Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, Monday, condemned Governor Segun Mimiko of Ondo State and “a handful of labour leaders” who “purportedly” signed an agreement for the state to pay N14, 000 as new minimum wage pending an upward review of allocation formula.

TWO children and a middle-aged woman were drowned in a flood after a heavy downpour that lasted several hours in Ibadan on Sunday.

An Osog-bo High Court, Monday, ordered the Ataoja of Osogboland, Alhaji Jimoh Oyetunji Olanipekun, Larooye II, to vacate the throne with immediate effect and stop parading himself as Ataoja of Osogbo.

Microsoft Nigeria in partnership with Paradigm Initiative Nigeria (PIN) recently hosted the Microsoft NGO Connection Day Nigeria 2011 in Abuja.

HUNDREDS of protesters from Aja-Omaetan oil-rich community in Warri North Local Government Area of Delta State, Monday, shut the gates of Chevron Nigeria Limited, on Warri/NPA expressway and disrupted its operations for several hours before their leaders were invited into the premises of the company for dialogue

Fear gripped residents of Jos, yesterday, following rumours of an impending attack by members of the Boko Haram sect.

As early as 6am, SMS messages started circulating that the sect would attacks the state capital. The SMS advised receivers to be on the alert.

YOUTHS from the nine states of the Niger Delta, under the auspices of the Niger Delta Ethnic Coalition, yesterday, called on President Goodluck Jonathan to order security agencies to investigate activities of purportedly sponsored groups, which, in the past few weeks, had mounted campaigns of calumny against the Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, Mr. Chibuzor Ugwoha.

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, has called for the involvement of communities in the country in the prevention of the cultivation of illicit drugs, drug abuse and drug trafficking.

Initiative for Better Power Supply, IBPS, has called on workers of the Power Holding Company of Nigeria, PHCN, to support the power reform of President Goodluck Jonathan.