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.

AS an “Africa booster” myself, or someone who passionately believes in Africa, even when faced with the most ridiculous decisions taken by our leaders or some of the most depressing news, I am one of those who see the current recession as a blessing in disguise, an opportunity to fix the socio-economic issues which have been plaguing us for years.

THE Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed has restated Federal Government’s resolve to transform the Creative Industries to a Creative Economy as a means of providing jobs for the unemployed.

lagos—A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, was, yesterday, told that a former Chief of Air Staff, Adesola Amosu (retd), and 10 others being tried over alleged N22.8 billion fraud, were still in plea bargain talks with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, prosecuting them.

lagos—CATHOLIC Archbishop of the Lagos Metropolis, Dr Alfred Adewale Martins has called on the Federal Government to be proactive with measures that will cushion the effects of the current economic crises in the country, saying that Nigerians are beginning to lose faith in government.