National Orientation Agency, NOA, yesterday honoured the airport cleaner, Miss Josephine Agwu who returned N12miilion that was forgotten by a passenger with the Citizens Responsibility Recognition award at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, MMIA, Lagos.

The Customs Area Controller, Seme Area Command of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Comptroller Ndalati Mohammed, has affirmed that the Command recorded huge increase in its revenue collection in the first quarter of 2015, because its anti-smuggling message and resistance to smuggling activities was paying-off.

ABUJA — THE Rice Processors Association of Nigeria, RIPAN, at the weekend backed the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Dr. Akinwumi Adesina as the next president of African Development Bank, AfDB. Chairman, RIPAN, Muhammed Abubakar, disclosed this in Abuja while he while speaking with journalists, where he said the performance of the Minister in the agricultural sector and his track record at various international organisations makes him the preferred candidate for the job.

The mother is just one of the two biological players in the procreation arena but is indisputably the closer parent to every child. This bond which starts at birth, through weaning and beyond is so strong that it exists well into the child’s adulthood. This makes the term, mother, carry a touchy and emotional tug anytime it is mentioned. It has come to be synonymous with affection, care and love. Little wonder the world had designated March 15 every year to the celebration of mothers and what they have come to represent.

One of Nigeria’s leading academics in Europe, Professor Azubuike Sonny Nwankwo, has been appointed Academy Provost of the Nigerian Defence Academy, NDA.