The Accountant-General of the Federation, Mr. Ahmed Idris, has applauded the Nigeria Police for keying into the Integrate Personnel Payroll Information System, IPPIS, and other Public Finance Reforms initiatives being implemented by the Office of the Accountant-General of the Federation, OAGF.

THE Vice-Chancellor of the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN), Prof. Abdalla Uba Adamu, has described the Akwa Ibom State governor, Deacon Udom Emmanuel, as ‘a champion of education’ for his efforts at transforming the state’s education sector.

The Transmission Company of Nigeria, TCN, has said the nation’s power generation improved slightly to 3,528.90 megawatts on February 1, from 2,662 megawatts on January 22.

FROM the lessons of Social Psychology, it is clear that nothing should be written-off as totally wrong because even a dead clock is correct twice everyday. All those who hate war with passion must wait till they see how war reconstruction efforts turned Hiroshima from a ghetto to an ultra-modern city after it was reduced to rubbles by the bombs of the Allied Forces in Word War II.

A Nigerian woman, who went into labour mid-flight from Chicago to London and was taken to the Queen Charlotte’s and Chelsea Hospital in West London where she gave birth to quadruplets, is owing the hospital more than £500,000 (N192,596,900) as cost of the complex birth and care of the babies.

WARRI — Women from the 19 wards in Warri South Local Government Area of Delta State, yesterday marched through Ajamimogha, Okere Market Square, Okere Road, Warri-Sapele Road, Warri Garage, McDermott Road, Iyara, Cemetery Road, Igbudu and terminated at Market Road, calling on a former Chief Whip of Warri South Legislative Arm, Griftson Omatsuli, to contest the chairmanship seat in the next council poll in the state.

UNLIKE some loquacious set of people who ventilate negative feelings against President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration in the media, Chief Innocent Chukwuma, Chairman/ CEO of INNOSON Group has a strong belief that this administration is well –intentioned and poised to change things for the better. As one of Nigeria’s leading industrialists, and pioneer auto mobile manufacturer his businesses are bound to thrive within the framework of the federal government’s diversification and industrialisation policy.

TALKS between the Minister of Science and Technology, Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu, and the FAO Sub-regional Coordinator and Representative to the African Union and United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, UNECA, Mr. Patrick Kormawa, on the menace of Animal Trypasonomiasis took centrestage recently.

TWO eminent Nigerians were recognized and honored at the 6th Convocation of the Fountain University, Osogbo, Osun State, with the conferment of honorary degree awards.

AS controversy over the alleged police killing of Daniel Osikoya, a Chi Food Nigeria Limited, Lagos, casual worker on December 30, 2016, and injuring of another, Victor Oyare, during an industrial unrest, rages on, parents of late Osikoya have pleaded with organized labour to assist them to get justice.

The Federal Road Safety Corps, FRSC, in Nasarawa State, yesterday, disclosed that two students died in separate accidents in the state during the week.

Ekiti state has approved the payment of Consolidated Medical Salary Structure (CONMESS) to medical doctors on its payroll.

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), has slammed a life ban on Mr Albert Okumagba, the group Managing Director, BGL Group and his deputy, Mr Chibundu Edozie.

English Premier League table after Wednesday’s matches (played, won, drawn, lost, goals for, goals against, points):