Akure—FIFTEEN persons, including four policemen, were feared killed during a bank robbery in Ikare area of Ondo State, yesterday.

As the management of the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) presents the score card of the stock market for 2014 today, data obtained from the exchange had shown that five top stocbroking firms accounted for 51 percent equity transactions valued N1.362 trillion during the period.

There is need to adequately master “SMALL DATA” design, structures, standards and functions, if we want to effectively handle and deliver sustainably the challenges of Big Data. Currently, our national Database structures are perceived to be weak and venerable! The hype in and around the concept and acclaimed deliverables of Big Data is so overwhelmingly tempting to the extent that it currently blinds developing countries and economics on how to match forward with their plans for engaging the 21st century Information Technology Ecosystem.

LAGOS—Few hours after the combined emergency team put out the blazing fire at Balogun Market, Lagos State, which razed 10 buildings, 100 shops and makeshift structures within the axis, traders have continued to count their

Abuja residents have decried the ban of unpainted taxis operating within the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, by the Transport Secretariat.
Mr Tochukwu Ikuazum, a public servant, said, yesterday, that workers would be stranded after close of work without unpainted taxis.

English Premier League champions Manchester City have informed Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) they will not release Kelechi Iheanacho and Chidiebere Nwakali for the 2015 African Youth Championship in March in Senegal.

Akure—ONDO State governor, Dr. Olusegun Mimiko yesterday explained that the Presidential campaign of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, scheduled to hold in the state yesterday was postponed due to official engagement by President Goodluck Jonathan.

OGHARA—BOLSTERED by a massive crowd that thronged Oghara, Ethiope Local Government Area, Delta State, yesterday, for the flag-off of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, governorship campaign for next month’s elections, the governorship standard bearer, Senator Ifeanyi Okowa, has said that his party will win the state with a landslide.

Mobile phone makers, Tecno Mobile has said that maintaining brand development, and unleashing high quality products that are affordable has in no small way helped it to meet the growing needs of African market.

It is astonishing how a Chemical Engineer with a ten-year oil and gas career experience as a process engineer and project manager suddenly became an advocate for organic baby food. Mrs Debo Adebayo, a UK Chartered Engineer and Member of the Institute of Chemical Engineers had worked with companies like Foster Wheeler, KBR a subsidiary of Halliburton and Amec Oil and Gas with assignments in Azerbaijan, Nigeria, Libya and the UK; before the urge for organic food processing engulfed her.

ABUJA—Former Secretary-General of the United Nations, UN, and Chairman of the Global Commission on Elections, Democracy and Security, Mr. Kofi Annan, yesterday, urged Nigerians not to resort to violence should their choice candidates fail to win at the forthcoming general elections.

Two serving commissioners in Ebonyi State and the state Accountant General were yesterday quizzed by operatives of the Economic and Financial CrimesCommission, EFCC, for alleged graft.

But ahead of the general elections, one question agitating the minds of critical observers is – will the PDP maintain its winning streak in Enugu? While many with the party have high hopes of pending victory, others in the opposition camp think otherwise.

Technology focused Innovation Hub project, SmartCity is targeting no fewer than 50,000 direct jobs in the country in its first five years. This is also as it promises to keep galvanizing economic diversification and moving Nigeria towards a knowledge-based economy.

“I don’t have any personal grievance against Governor Godswill Akpabio. Inasmuch as we have parted ways on ideological reasons, I am not going to attack him as…”—Bishop Samuel Akpan