THE Republic of Ghana has become a sovereign shareholder in  Africa Finance Corporation, AFC and is set to invest  $50 million commitment to purchase AFC equity.

UPENEKANG—WITH less than one year to the next general elections in the country, the Akwa Ibom State Government has, through the local government areas intensified sensitisation of the rural people on the ongoing Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) exercise across the state.

Despite reduction in militancy activities across the nation, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, disclosed that a total of 1,005 pipeline points were vandalized in the last one year.

Association of Waste Managers of Nigeria AWAM, the umbrella body of private sector participation otherwise known as PSP in refuse collection in Lagos State, is at loggerhead with a splinter group of the association that calls itself Concerned Waste Collectors in Lagos over disagreement on the state government’s decision to exclude them from collecting domestic waste.

A  Nigerian Germany-based medical practitioner, Dr. Alanna Ebigbo, has donated a diagnostic facility, an endoscopy machine to the University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital, UNTH, Ituku Ozalla, Enugu state.

As part of its efforts to protect the environment, help in cutting down on power consumption and saving teeming Nigerian consumers some money on electricity bills, the leading electrical appliances retailer, CoolWorld Retail Store, has introduced a new range of energy saving Haier Thermocool refrigerators, freezers and air conditioners into the Nigeria market.

Former President, Nigerian Institution of Estate Surveyors and Valuers NIESV, and Chairman, Bode Adediji Partnership, a firm of estate surveyors and valuers, Mr. Oyebode David Adediji, has emerged president of the Alumni Association of the Faculty of Environmental Design and Management, EDM, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State.

OWERRI—The Principal of Federal Government College, Okigwe, Mrs. A. C. Opara, says she is worried by “the status of college perimeter fence”, in view of the security situation in the country.

ABUJA—The Nigerian Communications Commission is to collaborate with the US War College in the area of cyber security.

The Chairman, Lekki Local Council Development Area, Barrister Ogidan Olaitan has pledged to ensure that family planning commodities are made available and services are free in all 13 Primary Healthcare centres across the council.