The Standard Organisation of Nigeria, SON, is set to commence blacklisting of both local and foreign companies involved in the manufacturing and importing of substandard goods into the country.

The Manufacturers Association of Nigeria, MAN, has expressed its desire to grow Nigerian manufacturing sector by 5 percent per annum within the next four years.

Coalition of Niger Delta Indigenous Community Youth Leaders, CNDICYL, a youth group in the Niger Delta region, has appealed to the Federal Government to respect and abide by the agreements contained in the Niger Delta Amnesty Programme.

STRIKING workers of Kogi State have called off their six weeks old strike that started at the twilight of former Governor Idris Wada’s administration, over unpaid salaries and other benefits.

The Chairman, Brass Liquefied Natural Gas, LNG, Limited, Dr. Jackson Gaius-Obaseki, has expressed confidence that the Final Investment Decision, FID, for the project would be taken in the next couple of months.

With one month and two weeks left to settle with the Nigerian authorities over the $3.9 billion fine imposed by the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, for failing to disconnect unregistered users, MTN Group has hired the former Attorney-General of the United States of America, Eric Holder, to help challenge the propriety of the fine.

Obviously in response to the lingering fuel crisis and the loud complaints by suffering consumers, the management of the Department of Petroleum Resources, DPR, may have decided that enough was enough. And to demonstrate its feeling in this regard, it has warned all petroleum products marketers that it would not hesitate to commensurately sanction those who indulge in varying despicable acts in the procurement and distribution of petroleum products.

OGHARA—Delta State government has released some of the 22 contacts linked to the index case of Lassa Fever in the state after completing the 21-day surveillance programme without showing any sign of infection.

lagos—A former Minister of Works, Senator Adeseye Ogunlewe and chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Lagos, Capt. Tunji Shelle (retd) yesterday, warned that any plan to impose candidates for the ward and local government congresses of the party, would be resisted.

The Supreme Court, yesterday, upheld the outcome of the April 11, 2015, governorship elections that brought Governors Udom Emmanuel and Okezie Ikpeazu of Akwa Ibom and Abia states respectively to power.

Technical committee chairman of the Nigeria Football Federation, Chris Green has insisted that coach Sunday Oliseh acted unprofessionally, when he decided to criticise the NFF over the Super Eagles failed mission at the African Nations Championship (CHAN) in Rwanda.

WHEN the journey to Maiduguri came on stream last week, I was all over the place with mixed feelings. I was there last 25 years ago. I wanted to see what had become of it in this Boko Haram era. There were two other things I wanted to see. The first was life inside an Internally-Displaced Persons’ (IDPs’) camp. The second was to make a personal assessment of where we really are with regard to the war on terror, beyond the banal propaganda pabulum that Buhari’s Information Minister, Lai Mohammed, and the military, regularly dish out.

The Joint Task Force, JTF, in the Niger Delta, codenamed Operation Pulo Shield, yesterday, said it has arrested some suspects in connection with the recent multiple attacks and bombing of crude pipelines and installations in the region.

Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo yesterday said the Federal Government would not spare anyone indicted for corruption and other corrupt practices.

FROM the lips of some experts and eminent Nigerians, yesterday, it was hard knocks for the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, SAN, over his comments that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, had recovered more than $2 trillion, about N400 trillion, looted from the national treasury in the last 12 years.