CONTRACTORS handling projects at the new Games Village complex in Greater Port Harcourt City, Rivers State, have been told to speed up work, so that the facilities would be ready before October 1, this year.

Former Minister of Power and Steel, Dr. Olu Agunloye, yesterday picked the Labour Party, LP, nomination and expression of interest forms to contest for Ondo North senatorial district under the party’s platform in the 2011 elections

Protests are trailing the appointment of a new executive director for the National Veterinary Research Institute, NVRI, Vom Plateau State over the alleged refusal of the Minister of Agriculture to follow due process.

IN line with its commitment to offering world class services, First Bank of Nigeria Plc (FirstBank) has embarked on the restructuring of its market facing departments. This involves creating specialized business units to serve specific customer segments. The changes are meant to help the bank serve its customers more efficiently and effectively.

THE National Chairman of Social Democratic Mega Party, SDMP, Professor Pat Utomi, said yesterday that it was a time of great challenge for the country as Nigeria marks its 50 years of existence as a nation, just as he stressed that the noise surrounding the celebration might take away the ability to reflect.

AGGRIEVED workers of moribund Nigeria Telecommunication Limited, NITEL and its Mobil-Telecommunication, M-TEL, yesterday, for the second day, laid siege on the Ministry of Labour and Productivity, demanding payment of their 30 month salary arrears and benefits.

SENATORS from the South-East and other aggrieved Igbos, yesterday,condemned the lock out of former Vice President, Dr. Alex Ekwueme and other Igbo political leaders from the national Igbo summit held, Monday, in Owerri; with some of the respondents accusing the Federal Government for allegedly being responsible for the action.

Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mr. Dimeji Bankole, said that corruption in high places will continue to mar the nation’s development.

PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan, yesterday, joined other Nigerians in condemning the kidnap of 15 school children in Aba, Abia State, by hoodlums who are demanding the sum of N20million as ransom

By Dayo Benson & Ola Ajayi

LAGOS—FOLLOWING the decision of the Independent National Electoral Commission not to recognize the existence of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, executives in eight states where it said congresses were inconclusive, the party in Oyo State said, yesterday, that the electoral body had gone beyond the purview of its power.

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