“The main objective of the automotive policy is to bring back automotive assembly and to develop local content. This will enable us create employment, acquire technology for our industrialisation and reduce pressure on the country’s balance of payment position resulting from escalating vehicle import bill.

Honda has set a new Guinness world records title for ‘Lowest fuel consumption – all 24 contiguous EU countries (all cars),’ recording an average 2.82 liters per 100km (100.31mpg) over 13,498km (8,387 miles), in a 25 day drive across all 24 EU contiguous countries.

In an apparent bid to re-jig the nation’s security apparatus in the wave of growing insurgent attacks and suicide bombings, President Muhammadu Buhari, 45 days after assuming office, yesterday sacked all the service chiefs and appointed replacements whom he said were chosen on merit.

THE Petroleum Dealers and Owners Association in Ondo and Ekiti States and the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) and other regulatory authorities are on collision course over selling of petrol above the government-approved pump price.

URHOBO youths, under the auspices of Urhobo Youths Alliance for Equity and Justice, UYAFEJ, have urged Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State, to withdraw the Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission, DESOPADEC Amendment Bill until all ‘gazetted’ ethnic nationalities in the state have taken their turn to occupy the commission’s chairmanship position.

Abia State governor, Dr. Okezie Ikpeazu has said his administration will sponsor over 20,000 youths in agriculture to make them self -reliant

A Group under the aegis of Anambra Patriots in Lagos has urged the new administration of President Buhari to give Dr. Chris Ngige suitable positions due for the South East zone.

CRISIS is looming in the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Owan West Local Government Area of Edo State as the chairman of the party in the council, Mr. Monday Ogbeta, has been suspended from office by the council and Ward leaders over alleged anti-party activities.

Less than two years after five boys in the national U-16 team were suspended over age issues in Benin Republic in 2013, Nigeria has again fallen foul of the rules following the suspension of three Nigerian girls in the on-going 2015 FIBA Africa U-16 Women Championship in Antananarivo, Madagascar.

The Rivers state government has assured that the nations U-23 team would not be lacking in support when they take on their Congolese counterpart this weekend in Port Harcourt.