A chieftain of All Progressives Congress, APC, in Edo State, Mr Austin Emuan, has appealed to all governorship aspirants on the platform of the party for next years’ governorship election in the state, to see the state as one and regard themselves as members of the same family bound by a common patrimony.

ABUJA — The National Human Rights Commission, NHRC, has said it would henceforth prosecute hospitals and medical practitioners over any alleged unprofessional conduct. Consequently, the commission has implored Nigerians to report to it, cases of maltreatment or negligence by both private and public health care centres in the country.

Total expenditure at N6.1 trillion was over 40 per cent higher than 2015 figure of N4.4 trillion. Former president Goodluck Jonathan had reduced the budget for 2015 from N4.7 trillion after the oil price began a steady drop in the third quarter of 2014. The policy thrust of the 2016 budget included stimulating the economy and making it more competitive by focusing on infrastructural development; delivering inclusive growth; and prioritizing the welfare of Nigerians.

Jos—Goods and property worth over N80 million was lost Thursday when a late night inferno razed a Jos-based jelly-making factory, Bowlis Industries Nigeria Limited, situated at Rafin-Pa area of Jos North Local Government Area of Plateau state.

“This is yet another plot of the enemies of our country and democracy to divide, divert attention and distract the APC in its avowed commitment to secure the country, provide jobs for the mass of unemployed youths, build needed critical infrastructure, enthrone a regime of probity and accountability and pull the country out of the economic woods it has been consigned to by locust years of mismanagement.”

HELL was let loose at the Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministries, South-South Region 11, Town, Port Harcourt, Rivers State, yesterday, as aggrieved worshipers grounded the Sunday service over alleged mismanagement of church funds and unjustified sack of the pastor.

The major stories that shaped the industrial sector of the Nigerian economy in the outgoing year can be summed up in three parts. It was a year of mega merger between Lafarge group and Holcim; a year for strengthening of regional economies by Africa’s Richest Man, Aliko Dangote through his cement empire. The sector also witnessed policy shocks in the second half of the year which persists into the New Year. The devaluation of the naira and the suspension of Retail Dutch Auction System (RDAS/WDAS) by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) hit industries hard.

At the beginning of the year 2015, operators in the industry (especially the RORO port operations) were worried following the introduction of the auto policy two years before. The policy raised the import duty and levy payable on both new and fairly used vehicles to 70 percent from the previous 20 percent. The two major RORO terminal operators involved in vehicle importation business are Five Star Logistics Terminal and Ports and Terminal Multiservices Limited, PTML both of which are located at Tin Can Island Port Lagos.

For instance in June, 2015, Nigeria’s online hotel booking platform, Hotels.ng received about N240 million investment from Omidyar Network and Nigeria’s EchoVC Partners, thereby becoming the only e-commerce company in Nigeria with the most indigenous investment of up to 90 percent, having also received seed investment of $225, 000, about N36 million in 2013 from Lagos-based venture capital firm, Spark.ng.

The National Insurance Commission, NAICOM, also inaugurated fourteen insurance companies to operate the technical management board of the Energy and Allied Risks Insurance Pool of Nigeria (EAIPN). It is hoped that inauguration of the EAIPN will help the insurance industry retain capacity in oil & gas risks underwriting, curb capital flight and grow the local market in energy and allied risks underwriting.

With 2015 coming to an end in few days, it is imperative to take a glimpse at the events that shaped the year in the Integrated Marketing Communication, IMC, industry which have gone a long way in determining the course of the industry. As an election year, it slowed down activities in various sectors of the economy without exception of the IMC industry.

MYMOTO XE, a brand of RiverMews Limited, has entered into strategic partnership with Cornerstone Insurance, one of the leading insurance companies in the country to provide quality after sales services to owners of both used and brand new cars. Under the partnership, Mymoto will be providing a cover called Mymotoshield, a vehicle repair contract or extended warranty that covers the cost of parts and repair services related to a pre-agreed set of vehicle mechanical and electrical vehicle components that stop working in normal cause of use.

Veteran coach Kadiri Ikhana will not be in charge of Nigeria champions Enyimba when the 2015/2016 Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL) kicks off next month, officials have announced.

Osun State Government has recruited 300 Tax Marshals to enhance its Internally Generated Revenue IGR on a sustainable basis.

A cross section of the players in the Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL) has kicked against the January 31 kick-off for the 2015/2016, insisting issues concerning their welfare should first be addressed.