Chairman of the Nigerian Communications Satellite (NIGCOMSAT) limited board, Prof. Turner Isoun last week bemoaned the continued proliferation and domination of foreign Information and Communications Technology (ICT) vendors in Nigeria.

IN 2005, Goldman Sachs Investment Bank forecast that Nigeria will be the 20th largest economy in the world by 2025 and the 12th largest by 2050; ahead of Italy, Canada and South Korea.

Suspended Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mallam Lamido Sanusi has again stirred the hornet’s nest as he declared yesterday that kerosine subsidy is a big scam operated by a cabal in government. Mallam Sanusi in an interview with New York Times yesterday also alleged that the money claimed for the subsidy was being used to finance election.

IBADAN— THREE persons, including a 92-year-old man, were burnt to death yesterday, when fire razed a church Mercyland Prayer Ministries at Idi Aro, Ibadan. Four others, including a pregnant woman, escaped death in the fire that started at 1:45am.

ABUJA—THE United Nations Education and Scientific Fund, UNICEF, yesterday, expressed its concern over the recent killing of children in the North Eastern part of the country by suspected Boko Haram members, saying it intends to embark on a verification exercise of the region to access the situation on ground.