If a minimum of one per cent of a country’s population donates one per cent blood, the country can meet its basic requirement in blood; Nigeria is unable to meet this minimum requirement

The Minister for Petroleum Resources, Dr. Ibe Kachukwu has granted Lekoil Limited consent to complete the transfer of the original 17.14 percent participating interest that the company acquired in Oil Prospective License, OPL 310, in February 2013, to Mayfair Assets and Trust, a subsidiary of Lekoil.

Chief Perekeme Kpodoh, former Security Adviser to Bayelsa State Government and chieftain of All Progressives Congress, APC, yesterday, commended the administration of Governor Seriake Dickson for the construction and completion of road projects and health infrastructure, saying that the health projects are saving the lives of people in Bayelsa State.

Vice Chancellor of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, UNN, Prof Benjamin Ozumba has praised Vanguard Newspaper for its objectivity and accurate report of events, saying that it has helped in training mass communication students of the university.

THE Manufacturers Association of Nigeria, MAN, and the Lagos Chambers of Commerce and Industry, LCCI, yesterday, called on the Federal Government’s Presidential Enabling Business Environment Council (PEBEC) to tackle other constraints fuelling the cost of doing business in the country.

GOVERNOR David Umahi of Ebonyi State yesterday called on youth corps members deployed to the state to shun negative attitudes and corrupt tendencies during and after their one year compulsory service to the nation.

Air Peace Airline management has said the airline is yet to quantify its losses that run into millions of naira following the disruption of its early weekend flight operations at Akanu Ibiam International Airport, Enugu by the airport management,which erroneously stopped the airline from processing passengers at their check-in counter over what it called the airline’s indebtedness to Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria, FAAN.

American oil company operating in Akwa Ibom State, Exxon-Mobil Corporation, has been given a marching order to relocate its headquarters to its operational base in the state or face dire consequences from the people.

MEMBERS of Taraba State chapter of Miyeti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria, yesterday, took its protest against the state’s Open Grazing Prohibition and Ranchers Establishment Bill 2017 to the House of Assembly.

PORT HAR-COURT— Rivers State Government has promised to run a tax friendly economy, saying that it had evolved a process to eliminate multiple taxation.

Mrs Esther Osiebe, one of the women detained since December 2016 over her inability to pay medical bills, has been abandoned by her husband at the private clinic in Sapele, Delta State.

AGAINST the backdrop of the huge capital expenditure involved in mass housing development, housing experts have said the sector requires appropriate finance, insisting that finance is a critical ingredient in housing development. This is the submission of the experts who spoke at various forums.

The fate of students in the 104 Federal Unity Colleges in Nigeria is hanging in the balance, as staff, yesterday, embarked on an indefinite strike over the non-payment of salaries and allowances.

Ibusa Professional Women Association, led by Dr. Ifeoma Utomi, has stressed the need for all, especially those in the rural areas, to be health conscious and go for regular checks to avoid health hazards.

THE Kaduna State government yesterday sacked 4776 district and village heads as well as their staff as it began the implementation of the recommendations of the committee it set up to review the number of such personnel in the state.