refrigerators valued at N171,000.