Many eye clinics that fell below the ethics and standards, guiding the practice of eye care in the country, have been closed down in Owerri, Orlu, Mbaise and Okigwe, by the Optometrists and Dispensing Opticians Registration Board of Nigeria, ORDOBN.

Lifestyle living connoisseur, Haven Homes, a Lagos-based real estate development firm, has delivered its 2016 home designs much to the expectations of its teeming subscribers, according to the company’s Assistant General Manager, Ms Ufuoma Ukueku.

NIGERIA Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, NUPENG, and its Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria, PENGASSAN counterpart, have said moves to unbundle Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, into 30 companies without following due process by the Federal government, is illegal.

Hitches such as server failure, not keeping to time, incorrect questions, power failure and candidates not printing out the right e-registration slips containing their centre/registration numbers, threatened to mar this year’s edition of the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations, UTME, turning what was supposed to be a two-hour, 45 minutes exam to a four-hour exam.

Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State, yesterday said his administration had saved over N2.6 billion from ghost workers syndicate at the state and local government levels.

THE Independent Corrupt Practices Commission, ICPC and the office of the Head of Service of the Federation, may have begun investigations into alleged fraudulent falsification of documents and subsequent elongation of service by the Director of Architectural Services in the Federal Ministry of Power, Works & Housing, Mr. Sani Gidado, an architect.

Control Risks Services West Africa has revealed that stocks quoted on the Nigerian stock market has fallen by 16 per cent since December 2015, even as the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN says that weakening the naira would raise inflation, already close to 10 per cent.

As South African President, Mr. Jacob Zuma, visits Nigeria today, Foreign Affairs Minister, Mr. Geoffrey Onyema, has said the visit was not meant to resolve any outstanding diplomatic row between the two countries.

A former member of the National Assembly in the Second Republic and chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Edo State, Mr. Sunny Uyigue, has described the statement credited to Senator Dino Melaye on the floor of the Senate on Governor Adams Oshiomhole’ s marriage to a foreign wife as unfortunate and an abuse of parliamentary privileges.

A member of the House of Representatives, Mr Ehiozuwa Agbonayinma, has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to sack the Minister of Budget and Planning, over what he described as the numerous errors in the 2016 budget.

THE Chief Regulatory Officer, NAFDAC, Abia office, Mr Udoekpo Ekpo has warned bakers in Aba, Abia State to desist from fumigating their bakeries with quacks or risk sanctions.

COACH Samson Siasia believes that the experience of players like Victor Moses and John Obi Mikel will count, when the Super Eagles clash with the Pharaohs of Egypt in the Africa Cup of Nations qualification tie home and away later in the month.

Meanwhile, corroborating Dangote’s position on the need for policy articulation on economic diversification, Managing Director/Chief Executive, Access Bank Plc, Mr. Herbert Wigwe, and Managing Director/Chief Executive Oando Plc, Mr. Adewale Tinubu, emphasised the need for reforms in the foreign exchange market and in the financing of the oil industry.

LAGOS — Zinox Technologies Limited, weekend, denied reports that the company was one of the companies that received part of the funds under investigation at the Nigerian Broadcasting Commission, NBC.

The National Executive Committee, NEC, of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, yesterday, resolved to bring the term of the Ali Modu Sheriff-led executive of the party to an end on May 21.