The Federal Government yesterday declared that issues of all-encompassing food safety and public health can no longer be treated with levity in the country as part of strategies to boost Nigeria’s export of food and agricultural produce to the international markets without rejection on safety grounds.

Leicester have announced in a statement their ‘unwavering support’ for manager Claudio Ranieri.

Necessity, they say, is the mother of invention. Hot climates squeezed out electric fans, long distances pre-existed aeroplanes and far-flung relatives fuelled the rise of social media. If there is a breeding ground for necessity, it must be called a recession; a term that aptly describes Nigeria’s current state. Appzone’s Executive director, Business Operations and Expansion, Emeka Emetarom, believes that the current recession though hard on many Nigerians, is helping spur innovation.

A FEDERAL High Court sitting in Lagos, yesterday, suspended further proceedings in a suit filled by Ecobank Nigeria Limited seeking to recover an alleged N5.5billion debt from Honeywell Flour Mills Plc.

THE leadership of the National Union of Electricity Employees, NUEE, yesterday said workers of Transmission Company of Nigeria, TCN, had been directed by the two unions in the power sector to shut TCN nationwide should the government insist on having Ahaji Usman Gur Mohammed of African Development Bank, ADB, as Interim Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of TCN.

THE Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics, ASUP, Federal Polytechnic, Mubi chapter, has said it is loyal to the national body, but gave reasons why it did not join the recent industrial action called by its national leadership.

Governor Simon Lalong of Plateau State has lost an appeal filed against the 271 elected councillors he sacked in July 2015 before the Court of Appeal sitting in Jos.

A wired and wireless digital video surveillance service provider and contractor, Metro Digital Mobile, Limited, MDM, has moved to shut down Onitsha main market to recover alleged N72 million debt the traders owe it.

Former Managing Director of Finbank Plc, Mr Okey Nwosu yesterday told an Ikeja high court that his inability to assess some vital documents was delaying his defence in the alleged N10.9 billion theft case preferred against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).

Lagos—An employee of a security company, Paul Njoku, who allegedly gave false information to police, appeared before an Igbosere magistrate’s court, Lagos, yesterday.