THE first batch of 460 pilgrims billed to perform this year’s Hajj from Kwara State were, yesterday, airlifted to Saudi Arabia from Ilorin, the state capital, aboard a MEDView Airlines’ plane.

TGI Group, the parent company of WACOT Limited, has disclosed that it intends to increase rice milling capacity in Nigeria to 500,000 metric tonnes per annum in the next few years.

THE Nigerian Liquefied Natural Gas, NLNG, Limited has commenced the training of Nigerian maritime professionals in its newly commissioned world class Maritime Centre of Excellence located at the company’s Bonny Island base, Rivers State, with a view to stopping capital flight in the sector.

ONE attribute of democracy is the organisation of elections as at when due at all levels of governance. Dr Arthur Ifeanyi Okowa’s attitude to this, is regenerativeness aas opposed to what obtained during the era of his predecessor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan who apointed sole administrators to mann the local government councils. For the eight years of Uduaghan as governor, he was only able to organise local government elections once, that is at the twilight of his exit from office, an aberration that could only be tolerated in a conservative political environment.

The recent warning by the World Health Organisation (WHO) about the global emergence and menace of Anti-Microbial Resistance (AMR) remains a source of worry. AMR is the resistance of a micro-organism to a drug that was originally effective for treatment of infections caused by that microbe. It is currently one of the greatest global crises in public health.