NATIONAL Pension Commission, PenCom, yesterday in Lagos, said the nation’s total pension asset, had risen above N4.5 trillion.

Nigerian junior tennis players are wary of the bleak future that awaits them when they take the plunge into the professional circuit, which has not been rosy for their predecessors.

In effort to provide a sustainable national framework for the care of older persons in the country, federal government has announced that it will soon launch a National Policy on Ageing in the country. The Minister of Women Affairs and Social Development, Hajiya Zainab Maina announced this on Tuesday at the opening of a 2-Day National Summit on Ageing and Older Persons, organized by her ministry in collaboration with Dave Omokaro Foundation and other stakeholders, to mark this year’s International Day of Older Persons in Abuja.

In commemoration of the new Islamic year, Hijrah 1436 AH, the National Council of Muslim Youth Organizations, NACOMYO, has charged the Muslims to rededicate themselves to the cause of Islam by being law abiding and live peacefully with other Nigerians.

IN October, the Gulf International Technology Exhibition held in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates, from October 12-16, with Nigeria as the official Country Partner of the event, reputed to be the biggest technology show in the MEASA (Miidle East, Africa and South Asia) region. The National Information Technology Development Agency, NITDA, actualized Nigeria’s status as official country partner at the event.

THE Federal Government is poised to replicate the success story of SME clusters in 9,555 wards in the country.

First son of first President of Nigeria, Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe, Chief Chukwuma Bamidele Azikiwe, yesterday, in his Onisi Onira residence, urged Ndigbo to use the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, to negotiate and bargain with the two leading political parties; Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and All Progressives Congress, APC, to better the lots of the people of the south-east.

FEDERAL Government had released over 1 million cocoa seedlings to 400, 000 farmers of the cash crop across the cocoa geo-ecological zones in the country to boost the production and export of the commodity.

Forty-eight hours after he publicly declared his intention to contest for Presidency on the platform of All Progressives Congress, APC, in 2015, Kano State governor, Dr. Rabiu Kwankwaso, has purchased the party’s Expression of Interest and Presidential Nomination forms for N27.5 million.

Former executive vice-chairman of the Nigerian Communications Commission, Chief Ernest Ndukwe, one of the nation’s most respected telecom technocrats has thrown his hat into the political ring.