The Presidency has taken steps to pacify the Itshekiri ethnic nationality with the award of 52 scholarship slots to the indigenes of the area to pursue graduate and post-graduate studies in the United Kingdom under its capacity building programme.

FOREMOST real estate development company, Messrs UACN Property Development Company Plc, has unveiled plans to boost its rich portfolio of real estate development with six new projects commencing simultaneously in five cities across Nigeria this year. The upcoming housing projects include, Olive Court in Agodi G. R. A. Ibadan, Oyo State, The Pinnacle located in Maitama area of F. C. T., Abuja, James Pinnock Place located in Lekki Phase Three, Lagos, The Residences located in Festac, Lagos, Pineville Estate in G. R. A. Asaba, Delta State and Golf Estate, Calabar, Cross River State.

Proforce, an indigenous armoured car maker in Nigeria, currently produces 25 of such vehicles monthly, targeting an annual production of 480.
Managing Director of Proforce, Mr. Ade Ogundeyin, yesterday disclosed at the meeting of Nigerian Automotive Manufacturers Association, NAMA, in Abuja, that the demand for armoured vehicles had increased from five to 25 monthly and 300 in a year, adding that the company’s plant was built to produce no less than 40 armoured vehicles every month and 480 every year.

The Nasarawa State Universal Basic Education Board, SUBEB, said more than 800 science and mathematics teachers in the state would benefit from a special training programme, this year.
The programme was part of the bilateral agreement between Nigeria and Japan.

The Kebbi Government has earmarked N140.6 million for the construction of four additional nomadic schools to emnhance access to education for children of nomads.
Alhaji Nasiru Masama, the Senior Special Assistant to Gov. Saidu Dakingari on Nomadic Affairs made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, yesterday in Birnin Kebbi.

THE 2015 senatorial election in Delta South will be a litmus test in the struggle for legitimacy and freedom from election riggers, who rob the people of their mandate, says Organising for Delta, OfD, the campaign organisation of Prince Yemi Emiko.

FOR Lagos State Public Works Corporation, LSPWC to realise its vision of becoming the “foremost road maintenance and rehabilitation Agency in Africa”, the Corporation has set new targets aimed at raising the bar of progression in performance for 2014.

The Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Umar Manko has said that his command will never neglect its duties of ensuring adequate security in the state.

The governor, yesterday, signed the 2014 N489.69 billion Appropriation Bill into law, saying, it aimed at completing the on-going projects, and consolidate on the previous achievements.

A civil society group, International Society for Civil Liberties and the Rule of Law, Intersociety, has called on the Federal Government to properly fund the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to conduct free and fair general elections in 2015.