The House of Representatives, yesterday, directed the committees on Environment, Petroleum Resources, Upstream and Gas, to probe the alleged dumping of substances suspected to be toxic waste in Koko, a Warri community in Delta State.

THE Federal Government has set aside N112.2 billion, under the 2017 budget proposals currently before the National Assembly, for the Government Enterprise and Empowerment Programme (GEEP).

INFORMATION Minister Lai Mohammed, was the one who said that President Buhari was ‘hale and hearty’ notwithstanding Mr. President himself had said that he was in London to spend some part of his leave to attend to his health. And the questions arose: ‘what does it mean to be ‘hale and hearty’? Who is supposed to be ‘hale and hearty’? Is a person ‘hale and hearty’ merely because he is not bed ridden on account of ill-health, or is a person ‘hale and hearty’ only because he is able to be ‘up and about’ in spite of ill-health? Maybe.

Technology giant, Huawei at the ongoing Mobile World Congress holding in Barcelona, Spain, has released the industry’s first 5G network slicing router at MWC 2017 in Barcelona, Spain.

Ibadan—A collapsed building at 19 Kobiowu Crescent, Iyanganku GRA in Ibadan, yesterday, left one person dead with nine others sustaining serious injuries.

MINISTER of Finance, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun has stated that the Development Bank of Nigeria (DBN) is being positioned to galvanise the Small and Medium Scale Enterprises, SMEs, sector for the overall development of the nation’s economy.

FOR quite a long time, it has become an irritating stance exhibited at both federal and state levels that issues related to the propagation and realistic promotion of our national creative themes have always been treated with unserious and insultive actions which, to the real disciples of creativity make them the forgotten part of our citizenry.

International Energy Insurance Plc has secured the approval of shareholders to raise N13 billion from the capital market to enhance its operation.

Chief Executive Officer of Dangote Cement Plc, Onne van der Weijde, has assured investors of better returns on their investment, saying the company sold 8.6 million metric tons of cement outside Nigeria, which is 54 per cent more than that of 2015.

Group General Manager, GGM, of National Petroleum Investment Management Services, NAPIMS, Mr Dafe Sejeb, has inaugurated an Asset Management team for two indigenous oil firms, Seplat Petroleum Development Company and Belema Producing Limited.

We are pleasantly gratified to note that the Made-in-Nigeria campaign is finding more willing advocates, especially at the commanding heights of the Federal Government. Gradually, this important inward-looking crusade is catching the fancy of people in leadership positions.

EXPORTERS have decried government’s directive on the utilization of their export proceeds saying it discourages local manufacturers from exporting goods to other parts of the world.

Judges and magistrates across the country have called on mothers to live an impressive and accomplished life of service despite harsh economic challenges in the country.

THE Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, yesterday, released its Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) report for February, 2017 which indicated continued decline in economic activities, coming against the backdrop of the bottoming-out of recessionary trend as reported earlier in the week by the National Bureau of Statistics, NBS.

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, yesterday, stated that it had shut down the Warri Refinery, due to some technical issues surrounding its operations.