THE House of Representatives, Wednesday , resolved to intervene in the lingering industrial crisis in the power sector as a move to forestall the looming strike planned by the National Union of Electricity Employees, NUEE.

AN unidentified woman was yesterday killed while several others sustained various degress of injuries after a truck ran into them at Dugbe-Alawo area of Ibadan.

Rivers Peoples Con-gress, RPC, has called on the opposition candidates in the April governorship election in Akwa Ibom State to drop their cases against Governor Godswill Akpabio in the election tribunal and join hands to move the state forward.

Tragedy struck yesterday as thunderstorms swept through Gombe, Yobe and Bauchi states killing 19 persons. Among the dead were eight men, six women and five children

GOVERNOR Olusegun Mimiko of Ondo State yesterday denied media reports that he nominated a member of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to President Goodluck Jonathan for consideration as minister even as he pleaded that he be left out of issues pertaining to the PDP.

A Federal High Court sitting in Benin, Edo State, has awarded the sum of N10million to one Lucky Etomokwu, a physically challenged, as general damages for his unlawful arrest and detention by the Edo State Command of the State Security Services, SSS.

A socio-political group, Ndokwa Youths National Movement, NYNM, has condemned the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, Oil Pipeline Surveillance plans, which is coordinated by the Delta State Government, saying that out of the 6,000 slots of surveillance jobs given out by the Federal Government to the state government as youth empowerment programme for pipelines host communities, none was given to the Ndokwa nation.