PENSION Transitional Arrangement Directorate, PTAD, has explained that the ongoing biometric verification of Federal Civil Service pensioners is aimed at providing accurate database and eliminate ghost pensioners who may want to benefit from the payment of pension allowance.

The Saudi government has apologised to two Nigerian pilgrims who were maltreated by security personnel at the Madina Airport.

Governor Mohammed Abubakar of Bauchi State said, yesterday, that with 92,000 worforce and a monthly wage bill of N5.1 billion, the state’s ongoing verification exercise, which has entered the biometric stage, is necessary.

The United Nations Children’s Fund, UNICEF, said yesterday that no fewer than 83 children, including 55 girls, 27 boys and a baby strapped to the mother’s back, have been used as human bombs by Boko Haram in the North-East this year.

THE Founder and Chief Executive Officer of KOBO, a  longistics firm, Mr. Obi Ozor, has said that Nigerian companies can  make close to 500 percent profit if they invest in the estimated yearly $80billion logistic industry.

AMIDST rising sales profile, indigenous flour  producers are grappling with the high demand for the product, alongside fierce competition, which  has triggered a flurry of activities in the over $2billion flour market.

FACED with consumers’ increasing demand for value in the brands’ promises, toilet soap producers have intensified marketing strategies to win back consumers’ unstable loyalty to their various brands. This is at the backdrop of market perspectives that with a sustained population growth the demand for toilet soap is expected to continue to grow.

The Minister of Health, Professor Isaac Adewole, has disclosed that about N4 billion has been spent by the Federal Government in the ongoing humanitarian crisis in the North-East.

THE Chief Medical Director, Bauchi Specialist Hospital, Dr. Ya’a Sulaiman, has declared that patients of spinal cord and brain injuries in the North-East need not panic over their health status.

PROMASIDOR Nigeria Limited, PNL, has appointed Mr. Anders Einarsson as Managing Director. He succeeds Mr. Olivier Thiry, who is now elevated to the Group as chief executive officer.

The Pro-Chancellor and Chairman of the Governing Council of Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, LAUTECH, Ogbomoso, Professor Oladapo Afolabi, has given assurance that the protracted strike action embarked upon by the university workers will end in days.

The Senior Special Assistant to Kogi State Governor on Entertainments, Arts and Culture, Mercy Johnson Okojie, who launched a talent hunt for the youths of Kogi state on 17th of August, has been described as a rare gem to the people of the state.

The economy is expected to receive a boost as Integrated Produce City Limited set up $135 million commodities exchange in Edo State.

IT may not be so surprising if the next renewable energy experts to bail the country out of the epileptic power supply would be indigent Nigerian girls.

WITH 91 million broadband base, Nigeria leads Africa as the highest mobile broadband growing country. This also gives the global record a handsome push to the 4.3 billion mobile broadband subscriptions window it attained recently.