“The new Wildtrak takes the Ford Ranger to the next level with an aggressive exterior, a premium, sporty, interior, the latest Driver Assist Technologies and capabilities that ensure it’s up for any adventure,” said Trevor Worthington, vice president, Product Development, Ford Asia Pacific. “Building on the bolder, smarter and more refined new Ranger, the new Wildtrak is a perfect fit for customers who want to combine genuine 4×4 capability with stand-out styling and premium features.”

WORRIED by the rising cases of road traffic crashes involving petroleum tankers in parts of the country, the Corps Marshal of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Boboye Oyeyemi has directed strict enforcement of safety standards on petroleum tankers, while urging the operators to comply with the provisions of Road Transport Safety Standardisation Scheme (RTSSS).

“The auto policy had provided a strong incentive to re-open industrial production for Peugeot vehicles after many years of in-activity, and attract the full support of Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) partners, Automobile Peugeot (AP) France. This partnership has created a new window of opportunity for employment and re-engagement of dis-engaged workers and also resuscitate the businesses of the largely moribund local component manufacturers”

“I do not have stock with the BGL Group but as a shareholder I think suspending them will serve as a deterrent and final warning to them. When their clients do not give them mandate to sell and they sell, it shows laxity and insincere habit on their part. A big company like BGL who should serve as example to others is involved in such a shameful act.

“The company would also focus on a commercial model ensuring distributor margin and investment aligned to support growth. We must as a mater priority continue to invest in talent to build demand generation and efficiency, deepen our demand planning capability and route to market expertise.”

“I tend to a little bit disagree that Nigerians lack a maintenance culture, the reasons why we are unable to maintain our infrastructure, not even from government alone but even private is because from the word go, we get it all wrong. The kind of maintenance we know in Nigeria is breakdown maintenance, until it fails you don’t care whether it needs service or not,

THE Johnson Ayomike family of Warri, Delta State, has acquired from a museum in the United Kingdom, UK, some historic photographs taken away by colonialists from the Nanna Living Museum, Koko, Warri North Local Government Area of the state.

Despite Governor Okezie Ikpeazu’s directive to revenue agents to stop harassing residents and motorists in Abia State, the agents in Aba have continued pasting demand notices, warning residents to comply or be dealt with.

THREATENED by the usurping of some of its statutory functions, the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission, NERC, has described the establishment of the Electricity Management Services Authority, NEMSA, as an unhealthy rivalry, and unsuitable for the country’s fledging power market.

I have always believed that the government has a responsibility to educate its citizens and this, apart from free tuition includes; provision of standard equipment to facilitate training and a good remuneration for teaching staff. However, most often than not, the resources available are not enough to meet this obligation and that is where the responsibility of the citizenry comes in.

The Federal Commissioner representing Anambra State in the Public Complaints Commission, PCC, Dr. Angela Mbah, has vowed to beef up efforts to ensure sustained jail delivery services and accelerated redress for administrative injustice in her state.

The Taraba State Police Command Sunday confirmed an armed robbery attack on the residence of Alhaji Adamu Sadiq, the State Correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria, NAN.

Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry, LCCI, has urged the state Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode, to look critically at the various components of the cost of doing business in Lagos state, with a view to bringing down this cost. The President of LCCI, Alhaji Remi Bello, who made the call, said the state offers tremendous opportunities for business, but a great deal still needs to be done to bring down the cost of doing business in the state in order to allow the private sector to support the government in the delivery of its mandate especially in the area of job creation and revenue generation.

“To this end, the NMDC has already signed a Memorandum of Understanding, MoU, with the Centre for Automotive Design based in Zaria. We will be producing some steel parts for them such as crane shaft, crankshaft, connecting rods, block engines, brake drums, and wheels. These will all come to fruition very soon. “We will be able to produce corrugated roofing sheets which are made from Electroplated Zinc and other items,”

The All Progressives Congress, APC, in Enugu-North senatorial district, has appealed to other zones in the state to support the nomination of Okey Ezea, governorship candidate of the party in the April 11 election, for ministerial appointment.