BEING a littoral state and the commercial hub of the country, Lagos has attracted more ships and vessels than any other city in Sub Saharan Africa since the Portuguese explorer Ruy de Sequeira named the area around the city Lago de Curamo, meaning lakes in Portuguese.

BETWEEN 1994 and 2006, about 48 banks ceased to exist for sundry reasons. Some of the people that had money in these banks, assumed that their money died with the banks. It is not so. Part of their deposits were insured by the Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation (NDIC). In the last two editions, we explained how deposit insurance works, the maximum insured deposit, liquidation dividend.

Women Arise, a non-governmental organisation, has urged Shell Petroleum Development Company to commence the clean-up of oil spills at Ikarama community in Bayelsa State.

AS the set time for the actualisation of the Nigerian Stock Exchange, NSE, $1 trillion market capitalisation approaches, capital market operators have advised the management of the Exchange to intensify efforts of wooing companies in the upstream and downstream oil and gas and telecommunication sectors to list.

Against the backdrop of the epileptic state of public infrastructure in Africa due to the dearth of funds to finance their provision or replacement, Nigerian Quantity Surveyors last week, renewed the call for the establishment of an African Infrastructure Development Bank, AIDB or African Construction Development Bank, ACDB.

Three out of five Gbyagi natives charged to court last month over their alleged involvement in a violent attack on the Chief of Jere following a land dispute at Issah village, near Jere town in Kagarko Local Government Area, LGA, of Kaduna State were yesterday returned to prison

NIgerian Optometrists have called for comprehensive evaluation of children with visual impairment starting from birth with a view to nip in the bud avoidable blindness among Nigerian children.

THIS is the way we brush our teeth,brush our teeth, brush our teeth, this is the way we brush our teeth, early in the morning.”

A House of Representatives aspirant on the platform of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Edo State, Mr. Sergius Ogun, has decried what he termed the abysmal slots accorded youths by the Federal Government at the on-going national conference.

WARRI—FOR the first time since hostilities broke out in January, warring factions in the crisis-torn Ugborodo community, Warri South-West Local Government Area of Delta State, have met without third party observers at a unity gathering, indicating that peace may soon return to the volatile community.

Itsekiri youths, under the aegis of Itsekiri National Youths Council, INYC, have condemned the destruction of oil pipelines by a group in Warri North Local Government Area of Delta State, warning that same should not be preparatory to a possible attack and destruction of Itsekiriland and its people.

A Federal High Court sitting in Warri, Delta State, has sacked Mr. Ogeibiri Kenneth, Chairman of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Burutu Local Government Area of the state, declaring Mr. Korokorosei Sagbegha as the duly elected chairman at the last council congress of the party conducted in the area.

Christian and Muslim leaders in Benue State have urged the federal and Benue State governments to take decisive steps to end the persistent violent clashes between Benue farmers and suspected Fulani herdsmen in parts of the state.

Pandemonium broke out Saturday when a security aide attached to Najeem Salaam, Speaker of Osun State House of Assembly, simply identified as Idowu, allegedly shot another colleague identified as Bunmi, also attached to the Speaker, to death at Ika, a village in Ejigbo Local Government Area of the state during a public function.

A TOTAL of N1.92 trillion is required annually to meet the health needs of all Nigerians. Executive Secretary/CEO of the National Health Insurance Scheme, NHIS, Dr. Femi Thomas, who disclosed this in Lagos, said an estimated 70.8 million Nigerians are expected to be enrolled on the programme by 2015.