Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, yesterday, said though the Commission has a robust and vigorous healthcare programme which has seen more than one million Niger Deltans receive free medical care over the years, the recent programme that brought Indian doctors to Igbokoda, Ondo State, was a private enterprise and did not have the approval of the Board of the Commission as published in a national daily (not Vanguard).

No fewer than 6,000 former militants from the Niger Delta region may be excluded from the on-going rehabilitation training programme at the Obubra Camp in Cross River State.

The death toll from last week’s suicide bomb attack on the UN’s headquarters in Nigeria has risen to 23, including 11 United Nations staff, the world body said in a statement on Tuesday.

Workers in Niger State have warned the state government to implement the N18,000 Minimum Wage Act immediately or witness industrial action.

THE first wife of the chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Edo State and Chairman/Managing Director of Tomline Industrial Company Limited, Mrs Bridget Sorae, who was shot, Sunday, when suspected kidnappers abducted her husband, died yesterday.

JUDICIARY Staff Union of Nigeria, JUSUN, Edo State chapter, yesterday, commenced a one-week warning strike over the non-inclusion of salary grade levels 1 to 6 of its members in the new minimum wage scheme by the state government.

Libya’s rebels were on Tuesday seeking the return from Algeria of Muammer Gaddafi’s wife and three children, while hunting down the longtime Libyan strongman and closing in on his hometown Sirte.

Aare Musulumi of Yorubaland, Alhaji Abdulazeez Arisekola Alao, has congratulated Muslim faithful across the country on witnessing the end of Ramadan.

NINE communities in Ikwo local government area of Ebonyi State were weekend overrun by flood as residents were seen relocating to other communities that were affected by the the flood.

Emir of Gwandu, Alhaji Muhammad Bashar, yesterday called for unity and understanding
among Muslims in the country.

A prostitute who was being persuaded to renounce her trade and become a born-again Christian has been arrested by the police in Bauchi State for allegedly trying to burn down the church where members of the Catholic Charismatic Renewal Ministry were trying to make her a member.

Former Management Specialist at the World Bank, Professor Ladipo Adamolekun, has explained reasons why the war against corruption might be difficult to win in Nigerian. He said this would only be possioble when the country begins to punish corrupt persons.

The Osun State Government, yesterday, surprised its workers by approving N19, 001 for the least paid worker in the state.

The contentious National Minimum Wage Act provides for N18;000 minimum.

For Emma Nkwoukwu, a legal practitioner whose wife, Felicia, died in last Friday’s bomb blast at the United Nations House in Abuja, her demise has left a big vacuum in this closely knit nuclear family. Even to grant an interview to a journalist, a small meeting of the family members available had to take place to see who would respond to questions.