ABUJA-ORGANISED Labour in the nation’s health sector has petitioned President Goodluck Jonathan, urging him to withhold assent on the National Health Bill.

ABUJA-A bill prohibiting marriage of same sex Tuesday scaled the second reading at the Senate, just as senators described the act as ungodly, morally and religiously unacceptable.

The National Human Rights Commission, NHRC and Lagos lawyer, Ms Carol Ajie, have welcomed the progress recorded in the investigation of alleged gang rape of an unidentified female victim at Abia State University, Uturu.

BENIN CITY- THE faction of the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, in Edo State, led by the South South Vice-Chairman of the party, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu, has passed a vote of no confidence on the Deputy Governor of the state, Dr. Pius Odubu.

Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Minister, Senator Bala Mohammed, has called on parents, guardians and other care-givers in Abuja to make available their children for the ongoing house-to-house anti-polio immunisation.

The National Association of Nigeria Students, NANS, has appealed to the Federal Government and Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, to resolve their disagreement in the interest of Nigerian students and future of the nation.

BENIN CITY-Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, SAN, has tasked Nigerian media practitioners, on the need to subject news items for publication to test, as to whether such information should be shared about the country.

ABUJA-PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan Tuesday expressed optimism that Nigerians have the capacity to transform the country into a world-class economy, but prescribed the building of strong institutions in all sectors of the economy as the antidotes needed to heal her current socio-economic and political woes

WARRI-Chevron Nigeria Limited operations and the multi-billion naira Escravos-Gas-To-Liquid, EGTL, were, Tuesday, shut by Ugborodo protesters, who protested alleged non-implementation of agreements reached with the leadership of the oil company in Warri South-West Local Government Area of Delta State.