GOVERNOR Rotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State, at the weekend, presented an Appropriation bill of N171.2 billion to the state House of Assembly.

THE Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation (NDIC) has successfully obtained three certifications from the British Standards Institution (BSI) after a rigorous process of satisfying the conditions precedent to accreditation. The Corporation in a statement said the certifications were for Information Security Management System ISO/IEC 27001:2013, IT Service Management System ISO/IEC 20000-1:2011 and Business Continuity Management System, ISO 22301:2012.

Kaduna State yesterday joined the three cities of Jos, Abuja and Ilorin to switch on from analogue to digital communication. This followed the official commissioning of the city by the State Governor, Mallam El- Rufai accompanied by the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed in Kaduna.

The Governor of Lagos State, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode, said human resources counseling is a form of leadership development training, and how high performances have been known to increase in organisations that expose their human capital to counseling and leadership development through training programmes of this nature.

AS Nigerian Christians join other faithful across the world today to celebrate Christmas, Senate President Bukola Saraki, his deputy, Senator Ike Ekweremadu and former Senate President, Senator David Mark have urged Christians to pray for peace, love and unity of the country.

AS Christians all over the world celebrate Christmas, the Oba of Benin, Oba Ewuare II, has felicitated with Christians in Nigeria.

THE Network on Police Reform in Nigeria, NOPRIN, has declared the Commissioner of Police, CP, Lagos State, Imohimi Edgal,  as the policeman of the year 2017.

GOVERNOR Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State, says he has ordered 80 percent of the petrol in the government house dump to be pumped out and sold at N145 per litre.

INVESTORS in the nation’s capital market have continued to demonstrate low appetite towards shares of companies in the oil and gas sector of the Nigerian Stock Exchange, NSE, as the sector’s performance year-to-date, ytd, lagged largely behind the other sectors in the market.

ABUJA—THE Nigerian power industry has attained national peak of 5,222.3 megawatts of electricity effectively transmitted in the national grid on December 18, 2017.