Amidst drive towards diversification of the economy away from the oil dependency, the maritime industry is working to account for over 30 per cent of the country’s gross domestic products, GDP.

THE Vice Chancellor, Rhema University, Prof. Ogbonnaya Onwudike has reiterated the institution’s commitment to raising youths with quality education and the fear of God in the face of swelling moral and educational decadence.

PAINED and incensed by the sudden and dramatic resignation of Super Eagles coach, Sunday Oliseh, the leadership of the Nigeria Football Federation yesterday said that it bore no grudges against the former Eagles captain, who it subtly accused of tricking the football-governing body into paying his salaries only to jump ship with less than a month to the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier with Egypt in Kaduna.

THE Nigeria Army in Bauchi State, yesterday said it arrested four suspected Boko Haram members, even as the state government alongside Bauchi Local Government Council, BLGC, donated 25 patrol vehicles, valued at N232, 968,750 to security operatives in state.

THE management of the Infrastructure Concession and Regulatory Commission, ICRC is presently working round the clock to complete the concessioning of the phase one and two of the Kirikiri lighter terminals in Lagos.

lagos—A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, yesterday, sentenced nine accused, charged with the murder of nine policemen in Arepo, Ogun State and pipeline vandalism to 12 years imprisonment each.

THE Irish ambassador to Nigeria, Sean Hoy, said the trade figure between Nigeria and Ireland has hit 270 million Euro. The envoy disclosed this when he visited the Nigerian Minister of Science and Technology, Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu in Abuja.

ABUJA—The Federal Government has expressed commitment to repatriating over 60, 000 insurgency-displaced Nigerians who are presently taking refuge at the Minawao camp, Maruoa in the far North Region of Cameroun.

LAGOS—The Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, yesterday, confirmed that the Federal Government received N50 billion from MTN Nigeria towards the settlement of the N780 billion fine imposed on the telecoms firm.

Participants at a one-day stakeholders’ workshop on phase down on dental amalgam use in Lagos state with the theme “Towards Mercury-Free Dentistry in Nigeria” organised by Sustainable Research and Action for Environmental Development (SRADev), have called for coordinated collaborative efforts by stakeholders in order to achieve the desired phase down of the harmful substance.