With barely two weeks to the expiration of the 60-day window given by the Standards Organisation of Nigeria, SON, to cement manufacturers in the country to comply with the new cement standards, Dangote Cement Company PLC, which has been in the vanguard of the crusade for cement standardization in Nigeria, last week, unveiled plans to launch its own brand of the premium 32.5 cement grade.

Eagles coach Stephen Keshi has said his team are now pressed to win in South Africa on Wednesday after they fell 3-2 at home to Congo.

Abuja—Former Vice President, Dr. Alex Ekwueme, weekend, submitted that it would be illogical to refer the report of the just-concluded national conference to the National Assembly for clause by clause consideration.

LOKOJA —The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, has uncovered an illegal refinery in Achuze, a boundary town between Kogi and Edo States.

As the September 25 elective congress of the Nigeria Football Federation(NFF) draws nearer, former international, Dominic Iorfa says he is the right man to succeed the immediate past president of the federation, Alhaji Aminu Maigari whose tenure expired on August 25, 2014.

ABUJA — A gubernatorial aspirant in Bauchi State, Abdulahi Usman Adamu, alias Dan China, has been declared wanted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, for allegedly obtaining $500,000 from a Chinese company, Shengjia International (HK) Limited, by false pretence.

The Federal Government has said that it has invested N1.6 billion on the rehabilitation of the rail lines linking the ports and some tank farms in Apapa, saying the project will be completed within the next three months.

The Federal Government has directed the Standard Organisation of Nigeria, SON, to begin full implementation of the new standards for cement.

The All Progressives Congress, APC, has described the presidential directive that all electoral materials must be printed by the Nigeria Security Printing and Minting Company, NSPMC, as a threat to the independence of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC and the organisation of a free, fair and credible elections in the country.

Asaba—FOLLOWING a stern warning from the Delta State Government, threatening to clampdown on traditional healers in the state laying false claim for cure of the dreaded Ebola Virus Disease, EVD, some native healers, insisted that they were wrongly attacked.

Former Vice President, Dr. Alex Ekwueme, weekend, submitted that it would be illogical to refer the report of the just-concluded national conference to the National Assembly for clause by clause consideration.

Executive Secretary, National Commission for Nomadic Education, Professor Rashid Aderinoye, yesterday revealed that over four million school-age children of nomads have no access to education in Nigeria.

Organised Labour has raised alarm that Nigeria is losing over N75 billion annually to smuggling of textile materials into the country.

WE have a very poor quality democracy. Our constitutional order is in shambles, which is why within fifteen years we have already held two constitutional conferences to try and correct the makeshift 1999 constitution hurried assembled by the departing regime of General Abdulsalami Abubakar.

DEMOCRACY, by Jeffersonian, Lincolnian and Grecian normative standard, is the political doctrine that recognises the institutionalisation of liberal structures of governance that enfranchises and gives the people the rights to elect and remove their leaders. It concretizes the basis of their participation in the decision–making process and enhances their freedoms. Indeed, a government of the people, by the people for the people.