The new Climate Innovation Center opened by the World Bank in Accra will help jumpstart Ghana’s clean economy and clean energy initiatives.

Government of Ghana signed a PPP contract to reengineer business registration processes, deploy state-of-the-art application software and hardware, and employ best-in-class solutions for the Ghana Revenue Authority and the Registrar General’s Office.

Fears have gripped the management of Shoprite, a multi-billion Naira shopping mall, following Tuesday’s visit of Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State where he discovered a substandard work done by the expatriate firm in its bid to channel the waste from its industrial activities to the Enugu State College of Education Technical, ESCET.

THESE are certainly not the best of times for Nigeria’s former ruling party, the People Dempcratic Party, PDP. The juggernaut’s transition from power has been so painful, almost like a junkie forcibly weaned off an addiction, that recovery is becoming a frustrating experience. The ruthless vote-rigging contraption that used to arrogantly describe itself as Africa’s largest political party, has dissembled so rapidly, soon after it was thrown out of power last year

WIFE of Edo State governor, Mrs. Iara Oshiomhole, has visited four orphanages in Benin City as part of her efforts at identifying with the needy and less privileged in the society with a view to offering assistance.

ABUJA—THE House of Representatives Ad Hoc Committee on Failed Rail Contracts, yesterday, unearthed 169 ghost companies that registered as contractors with the Nigeria Railway Corporation, NRC, for projects valued at N1 trillion.

OLEH—THERE was confusion in Kwale, headquarters of Ndokwa West Local Government Area, Delta State, Tuesday night, following the sudden death of a 50-year-old pepper soup seller at the sound of sporadic gunshots by police officers.

Lagos State Government has issued a two-week ultimatum to operators of illegal abattoirs in the state to shut down or face the wrath of the law, following increasing circulation of unwholesome processed meat and others.

AHEAD of the July governorship election in Edo State, the state chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has denied allegations that it would impose a candidate on the party to fly its flag in the election.

GOVERNOR Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State has said that the state’s 200-bed Central Hospital was more beautiful and would be better equipped than many hospitals in Europe and Asia.

NIGERIA Labour Congress, NLC, yesterday insisted that there would be a total shut down of Imo State once the 14-day ultimatum issued to the state government to recall the 3000 sacked workers and tackle their unpaid salaries and other benefits expires.

Lagos—Eleven persons yesterday escaped death after a Bristow 5B BJQ helicopter en-route Lagos from an off-shore location in Port Harcourt ditched into the Atlantic Ocean.

Association of Resident Doctors, ARD, in Kogi State, has decried the poor facilities in Federal Medical Centre, FMC, Lokoja and other medical centres in the state, lamenting that it will be a challenge to handling the Lassa fever epidemic in case of any eventuality.

Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, faithful numbering over 250 in Nnewi North Local Government Area of Anambra State, loyal to Chief Kenneth Emeakayi-led faction of the party, yesterday, held solidarity reception for the organizing secretary of the party, Prince Sam Ben Nwosu who paid them a visit.

Governor Mohammed Abubakar of Bauchi State, said yesterday that the state was hosting more than one million Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs, stressing that poverty and ignorance were fueling the activities of insurgency in the northeastern part of the country.