President of Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators of Nigeria (ICSAN), Mr. Samuel Kolawole, has called on the Federal Government to seek for alternative source of income to shore up the economy, insisting that over-reliance on oil should be ended.

THE number of payment cards globally increased by 8 percent in 2016 to 14 billion with one billion new cards issued in 2016, according to a survey conducted by London-based research firm, RBR.

RIVERS State governor, Mr Nyesom Wike has again accused his predecessor, the Minister of Transportation, Mr Chibuike Amaechi of allegedly blackmailing the Supreme Court Justices because his appeal against the judgment of the Appeal Court on the Rivers State Judicial Commission of Inquiry was before the apex court.

o fewer than 22 persons, including a National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, member, have been killed and five others missing in different flood disasters across Gombe State this year, the state’s Emergency Management Agency, SEMA, has said.

THE Acting Secretary of All Progressives Congress, APC, in Akwa Ibom State, Mr Edet Bassey, has congratulated members of the party for their peaceful conduct, during Saturday’s state-wide congress for the election of three delegates from each local government area of the state, preparatory to the non-elective National Convention of the party coming up later this year.

No fewer than six students out of the 144 sponsored by the Presidential Amnesty Programme to pursue various courses in British universities have done Nigeria proud by emerging with first class honours.

The Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar, has approved the training of 450 regiment personnel as Nigerian Air Force, NAF, Special Forces by Israeli instructors in three batches.

The Sokoto Orthopedic Hospital has successfully conducted total knee transplant on a 50-year old woman. Disclosing this in Wamakko town Monday, the Chief Medical Director of the hospital, Dr Nuradeen Altine Aliyu said the surgery was to correct severe degenerative disease.

Giant Tyre Manufacturing Company DN Tyre and Rubber Plc, formerly Dunlop Nigeria Plc, has instituted a $14.6million suit on a commercial bank, a church and five others over alleged illegal acquisition of its land.

MICHAEL Paul, a 15-year-old student of Excelgrace Academy, Gboko, Benue State, has traced his success in Mathematics to his boldness in confronting the phobia that has killed the interest of many students in the subject. Paul, a Senior Secondary 2 student explained to journalists at the venue of the on-going 2017 Cowbellpedia Secondary Schools Mathematics TV Quiz Show, a competition sponsored by the flagship brand of Promasidor Nigeria Limited, Cowbell Our Milk that he “attacks mathematics and devours it like a lion.”

A Rivers State High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, yesterday, sentenced to death a Police Sergeant, Mr. Lucky Orji, and two others, David Ogbada and Ikechukwu Amadi alias Kapoon, for their roles in the murder of the four students of University of Port Harcourt, popularly known as the Aluu 4.

ABUJA—A non- governmental organization, Alliance for Credible Elections, ACE, has tracked 182 federal capital projects captured in the 2015 federal budget, in Benue, Imo, Ekiti, Jigawa, Cross River, and Gombe states, with some of the projects poorly executed, abandoned or not executed at all.

Abuja—Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State has promised to redouble his efforts at providing effective service delivery to the people of the state.
The governor made the pledge yesterday, shortly on arrival at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport Abuja from a two-week leave which he spent in the United Kingdom.

The Group Managing Director, Masters Reality International, handlers of the new Alade Market, Lai Omotola, an engineer, has put the cost of the newly built Alade Market in Ikeja area of Lagos state at N2 billion with additional N150 million to be expended on the project before the end of 2017

—As FG pledges to provide accurate demarcation of border lines By Chris Ochayi The minister of Works, housing and power, Babatunde Fashola has tasked professionals in the construction sector of the nation’s economy to strive and get international certification in order to be globally compive. Fashola, who gave the charge in Abuja while declaring open […]