The Nigerian Army weekend promoted officers from the ranks of Major to Colonels, with over 200 officers in Army formations across the country elevated to the next rank.

BENIN CITY-THE Benin Electricity Distribution Company, a subsidiary of the Power Holding Company of Nigeria, PHCN, has lamented the destruction of 182 sub-stations in the past six months to vandals in the country.

SENATE President David Mark said, Monday, that if the country must witness rapid economic growth and meet its Vision 20:2020, there was urgent need for an overhauling of the aviation sector.

AN Appeal Court sitting in Ibadan, yesterday up-turned the judgment of the Election Petition Tribunal that confirmed the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Senator Hosea Agboola, winner of the election for Oyo North Senatorial District.

Nineteen days into the industrial action embarked upon by organized labour to protest Ebonyi State Government’s refusal to implement the new minimum wage for workers in the state, banks yesterday decided to join the strike.

A pressure group, South-East Revival Group, SERG, has insisted on an alleged plot to remove the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF, Chief Anyim Pius Anyim, from office under the guise of zoning within the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.

IMMEDIATE past Governor of Oyo State, Otunba Adebayo Alao-Akala has faulted the efforts of his successor at bringing succour to the victims of the 26 August flood that ravaged Ibadan, the state capital.

Ahead of the October 22 local government election in Lagos State, hundreds of aggrieved members of the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, yesterday, stormed the party secretariat in Ogba, Lagos State House of Assembly, Alausa, and took to the major streets in Isolo Local Government Area to protest alleged imposition of candidates.

ACTIVITIES were Monday crippled at the national secretariat of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, as the national leadership of the party literarily relocated to the Court of Appeal, venue of the Presidential Election Tribunal, in solidarity with President Goodluck Jonathan.

Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State, Monday, tasked Nigerians, particularly judges and lawyers to guide jealously the rule of law for the survival of the nation’s democracy.

Imo State Government has extolled the leadership of Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, in the state, for suspending the eight-day-old industrial action over the non-implementation of the N18,000 minimum wage.

Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Monday, denied any involvement in setting up Mainstreet Bank Limited as a bridge bank to assume the deposits, liabilities and assets of Afribank Nigeria Plc.