WITH 2017 just around the corner, some predictions have emerged from across the mobile telecommunications space on what are expected to be seen in the New Year.

AWKA – STILL basking in the euphoria of the successes recorded in commercial rice production, Anambra State, under the Fadama III additional financing, has concluded plans to go into value chain commercial production of cassava, in 2017. To ensure the success of the programme, some local government areas which have comparative advantage in cassava production have been selected for the project.

ABA—But for providence, not less than 20 hawkers at the Factory Road railway crossing, Aba, Abia State, would have on December 9, 2016, lost their lives as a train rammed into a truck on the ever busy road.

THE build up to the Imo pensioners protest was very clear to all discerning minds and watchers of happenings in the state. It began with the deafening clamour from pensioners that government should pay their staggering arrears of pension and gratuity.

STAR of that pioneering Nigerian movie, “Living in Bondage”, Nnenna Nwabueze-Okonta popularly called Merit, is no stranger to the world of beauty, having been looking utterly ‘ravishing’ even after 22 years in marriage. In her 24-year career in the movie industry, the mother of six children has learned a number of beauty tips and tricks to keep her looking flawless both on set and on the go.