Even as referees are always blamed for almost every bad officiating, reprieve may have come their way as the Technical Adviser of Nigerian premier league side, Elkanemi Warriors of Maiduguri, Ladan Bosso believes that club owners, not the referees should be held responsible for the ugly trend.

THE general notion is that insurance brokers are too many, do you agree with that?
It is wrong to say that brokers are too many. In the business of insurance, there are too many structures. There are the heavy industries like the Dangotes and the oil companies as well as the small businesses that supply to the heavy industries.

Kaduna—Armed thugs, yesterday, attacked journalists and others at the Kaduna State Council of the Nigerian Union of Journalists, NUJ, secretariat, disrupting a press conference being addressed by Senators Shehu Sani and Othman Hunkuyi on the outcome of the recently held congress of All Progressives Congress, APC.

THE emerging trend where some quoted companies have planned to offset their dollar denominated loans through equity conversion is raising dust among minority investors in the capital market.

It is just a matter of time before Bauchi becomes the economic and developmental hub of the sub-Saharan region

HOW did you get into insurance, was that your chosen career from the beginning?
I didn’t want to study insurance and I in fact rejected studying insurance. I wanted to go to Ahmadu Bello University because I was a very staunch Muslim student at secondary school and at HSC levels. So because of Islam, I wanted to go to ABU to study accounting and it was in the days of direct entry – before JAMB.

To ensure young people stay away from risky behaviour while on holidays, the Youth Empowerment and Development Initiative, YEDI is set for its 5th edition of the annual summer holiday camps tagged ‘Skillz Holiday Camps’ designed to educate youths on healthy habits and important life skills.

As part of measures to make public commuting affordable, operator of Bus Rapid Transit, BRT, Franchise in Lagos State, Primero Transport Services Limited, has concluded plans to slash the current flat rate of bus fares from Ikorodu to Tafawa Balewa Square, TBS, corridors of the state.

One of the books that changed the thinking of many during our undergraduate days was Walter Rodney’s How Europe Underdeveloped Africa. Rodney in the book tried to paint the picture of how the actions/inactions of the Europeans impoverished the people of Africa. After going through the book, most of us were infuriated about the Europeans.

Electricity Generating Companies, GENCOs, have presented a seven-point demand to the Federal Government asking for an immediate end to electricity rejection by National Control Centre, NCC, Osogbo, Osun State, in collaboration with the Electricity Distribution Companies, DISCOs.

With a donation of six Hilux vehicles by Dangote Group weekend, the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC said it is improving monitoring and surveillance activities with a view to ensure that only safe products are in circulation in Nigeria.

More revelations about the 65-day abduction experience of the freed six Senior Secondary School students of Lagos Model College, Igbonla Epe, in their abductors’ den were unveiled yesterday, as one of the students disclosed how they attempted to escape from the den when it became apparent that their captors were not willing to release them quickly.

HUNDREDS of traders at the Wappa market in Kano weekend benefitted from the ongoing nationwide free medical services organised by Dexa Medica, makers of Boska, under its Pain Free Day initiative programme.

As the World weekend marked this year’s World Hepatitis Day, the World Health Organization, WHO, has disclosed that, estimated 325 million people worldwide have viral hepatitis even as the 257 million people living with hepatitis B and 71 million people living with hepatitis C have no access to treatment.

The Federal Government has adopted the $11billion Dangote refinery, under its new National Petroleum Policy in order to add value to crude oil, reduce high dependence on imported petroleum products and conserve foreign exchange for other developmental projects.