It is incredible how tomato, an essential in most Nigerian delicacies, has become quite a luxury—even more expensive than Premium Motor Spirits (popularly known as). With N145, what you get is about three small-sized pieces of tomatoes as each now sells for N50.

THE House of Representatives yesterday passed to second reading the Bill prescribing five years imprisonment without option of fine for any government officials involved in the embezzlement of constituency project funds.

Usually, they fill them with preservatives to prevent molding. The can itself isn’t 100% safe. There are three types of spoilage in food: spoilage within the food itself, spoilage within the food and its container, and then there is spoilage within the food and the environment. That is where the microbial contamination comes in. The cans themselves are usually coated in chemicals and the tin itself is made with aluminium. During transportation and handling, there are possibilities of the tins bending and when it bends, the interior coating will get compromised and the food will react directly with the aluminium or the iron.

So So master, King Oogbodo, says his latest song, Pankere, was inspired by how his mother used to beat him with pankere as a child.

THE Seme Border Customs Command of the Nigeria Customs Service, (NCS) has said that it is currently operating at 30 percent capacity due to the dilapidated infrastructure and unwholesome situation it finds itself.

The Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA, has commenced sea-time training for cadets abandoned for years after the completion of their theoretical studies in various maritime institution across the globe.

Mobile connectivity has fundamentally changed the fabric of society in Nigeria. Since the first mobile services were introduced in Nigeria in 2001, consumer demand has rocketed. Today the country has more than 83 million unique subscribers, accounting for 45 per cent of the population. As well as providing access to financial services, education and healthcare to millions of citizens, many for the first time, mobile has also played a critical role in reducing transportation, communication and transaction costs.

Genesis Studios, creators of the award winning television series, “So Wrong, So Wright and Tales of Eve”is partnering a London-based television content, Production and distribution company, FremantleMedia, to bring the popular game show, “The Price is Right” to Nigeria.

Relief materials worth over N2 million have been donated by Humanity First Canada in collaboration with its Nigeria counterpart to the Internally Displaced Persons, IDP’s affected by the Boko Haram insurgency in the North East of Nigeria.

George Mawadri has been appointed the new General Manager for the national carrier of the UAE,Etihad Airways, in Nigeria where he is expected to grow the airline’s relationships with its travel trade and corporate customers .