THE Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Borno State Council has elected its new executive members who are to run the affairs of the union for three years.

The Federal Mortgage Bank of Nigeria (FMBN) has commenced moves aimed at enhancing its capacity to support mortgage financing in the country, even as it embarks on debt recovery of its non-performing loans.

STARCOMMS Plc has been in the forefront of launching new and innovative services in Nigeria and the latest service is Listen to the Bible on the phone, which is the first of its kind in Nigeria.

Arising from the maiden edition of her annual marketing summit, National Institute of Marketing of Nigeria (NIMN) said market economies ailing from overdose of unsensitized economic dogma requires massive transformation with marketing values.

Standard Bank, the parent company of Stanbic IBTC Plc has affirmed its support to the China's promise of $10 billion concessional loans to African countries.

A forum of Advertising Practitioners Council of Nigeria (APCON) forum has called on Federal Government to amend the Act establishing the council as this will help address conflicting laws and status i the sector.

The ranks of Nigerianflagged vessels swelled last Monday with the dedication and launching at the Lagos Port Complex (LPC), Apapa, of the MT Breakthrough, just as FinBank Plc has restated its commitment to financing maritime transactions.

THE duo of Association of Anambra State Development Unions (AASDU), Lagos chapter cum Ambra Investicorp Trust limited have called on the people of Anambra in diaspora to look homewards and see how they can support building of companies that would make the state economic compliant.

Following the resolution of the US Senate on June 18, formally apologising for fundamental injustice, cruelty, brutality and inhumanity of slavery and the noticeable attempts by some heads of governments, and global opinion leaders to wash off the blights and stains regarding the roles they played in the trans-Saharan and trans-Atlantic slave trade, some Nigerian traditional rulers having been asked to apologise to Africans on behalf of their ancestors.

It is no longer news that the federal government has advanced its plan to fully deregulate the country's downstream oil sector.

The United Nations-backed Global Fund has approved new grants worth $2.4 billion for projects aimed at fighting AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria in low-income countries over the next two years.

The Nigerian police has not had much success at following up murder cases and other crimes. Often the police in our land have dismissed cases of gruesome murder and assassination as the handiwork of armed robbers after announcing to the public that investigations are 'on-going' and will get to the root of the crime.' Most times, the crime is forgotten as the investigation reaches a dead end, yielding little results.

Governor Liyel Imoke of Cross River State has raised alarm over the poor security situation created in the waterway between Nigeria and Republic of Cameroon following the declaration of the area as a buffer zone.

The chairman of the House of Representatives Standing committee on Industry, Hon Solomon Agidani, has called for appropriate pricing of gas to stem eminent collapse of major manufacturing concerns, which had reconsigned their plants in compliance of government's new push to encourage use of gas as the cost effective means of production.

In a dramatic twist, the Super Eagles of Nigeria routed the Harambee Stars of Kenya, 3-2, in their final qualifying match for the South Africa 2010 World Cup. The result has finally got the Super Eagles the 'badly' needed ticket to be at the World Cup, in June 2010.

"It will be judicial blunder to grant this application and the effect will be too disastrous to contemplate. The election was not conducted in accordance with the supreme law of the land. If granted, it will bury the rights of Anambra State people. It is not supported by point of law. The election of Uba was illegal. The application has no moral tone. It is hereby dismissed for want of Merit." - Justice Nwani Ngwuta

Last night at the National Stadium, Abuja, the Swiss national U-17 World Cup team beat the Golden Eaglets of Nigeria 1-0, stopping them from making history as the first team to host and win the U-17 World Cup.

The Federal Government on Friday begged deposit money banks to resume lending to the critical sectors of the economy, especially now that it is making efforts to increase liquidity in the system.

They come in different sizes and ages. They can be found dancing to music only if they can hear, laughing at jokes only if they are told or engrossed in a drama piece only if their eyes can see. Some of them are bound by heavy chains to walls or beds or other such heavy objects and locked up in a room. These are the forgotten ones, children with mental problems in Nigeria .

I was under the impression that the handing down of Divine Revelations to some chosen people on mountain tops ended several centuries ago. That is, until I read a news report last Friday about what Governor Martins Elechi said in Abakaliki on Thursday last week at the swearing-in ceremony of six new commissioners for Ebonyi State.