The Minister of Communications Barr. Adebayo Shittu , and his counter part, for Science & Technology, Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu are expected to speak at the national summit on Information Management hosted by the Institute of Information Management (IIM) holding soon.

Telecommunications giant, MTN Nigeria has thrown its weight behind a new cashless initiative, mCASH, launched recently by the Nigeria Inter-Bank Settlement System Plc, NIBSS.

Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State yesterday said that plans have been concluded to commission 1,125 hectares of land in the state for cattle business.The governor made this known to newsmen in Owerri.

IN response to his earlier request, Governor Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia State, has delivered pairs of made-in-Aba shoes to former President Olusegun Obasanjo as part of the governor’s campaign to market goods produced in Aba.

The administration of former president Olusegun Obasanjo initiated the local content policy for Nigeria in 2006. The main purpose was to increase local capacity and participation in the petroleum industry, because the government needed to achieve a substantial portion of the activities in the oil and gas sector, which was the main stay of Nigerian economy.

YENAGOA—FRESH facts emerged, yesterday, on the circumstances that led to the shooting to death a Police Sergeant, Mr. Salvation Adaka, attached to the Agudama-Epetiama Division of Bayelsa State Police Command by his colleagues over the sharing of a N20,000 largesse, during a patrol duty at Obunagha community in Yenagoa Local Government Area of the state.

Governor Nyesom Wike has called on 22,430 cultists who embraced the state government’s amnesty programme to remain law abiding, assuring that the government would unfold a comprehensive empowerment programme for them.

PORT HARCOURT—Rivers State Police Command, yesterday, paraded a female student of Imo State University, IMSU, Chinwendu Udensi, for conniving with kidnappers to feign her abduction.

Alaba International market traders, on the platform of Electrical Dealers Association of Nigeria, EDAN, have pledged to work in conjunction with the Federal Government and other regulatory agencies to ensure they upheld highest standard in their business.

THE challenge of widowhood, especially in Igboland is, to say the least, completely overwhelming. Closely associated with this nagging problem, is the obnoxious widowhood practices, which are constantly meted out to hapless, helpless widows, making their plight even more heartbreaking!

FACTIONAL National Chairman of the PDP, Alhaji Ali Modu-Sheriff, yesterday, said that the party’s candidate, Mr. Jimoh Ibrahim will spring surprises by winning the November 26 governorship election.

In Nigeria, various administrations have come and gone without making much impact on the science and technology sector.

Eminent sons and daughters of Esanland have called on Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State to reinstate the deposed Onojie of Uromi, Anselm Aidenojie II, claiming the immediate past government in the state deposed him in bad faith.

CHAIRMAN of the All Progressives Congress ,APC, Governors Forum and Imo State governor, Mr. Rochas Okorocha, yesterday, said that the party was not jittery but concerned about the spate of defection in its Ondo State chapter following the emergence of Rotimi Akeredolu, SAN, as governorship candidate.

ENUGU—The Ugwuoba Cattle Market/Settlers Association in Oji River Local Government Area of Enugu State has appealed to the state governor, Chief Ifeanyi Lawrence Ugwuanyi to urgently intervene in the leadership crisis which was about to lead to a crisis in the market.