Despite the outcry of persistent downturn trend in the nation’s stock market, the Securities and Exchange Commission, SE C said that the deadline for recapitalisation of capital market operators remains September 30, 2015. Director General of the commission, Mr. Mounir Gwarzo, who confided in Vanguard after the second quarter Capital Market Committee, CMC meeting in Laos said “September 30, 2015 is sacrosanct and every operator is expected to meet the minimum capital requirement.

AN international environmentalist and agriculturist, Dr Vandana Shiva, has raised alarm over the proposed introduction of Genetically Modified Organisms, GMOs, in Nigeria and other African countries, describing it as suicidal. Speaking at a press briefing in Abuja organised by Health of Mother Earth Foundation, HOMEF, Shiva said that Monsanto and other food corporations from the West were out in Africa to make huge profits and enslave African farmers at the expense of their well-being.

Cashew nut yields can be boosted by as much as 78% with weaver ants only, and 151% with ants and GF-120 bait sprays, when treatments incorporating the African weaver ant (Oecophylla longinoda) are employed against Béninois insect cashew pests. The researchers carried out their two-year study on a cashew orchard in the Parakou area of Bénin. First they divided the cashew trees into three blocks. Each block was then divided into four treatments, each with 72 trees.

The Managing Director of Noah’s Ark, Lanre Adisa made this suggestion at the 42nd Annual General Meeting of AAAN in Oshogbo, Osun state capital, on the topic, Nigeria Advertising: What next?, where said the ad industry reform embarked upon by APCON in 2013 was a good step taken, but argued that the 25 percent foreign stake for foreign agencies was minimal, thus advocated for 49 percent.

ABIA State Commissioner of Police, Habila Joshak, said, yesterday, that armed robbers and child traffickers have relocated from the state as the police have made their businesses, unprofitable.