MUSLIM women have been urged to strike a balance between their home and their career so as to prevent chaos and disharmony in all their endeavours. This was the thrust of the three days’ workshop held by the Lajna Imaillah (women servant of Allah), Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at, Nigeria, at Ojokoro, Lagos, last weekend. The annual workshop which had over 600 female members of the Islamic organization throughout the federation in attendance highlighted the roles Muslim women have to play in the contemporary world. The workshop did justice to various issues affecting women and how the problem can be tackled.

Election petition tribunal, sitting in Osogbo, Osun State capital, has received 16 petitions in connection with March 28 and April 11 National and State Assembly elections in the state.

Some members of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Rivers State, yesterday continued their protest against the primaries of the party held on Monday ahead of the May 23 local government polls, describing the exercise as a sham.

Maintaining the perfect work-life balance is never easy for the modern day woman. Aside from working 9 hours a day, she has to worry about cooking for her family. Though the arrival of microwave ovens has greatly simplified the cooking process, the gourmet taste of the food has had to be sacrificed along the way. This problem led to the innovation of the next generation of Lightwave cookers, one of which is the LG Lightwave Microwave Oven by global leading Home Appliances manufacturer, LG Electronics.

Now is the time to invest in Nigeria’s gas sub-sector, to ameliorate the effect of the drop in crude oil prices, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, told foreign investors.

Despite the current gas price of $2.50 per thousand British Thermal Unit, Btu, stakeholders have identified pricing, funding and infrastructure as the core impediments to appropriate gas development in Nigeria.

AGAINST the erroneous view that shariah (the Islamic law), is difficult simply because Muslims refused to changed it under the guise of constitutional review in line with divine commandments. Yet there is abundance of evidence to proof that the law given to the followers of Prophets of Allah-(AS), before Prophet Muhammad (SAW) was difficult than the one given to this nation.

AN Itsekiri youth leader in Delta State, Mr Benson Erewa, has called on oil and gas producing ethnic nationalities in the state to support the exceptional zeal of Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan, to guarantee direct payment of 13 per cent allocation to them through the restructuring of the Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission, DESOPADEC.

Former Nigeria track and field stars,Henry Amike,Tony Osheku and Yusuf Ali have hailed Mike Itemuagbor and his company,Pamodzi Sports Marketing for putting Nigeria among the list of countries the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) has counted worthy of hosting a world class road race in 2015.

Nigeria Football Federation is hoping to have the Super Falcons play international friendlies against New Zealand and Canada, hosts of the FIFA 2015 Women World Cup starting in June.