The Inspector General of Police, IGP, Ibrahim Idris and the Comptroller-General of Nigeria Immigration Service, CGI, Muhammad Babandede have said for Nigeria to win the war against criminality, intelligence gathering among security agencies must be strengthened.

The Pension Transitional Arrangement Directorate, PTAD, has adopted a tough policy to sanitize the administration of pension in the country and give a new lease of life to pensioners nationwide.

The Lagos Government through the State’s Domestic and Sexual Violence Response Team, DSVRT, is partnering with Access Bank to commemorate 16 days of activism to end all forms of violence against women and children.

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP has requested the leadership of the National Assembly to publicly account how lawmakers spent N500 billion as running cost between 2006 and 2016, as well as the monthly income and allowances of each Senator and member of the House of Representatives.

A group of legal practitioners in the country, under the aegis of Lawyers Initiative For Civil Rights Advancement in Nigeria, has petitioned the United States Embassy in Nigeria, alerting it of the imminent security threat posed by the Islamic Movement in Nigeria, IMN.

THE alleged imposition of chairmanship and councillor aspirants by Governor Abiola Ajimobi of Oyo state in the forthcoming local government election billed for next February has created cracks within the All Progressives Congress, APC, in the state.

The Vice-Chancellor, Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, Prof. Olusola Oyewole and Pro-Chancellor of the institution, Senator Adeseye Ogunlewe have spent three days in Ibara Prisons following their failure to perfect their bail conditions.

Newly-elected Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State struck the right note in his maiden address to the people of Edo State when he declared that “there is more free lunch”. He has his reasons which the tables below will pertly explain. Contrary to what some consider an early rebuke of his immediate past predecessor, it was nothing more than a bow to reality. Facts remain the eternal enemies of illusions which still drive most of our politicians promising free everything under the sun.

Our commitment has been expressed in the strengthening of the health sector through capacity building, recruitment, upgrading of infrastructure and construction of modern facilities.

A consortium based in the United Kingdom, in collaboration with the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, is to invest over $340 million in the establishment of an ethanol plant in Benue State.

A five-man panel of the Court of Appeal sitting at the Owerri Division has fixed December 5 and 6 to hear an appeal filed by Sir Friday Nwosu against the July 8 judgment of the Federal High Court, Owerri, which cleared Governor Okezie Ikpeazu of alleged submission of false information and forged tax documents.

There is a limit to which you can grow a business with personal savings; invariably, sustained growth and expansion require additional capital, which may be subscribed or borrowed. It is less risky, for example, to borrow, if loanable funds come with cheaper rates below 5%, especially where gestation is necessarily extended; besides, easier access to cheap funds generally stimulates businesses to create more job opportunities. Furthermore, material inputs, similarly financed with low interest loans, will also reduce production cost, and sustain consumer demand with affordable prices.

GOVERNOR Godwin Obaseki of Edo State, has said the billions of naira spent by Nigerians to educate their wards and children in universities abroad do not add value to the country’s economic growth either in the short or long term.

Programme Manager HERFON, Dr. Hassana Adamu has said only 13.9 percent of women of reproductive age in Nasarawa state, have access to contraceptives which is far below the national target of 26 percent.

Federal Government has warned concessionaires of the Inland Container Depots, ICDs and Container Freight Stations, CFSs, to sign and return the new agreement it has prepared for the operation of their faculties or have their licences revoked within two weeks. In a renewed move to ensure that the dry port projects, which have been stagnated for over 13 years are completed and made operational nationwide, the federal government had through the Nigeria Customs Service, NSC, issued a new agreement to the concessionaires to sign and return under two weeks.