Niger Delta ex-militant leaders have cautioned President Muhammadu Buhari to be wary of persons campaigning for the scrapping of the amnesty programme granted Niger Delta ex-agitators, accusing them of being wolves in sheep’s clothing whose only ambition is to instigate chaos in the region.

THE first female Speaker of the Ondo State House of Assembly, Ms Jumoke Akindele was Monday returned unopposed as the 8th Assembly was inaugurated.

The African Organisation for Standardisation, ARSO and the Standards Organisation of Nigeria, SON, yesterday disclosed that products imported from countries outside Africa constitute over 80 per cent of substandard goods found in markets in Nigeria and other parts of Africa.

Immediate past Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Dr. Akinwumi Adesina, who was, last week, elected as the president-elect of Africa Development Bank, AfDB, has commended Nigeria and other African countries for standing by him in the challenging period before and during the elections.

The contest for leadership positions in the yet to be inaugurated 8th National Assembly has become enmeshed in the jostling for ascendancy by prospective aspirants in the All Progressives Congress, APC, for the 2019 presidential ticket of the party.

For his magnanimity and largeness of heart in naming the Akwa Ibom International Stadium after his predecessor in office, Governor Emmanuel Udom of Akwa Ibom State has received the commendation of renowned sports administrator, Paul Bassey.

Red Star Express Plc has led the cream of top ten gainers in the Main Board sector of the Nigerian Stock Exchange, NSE last week, rising by 41.5 per cent or N1.57 to close at N5.35 per share last Friday from N3.78 per share penultimate week. The company last year paid a dividend of N206 million to its shareholders for the financial year ended March31, 2014.

African business leaders including thirty Chief Executive Officers from Nigeria will gather in Abuja next week for the 2015 Chief Executive Officer’s round table organized by the Africa ICT Alliance, (AfICTA) with the theme “Mobilizing African Business Leaders for the future of the Internet”

Although the next big generation of mobile networking, known as 5G, is not expected to be commercially available until 2020, Ericsson has already demonstrated its technology feat with the recent live 5G test networks in Sweden and the United States of America, saying that it would boost the future of wireless technology.
Accordingly, Ericsson’s latest 5G technology breakthrough provides a way to deliver drop-free, higher capacity mobile connections for both people and things, while making the most of available spectrum.

Brazil coach Rogerio Micale has explained that a change of tactics at half-time led to his side’s 4-2 victory over Nigeria in a Group E New Zealand 2015 U-20 World Cup clash on Monday.

Governor Udom Emmanuel of Akwa Ibom State has appointed Mr Etekamba Umoren, Chief of Staff to the immediate past governor, as the Secretary to the State Government, SSG and Pastor Bassey Umoh, former Auditor General of Local Government as Permanent Secretary, Governor’s Office.

Delta leaders have described the Delta State House of Assembly Majority Leader, Chief Monday Igbuya as a highly focused person, noting that he is humble, dynamic and a natural successor to the out-going Speaker, Mr Peter Onwusanye.

Coach Manu Garba has said his team will fight back into contention in the U20 World Cup after they fell 4-2 to five-time winners Brazil in an opening group game on Monday.

Plateau State Governor, Simon Lalong, Monday, appointed the first set of his aides with the former Minority Leader, in the state House of Assembly, Mr. Rufus Bature, becoming the Secretary to the State Government, SSG.

Embattled former governor of Adamawa State, Admiral Murtala Nyako, was Monday, quizzed for most of the day over allegation of money laundering running into about N15 billion