A mining expert, Mr. Oluchi Nwoko, has expressed confidence in the capacity of the solid minerals sector to diversify the Nigerian economy if government demonstrates strong political will to harness its potential.

THE Federal Government has charged participants in the electricity market to imbibe best business practices in order to bequeath a well-established electricity market to the next generation.

With a different beat and an enhanced armoured technology against munitions attacks, Kia Motors Nigeria has created a niche in the super-luxury market with the introduction of the shatterproof, grenade resistant, opaque anti-blast armour, and protective coated reinforced bulletproof Kia Quoris for high-net-worth individuals and government officials.

The management of the Federal Science and Technical College, FSTC, Yaba, is demanding a public apology from Vanguard Media over a published editorial cartoon in which the school was portrayed to be too expensive for the average civil servants, owed several months salaries.

The Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, Commission is partnering with the National Automotive Design and Development Council (NADDC) with a view to evolving a framework for the establishment of a regional automotive policy in West Africa.

The Corps Marshal of the Federal Road Safety Corps, FRSC, Boboye Oyeyemi has charged staff, especially those responsible for processing the driver’s licences in the states, on improved service delivery, saying FRSC, cannot afford to fail Nigerians.

The Nigerian Association By Sebastine Obasi & Michael Ebohof Petroleum Explorationists, NAPE, said that incoherent policies on gas to power have hindered the much talked about gas development plan.

THE editorial in Vanguard Newspaper of Thursday September 17, at page 18, is a belated remark on the latest development of the salary issue in Osun State.
Though, even if it had come out before now, the contents therein of the editorial would still not be fitting to the present situation. Recently (precisely Wednesday, September 16, 2015), the state government commenced the payment of outstanding salaries and pensions from N34.989bn bailout loan received for the Federal Government for that particular purpose.

It will be considered unpatriotic on my part if I do not comment on the availability of a realistic Federal Government policy to bring sufficient and uninterrupted electric power supply to Nigeria. My employers, Africa Mutual Funds Corporation, had been studying and making presentations to the Federal Ministry of Power since 2010 on the feasibility of realising 17,100 megawatts, MW, power to Nigeria in 2014, and thereby increase this to about 50,000MW.

THE fact is that the Lagos Traffic Law has been defied since it was enacted. In spite of heavy investment in enforcement which led to the seizure of thousands of motorcycles, the recrudescent return of commercial motorcyclists to restricted routes had become a nightmare that the previous administration battled with minimal results, particularly in semi-urban […]