Mr Yomi Ogunsola, the Senior Special Assistant to Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed of Kwara State on Investment, Promotion and Strategy, said yesterday that the Ilorin metropolis water reticulation project will cost N7.2 billion.

JUDGES, Senior Advocates of Nigeria and lawyers assembled in Ibadan yesterday to pay their last respects to the late Chief Judge of Oyo State, Justice Mashood Olayiwola Adio who died last week.

THE Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, secretaries in 20 wards of Igbo-Eze North Local Government Area of Enugu State have expressed their support for Governor Sullivan Chime of Enugu State for endorsing Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi, as his successor in 2015.

GOVERNOR Chibuike Amaechi of Rivers State, recently, swore- in Caretaker Committees to administer 22 of the 23 local government areas in the state. The chairman and members are expected to run a three- month tenure like the former committees they replaced.

Nigeria lost about $1.705 billion (N272.8 billion) to gas flaring, as oil and gas firms operating in the country flared 409.311 billion Standard Cubic Feet, SCF, of gas between January and December 2013.

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THE multi-million Onitsha shopping mall being promoted by Messrs African Capital Alliance, a private equity investment company in collaboration with the Anambra State Government, has attained a 64 percent completion level and would be ready for commissioning by mid 2015. The project is anchored by Shoprite, the popular South African retail company.

President of Nigeria Olympic Committee, NOC, Engr Sani M. Ndanusa has congratulated newly elected President of the Nigeria Football Federation, Melvin Amaju Pinnick. Also, President General(Worldwide) of the Nigeria Football Supporters Club Dr Rafiu Ladipo has congratulated the Delta State Sports Commission Chairman.

President of Pentathlon Federation, Dr Jonathan Nnaji has expressed hope that with the coming of Pentathlon in the Nigerian sporting scene, Team Nigeria would have an edge in adding more medals at international competitions.

Mr Peter Jack, the Director-General of National Information Technology Development Agency, NITDA, says the agency will send 80 Nigerian students to different parts of the world for Post Graduate Studies.

THE reconstituted board of the Architects Registration Council of Nigeria, ARCON, was last week inaugurated in Abuja by the Minister of Lands, Housing and Urban Development, Mrs Akon Eyakenyi who charged the members to check the incursion of quacks into the profession.

No fewer than 400 fish farmers have benefited from the Aquaculture Value Chain initiative of the Federal Government’s Growth Enhancement Support scheme (GES) in Bauchi.

WITH peremptory magistracy and awesome gallantry our founding fathers fought for the political independence of our glorious country, Nigeria. They were like the Roman hero Horatius, who fought with Spartan intrepidity in defending Rome from the Etruscan invaders. Horatius asked like our founding fathers: “And how can a man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his gods”?

Relief has come the way of about 116, 000 internally displaced persons in Yobe State with the approval of the distribution of items worth N500 million by President Goodluck Jonathan in continuation of humanitarian assistance to victims of insurgency in the North East part of the country. The relief was channelled through the Presidential Committee on Relief Procurement and Distribution.

A governorship aspirant of the All Progressive Grand Alliance, APGA, in Ebonyi State, Senator Anthony Agbo, has boasted that APGA would win Ebonyi in the 2015 general election.