ABOUT 99 filling stations in Lagos and Ogun states have been sealed for various market infractions and sanctioned accordingly for taking advantage of the current fuel supply shortages.

The technological revolution of the past 150 years has given people around the world easy access to everything from smartphones to life-saving medical devices. While one may not yet be aware of all the implications of our hyper-connected society, it is abundantly clear that the rapid growth in the capability and availability of smart technology is a net positive for everyone. However, despite the progress that has accompanied bringing futuristic technology to so many homes, the technological revolution has had a negative impact on the environment and emerging markets still lag far behind their developed peers.

Chief Executive Officer of e-commerce solution provider, Slimtrader, Femi Akinde has identified capacity building as a critical ingredient to unlocking the potential of e-commerce in Nigeria. Akinde who was speaking at the Africa Technology Summit in Ghana highlighted the need for employers to train people in order to achieve set business goals, while identifying talent acquisition as one of the major challenges confronting the sector.

National Bureau of Statistics, NBS, has recorded an explosion in the demand for data and statistical information both from international and local interests. Key data request indicators at the NBS show that in 2005, just under 50,000 reports were downloaded from the NBS website compared to over three million in 2014, just as requests for data by walk-in users which was 23 in 2005 rose to 1,817 in 2014.

Chairman of Nigerian Insurers Association, NIA, Mr. Godwin Wiggle has assured that the Association will continue to support the Chartered Insurance Institute of Nigeria, CIIN, to move the insurance industry forward. Wiggle made the assertion when the CIIN President, Lady Isioma Chukwuma paid a courtesy visit to the NIA in Lagos.

The question of why Nigeria has not been able to sustain generations of successful businesses has been addressed differently by experts, but former Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) Executive Chairman, Mrs. Ifueko Omoigui-Okauru, attributed it to poor visual ability. She cited Germany as example of country that has maintained fifth generation of SMEs, global and family businesses, in her keynote address at the 2015 WISCAR end of year graduation and 4th award presentation ceremony with theme: “Women Leading Change” in Lagos.

LAGOS— Archbishop of the Ecclesiastical Province of Lagos, Rev Ephraim Ademowo, has called on the Lagos state governor, Akinwunmi Ambode and the Chief justice of the state, Hon. Justice Olufunmilayo Atilade, to look into the cases of those awaiting trial.

THE courts of the Lagos Lawn Tennis Club will literally burn from today as 15th Governor’s Cup Lagos Tennis Championship serves off, with Nigerian players scrambling for precious world ranking points to boost their stunted careers.

The wife of Ebonyi State governor, Chief Rachael Umahi, yesterday, revealed the preparedness of the state government to grant automatic employment to 260 indigent widows from across the 13 local government areas.

Nigeria Electronic Fraud Forum (NeFF) has said that loss arising from electronic payment fraud has fallen by 63 percent. Chairman of the Forum and Director, Banking and Payment System Department, Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mr. Dipo Fatokun disclosed this at the annual Dinner of the Forum in Lagos.