The Management of a leading road transport company,Peace Mass Transit,PMT,weekend,reaffirmed is resolves on installation of Speed Limiters in all its fleet to reduce the rate of auto crashes even as it commissioned its Ilorin,Kwara State capital terminal situated opposite ADP Sango Area,to ease difficulties commuters traveling to various parts of the country are bedeviled with.

A former Deputy Minority Leader of the House of Representatives and governorship aspirant in the forthcoming gubernatorial election in Edo State, Mr. Emmanuel Arigbe-Osula, has dismissed allegations that Governor Adams Oshiomhole was foisting a successor on the party.

The Nigeria U-20 squad on Sunday flew into Calabar, capital of Cross River State as the football –loving State returns to the front burner of international football action.

The Ijaw Youth Council, IYC, worldwide has hailed the take off of the implementation of the United Nations Environmental, UNEP, report on the clean up of Ogoni land and urged Federal Government to extend the gesture to the entire Niger Delta region.

Members of the House of Representatives Committee on Tertiary Education and Services, have appealed to the Federal Government to rescind its sack of the Vice Chancellor of National Open University of Nigeria, NOUN, Professor Vincent Tenebe.

The Minister for State, Aviation, Sen. Hadi Abubakar Sirika has called on African countries to encourage Air Transport Connectivity among each other in order to enhance the growth of civil aviation in the continent. This is just as the International Air Transport Association,IATA, called on African governments to prioritize the development of aviation nationally and at a pan-Africa level to boost economic growth and development.

The International Air Transport Association, IATA , has called on the Nigerian government to ease and facilitate the repatriation of funds by foreign airlines. It said this is in keeping with international agreements obliging countries to ensure airlines are able to repatriate their revenues.

IN a bid to block revenue leakages at the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, (NIMASA) the House of Representatives Committee on Maritime Safety, Education and Administration has summoned 1,319 companies to appear before it during a public hearing on operational deficiencies at the agency.

Barring any unforeseen circumstances, no fewer than five state governors and the Speaker, House of Representatives, Mr. Yakubu Dogara, are billed to be in Owerri today.

UKWAGBA community in Ohaukwu Local Government Area of Ebonyi State, weekend, boiled over the leadership tussle between some groups and the local government boss in the area.

The crisis of confidence rocking the leadership of the National Pensions Commission, PenCom, may have reached its apogee with petitions flooding the Presidency and office of the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice over alleged high-handedness of a top official of the commission. The official has been accused of disregarding court judgments thereby undermining the integrity of the judiciary.

EVERY May 25th is significant for Edwin Kiagbodo Clark because 89 years ago in 1927, Chief Fuludu Clark his father, scion of Ambakaderemo, gave birth to Kiagbodo, who was given “Edwin” by his teacher as was customary with missionary schools who found Christian names fanciful. Clark’s family branch extends to Itsekiri, Urhobo, Isoko and Ijaw; Edwin effectively harnessed these for leadership of the Niger–Delta.

AFTER one year of silence, Vice President Atiku Abubakar seized the opportunity of a book launch in Abuja last week to break his silence. He reviewed the state of the nation under President Muhammadu Buhari, which is what pretty much everyone else has done in the past one week.

We have a lot of new things happening at SON. What we have been doing is to try to communicate the benefits of standardisation which translates to quality for Nigerians. We have devised innovative ways of communicating to people to buy the culture of standardisation. The major mandates of SON has not changed- elaboration of standards and quality assurance, the regular inspections of factories and production lines of products; audit of companies and advising industries to improve on their products.

First City Monument Bank’s (FCMB) women staff have taken financial literary to children as part of its commitment to educating them on the importance of savings. The women, through FCMB across the country, hosted pupils from various schools, under the theme, ’Kids Banking Excursion Programme”, where they were exposed to the general dynamics of banking, financial literacy and how to cultivate savings habit from an early age.