A NON-GOVERNMENTAL Organization, the Women Aid Collective (WACOL) has bemoaned the fate of Nigerian female politicians who it claimed, have been shortchanged by their male counterparts.

Abuja – The Federal Government is owing contractors who worked for the Ministry of Water Resources over the past six years N23 billion, according to a senior official of the ministry.

Abuja – Some senators on Thursday expressed surprise at the Federal High Court judgment extending the tenure of five state governors till 2012.

The management of the New Nigerian Development Corporation (NNDC) – the publishers of New Nigerian Newspapers, Thursday denied owing its 250 pensioners any unpaid increment

Lagos – The Lagos State Environmental Protection Agency (LASEPA) on Thursday called on the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC ) to urgently repair the burst pipes at Diamond Housing Estate, Isheri, Lagos to avert a fire disaster.

Lagos- An Ebute Meta Magistrates Court, Lagos on Wednesday granted a N200,000 bail to a septuagenarian landlord, Adesomoju Odoro who was docked for alleged defilement of a nine-year-old girl.

Minna – President Goodluck Jonathan in Minna commended former Head of State retired Gen . Abdulsalami Abubakar for entrenching democracy in the country.

The UN Development Programme (UNDP) has dropped the daughter of Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi, Aisha al-Gaddafi, as a Goodwill Ambassador.

The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, in Bayelsa State, yesterday, said it had received over 3,000 complaints from voters in the state over anomalies discovered during the just concluded voters registration exercise list on display.