By Soni Daniel, Northern Region Editor The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Tuesday, October 4, 2016 presented its first witness, PW1, Umar Bello, in the trial of one Olugbenga Obadina, Chairman and Managing Director, Almond Projects Limited, who is facing an eight-count charge of fraud before Justice Nnamdi Dimgba of the Federal High […]

The 2016 Medical Director’s Cup Football competition of the National Orthopaedic Hospital, Igbobi Lagos came to an exciting end at the weekend with the Medical Director’s team outclassing the Nurses Department in the final.

THE Senate has resolved to prioritize and fast-track the passage of the Petroleum Industry Bill, PIB, and other legislations capable of contributing to the quick recovery of the national economy, and provide favourable level playing environment for both local and foreign investors.

Managing Director of the Lagos Deep Offshore Logistics base (LADOL), Dr. Amy Jadesimi has advocated an increase in the role of women in the development of global economic growth.

THE Senate and House of Representatives Joint committee on Employment, Labour and Productivity has summoned the Minister of Labour and Productivity, Senator Chris Ngige, over alleged skewed employment at the Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund, NSITF.

OCTOBER 1, 2016, Nigeria’s 56th Independence Day, came without much fanfare even if many had looked forward to the one-day holiday it afforded. The question on the lips of many was; what was there to celebrate about this day. Many would often wonder if Nigeria’s Independence Day is worth rolling out the drums for.

Scores of physically-challenged persons and traders, yesterday, stormed the office of Lagos State governor, Akinwunmi Ambode, protesting alleged indiscriminate arrest of persons with disability and displacement of traders and artisans as beggars in the state.

LAGOS—Operatives of Zonal Intervention Squad, Zone 2 Command, Onikan, Lagos, have smashed an eight-man inter-state robbery gang, which terrorised residents in Lagos and Ogun states. They were given away by one of the phones they stole in an operation.

A member of the kidnap gang that abducted the wife of the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Margaret Emefiele, and three others, last Friday, has disclosed that the gang had no inkling of who their victim was.

CONTRARY to perceptions in different quarters that outsourcing takes away jobs and throws many people back into the labour market, there are revelations that, instead, it creates job opportunities as much as it adds up to $300 million to the Nigerian economy yearly.

FOUR days to the World Cup Qualifiers match between the Super Eagles and the Chipolopolo of Zambia slated to take place in Lusaka Sunday, the President of the Nigeria Football Federation, Mr. Amaju Pinnick, yesterday told the Senate that the government has no fund to sponsor such event.

THE League of Patriotic Lawyers has said that the appointment of Ms. Sharon Ikeazor as the Executive Secretary of Pension Transitional Arrangement Directorate ,PTAD, would revive the agency from what it described as an ailing state.

That telecommunications services have gained traction in Nigeria can only be evidenced by the encouraging figures coming out of the industry. Apart from the monthly reports of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) which put subscription figures at 226,426,215 connected lines for the month of July, 2016, 150, 262,066 active lines, 92,181,178 internet subscribers and a teledensity of 107.33 per cent within the same period, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) also recently ascribed huge growth rate to the sector.

BlackBerry: AT last, the Canadian company that invented the smartphone has stopped production of handsets. This shows admittance of defeat in a battle lost long ago to Apple and Samsung Electronics. With this development, the company said it is handing over production of the phones to overseas partners and turning its full attention to the more profitable and growing software business.

ABUJA—The Economic Community for West African States, ECOWAS, Court, yesterday, ordered the Federal Government to immediately release the erstwhile National Security Adviser, NSA, Col. Sambo Dasuki, retd, from detention.