EXECUTIVE Director of Centre for the Vulnerable and the Underprivileged, CENTREP, in Delta State, Mr. Oghenejabor Ikimi, has advised President Muhammadu Buhari to cut down the cost of governance and deregulate the downstream oil sector of the economy within his first 100 days in office.

Governor Ben Ayade of Cross River State has scrapped the weekly Executive Council meeting, where the governor and his deputy meet with commissioners, special advisers and permanent secretaries to review the activities of government in the state.

In a bid to enhance connectivity options for its corporate customers, telecommunications service provider, Airtel Nigeria, has launched a secure Multiprotocol Label Switching, MPLS, network.

Two out of 18 publicly traded worldwide reinsurers performed worse first quarter of 2015 than the overallmarket, according to A.M. Best, an international rating agency in its special report on reinsurance subsector. In the report the agency said. “In fact, the group of all followed public company’s return during 1Q15 was an average share price increase of 8.3 per cent versus the market total return of 0.4% for the same time period.”

Ever since MTN Nigeria began its annual Corporate Social Responsibility programme, Y’ello 21 days of care in 2007, the company’s helping hands have been extended to improving the health sector, preserving the environment, helping the less privileged, and a host of other activities. For MTN Nigeria however, almost no other sector has received as much attention from this programme as the education sector. It was not a surprise therefore, that when the 2015 edition was launched at the MTN golden plaza in Lagos on Monday, the focus was again on education.