Shareholders of National Salt Company of Nigeria, NASCON Plc have commended the Board of Directors for declaring N1.32 billion dividend for the financial year 2014 , just as they advised its Board of Directors to strengthen the research and development unit of the organization in order to achieve optimal result and operation.

The Nigeria Export Promotion Council, NEPC has said it is considering an investment policy that will give incentives to prospective foreign investors through a package in its proposed investment policy. Chief Executive Officer, NEPC, Mr. Segun Awolowo stated this while speaking at a seminar to flag off the first Iran solo exhibition in Lagos.

The Federal Government has called on Nigeria Association of Chambers of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture, NACCIMA, to come up with blueprints that can aid the government to stop food imports into the country. President Muhammadu Buhari made the request during the 55th annual conference of NACCIMA with the theme ‘Policy Consistency in Agricultural Value Chain: A key to Social Economic Development.’ It took place in Calabar, Cross River State.

London is projected to welcome 18.82 million international visitors in 2015 putting the capital ahead of Bangkok in the Mastercard’s annual destinations cities index. It’s the second year running that London will be topping the Global Destinations Cities Index, which provides an in-depth ranking of the 132 most travelled cities from around the world.

THERE seems to be no end to the crisis rocking the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Lagos State.

But certain developments within the nation’s Muslim community in the last three decades show a clear gulf indicating that the religious leaders have apparent irreconciliable views on certain fundamental matters concerning Islam. In 1981, the Maitatsine uprising, reportedly traced to religious extremism, virtually overran Kano and some other parts of the north while disagreements relating to the adoption of the Muslim Shariah legal system resulted in bloodbath in Kaduna in 2000.

The need for a change in our society, cannot be overemphasized. That is why the feeling and expectations of Nigerians are high today as President Muhammad Buhari takes over the baton of leadership. Nigeria, as we all know is currently mired in great challenges. The challenge of indiscipline, the challenge of corruption, terrorism, kidnapping and other form of insecurity; of favoritism, of ostentatiousness, of get-rich-quick of various kinds of impunity to mention a few.

AS part of efforts to enhance electricity in the nine member states of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, the commission has embarked on the distribution of transformers of various capacities to communities in the region.

Following the relocation of the Command and Control Cantre of the Army High Command to Maiduguri, Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant General KTJ Minimah has paid an operational and morale boosting visit to troops in the frontline fighting war against Boko Haram terrorists in Borno and Adamawa States.

Nigeria’s Under-23 team head coach Samson Siasia has said the Flying Eagles did not play to win against the European champions, Germany.

The leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP has warned the All Progressives Congress, APC and its Government against any attempt to intimidate or harass the Clerk of the National Assembly, Alhaji Salisu Maikasuwa and the National Assembly Service Commission for performing their statutory functions during the inauguration of the National Assembly.

President Muhammadu Buhari has pledged to offset the pledge of $100 million (about N21.5 billion) for the funding of the Multi-National Joint Task Force (MNJTF) as promised by the Nigerian government.

What is certain is that by next Friday we will be in the month of Ramadan. It is another opportunity for spiritual rebirth, rejuvenation and nearness to Allah. How are we preparing for that rare and unusual month? How do we want to make a difference in our ways of worship, our supplication, our charity, love and kindness to others? How do we want to make the best out this heavenly grace for spiritual cleansing?

Periscope, Twitter’s mobile app that allows users to stream live videos from their phones to the internet, recently released an iOS update that makes it easier for users to find videos from around the world. Among other new features, the app now includes an interactive world map that displays the locations of available live feeds.

More indications emerged yesterday at the Federal High Court, Ibadan, where some bankers from the Central Bank of Nigeria and commercial banks are standing trial over alleged fraud running into billions of naira as the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, told the court that the stolen money was more than the N8 billion being reported in the media.