The year 2013 may end well for International Breweries Plc, the brewers of Trophy beer and Betamalt, a non-alcoholic drink, going by the unaudited figures for first of the year already available to the investing public.

TUCKED in Okupe estate in Maryland Lagos is a privately owned Sculptural garden. This property which plays host to a number of local and international visitors annually, is owned by renowned art collector and promoter, Engr. Yemisi Adedoyin Shyllon.

National President, Cocoa Association of Nigeria (CAN), Mr. Sayina Robinson Riman, has picked holes in the call for a ban on the export of cocoa beans from Nigeria by the Cocoa Processors Association of Nigeria (COPAN) Riman said it was “wrong for COPAN to have expressed its view on the pages newspapers, since such could be done through CAN, which is the umbrella association of all professional and interest groups in the cocoa value chain.

THE need for quality leadership as an antidote for national transformation has been in the forefront of discourse as eminent Nigerians have highlighted the need for this in the polity.

Obiagwu continues this week with this article on why the human rights community must go back to the trenches.

The federal government will complete the three other tank reservoirs at the Atlas cove and the pipeline from there to Mosimi through Ejigbo, Senior Special Adviser to the President on Maritime Matters, Leke Oyewole, has said.

THE House of Representatives, Wednesday, passed a vote of confidence on its Speaker, Aminu Waziri Tambuwal. The motion for the vote of confidence was moved by Bello Osagie, ACN-Edo State, following an earlier motion by Hon. Ogbuefi Ozomgbachi over media reports that there was an attempt to impeach Tambuwal.

In fulfilling its bilateral agreement with the Nigerian government, the Japanese government handed over to the Federal Government 33 schools comprising 77 buildings and 317classrooms for basic education sited in Kano State.

NIGERIAN Bar Association, NBA, Wednesday, condemned the refusal of the National Assembly, to approve budgetary appropriation for Securities and Exchange Commission, SEC, for year 2013 budget because of the face-off between members of the House of Representatives and Director-General of SEC, Ms. Arunma Oteh.

Imagine dropping your children off to school in the morning, and watch them jump off the car, with their school bags strapped behind them. They wave you goodbye as they run along with their friends.

ABUJA—The Minister of State for Federal Capital Territory, Oloye Olajumoke Akinjide, yesterday, assured that the Federal Government and FCT Administration were committed to ensuring that Nigeria was self-sufficient in rice production by 2015.

The shake up is said to have been approved by the Managing Director of the Authority, Mallam Habib Abdullahi. The new disposition affected all the Port Managers who have been redeployed, except that of Warri.

Nigerians recently,celebrated the 48th anniversary of the beginning of what is almost certainly the most storied legal career of his generation, to celebrate what a committed and good man can accomplish and inspire even in the face of odds that seem insurmountable.

Permanent Secretary of the Federal Ministry of Power, Dr. Dere Awosika, has called on Nigerian leaders and its people to collectively work towards sustaining the country as one indivisible entity in the interest of all.

President Goodluck Jonathan has charged members of the Super eagles to ensure that their performance at the African Cup of Nations in South Africa this weekend reflect Nigeria’s status as Africa’s giant.