Worried by the growing menace of Examination malpractices in the nation’s education system, representatives of Poverty Alleviation for the Poor Initiative (PAFPI), a non-governmental organization, visited the Evwreni Girls Model Secondary School, Evwreni in Ughelli North of Delta State for an anti-corruption orientation/sensitization programme to prepare the young girls for future challenges.

In Nigeria, people buy dairy products produced in uncer-tain environments, from hawkers. To monitor the shelf-life of such products, the trio of Balogu, T., Gurusu, H. and Balogu of the Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida University’s Centre for Applied Sciences and Technology Research, developed computerized graphic interface software for shelf-life prediction of dairy products using microbial growth kinetic models.

IN line with global trends in the pursuit of sustainable preventive Occupational Safety and Health culture, the Federal Government through the Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige, has inaugurated the National Tripartite Technical Committee on the Development of the first National Occupational Safety and Health profile in Nigeria.

Unions affiliated to IndustriALL Global Union, in Nigeria are seeking engagement with Dangote Group over the unionsiation of its member companies in Nigeria. They however, commended the President of the group, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, for his drive towards industrialisation of African continent.

Nigeria Media-Nite out Award (NMNA) has finally unveiled nominees and categories for the 2016 awards, which is billed to hold on September 25, 2016, at Time Square Event Centre, Ikeja, Lagos.

ABUJA—President Muhammadu Buhari has appointed Ambassador Audu-Rafiu Enikanolaiye as Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the Federal Civil Service.

BENIN—COMMERCIAL activities were, yesterday, brought to a standstill in Benin City, Edo State, following the protest by local government workers in the state over the non-payment of their salary arrears by the state government even as one of the protesting workers was said to have allegedly died in the process.

The campaign organization of Godwin Obaseki has described as misleading and “tissues of lies,” the claim by the state chairman of the PDP, Chief Dan Orbih, that Godwin Obaseki has been collecting salaries from the Edo state government as chairman of the state Economic Team.

ASABA—DELTA Commissioner for Lands and Survey, Chief Dan Okenyi, yesterday, in Asaba, directed the Nigerian Navy and Logistics Command, located in Oghara, Ethiope West Local Government Area of the state, to stop further work on the disputed land between it and Oghara community.

Ologbo—The ex-militant group which on Monday gave the Federal Government a two-week ultimatum to enlist its members in the amnesty programme or risk attacks on government and oil companies’ facilites in the South-South region, yesterday, warned government and the international community not to take its threat for granted.

The Universal School of Aviation, Lagos has emerged West Africa’s most innovative aviation school of year 2016.

ABUJA—President-elect of the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, Mr. Abubakar Mahmoud, SAN, has vowed to use his two-year tenure to expose corrupt lawyers across the federation.

Project Coordinator and Chief Executive Officer of Nigeria Hospitality Project in Rio, Mohammed Abdullahi is thrilled with the theme song ‘Going for Gold’ written by John Wakawa and recorded by a group of young artistes to create awareness and garner support for Team Nigeria at the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Worldwide tablet shipments, inclusive of slates and detachables, reached 38.7 million in the second quarter of 2016 (2Q16) preliminary data from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Tablet Tracker, has indicated.

The outstanding issues which have kept 47 base stations under lock and key in Ogun State have been resolve by the Executive Vice Chairman, EVC, of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Professor Umar Garba Danbatta.