Over 500 patients received treatment for various ailments during the flag-off of the free medical treatment organized at Umuohiagu Health Centre, by indigenes of the rural community in Ngor Okpala local government area of Imo State.

PENSIONERS in Oyo State who struggled in vain to get their arrears of the 142 per cent pension increase paid to them by the last administration can now heave a sigh of relief as Governor Abiola Ajimobi has approved the payment.

A 52-year-old police officer, Sgt. Alfred Kejawa, was, yesterday, arraigned before a Lagos State High Court, Igbosere, on a one-count charge of murder.

The Court of Appeal sitting in Lagos, yesterday, adjourned till November 1, 2011 for judgment in the appeal by Labour Party, challenging the decision of National Assembly/ legislative House Election petition tribunal, Lagos, which upheld the election of Mrs. Oluremi Tinubu for Lagos Central Senatorial District.

Ebonyi State College of Education, Ikwo, Thursday, suspended five lecturers for their alleged role in sexually abusing students and extortion through illegal sale of handouts.

Utuama family in Otu-Jeremi, headquarters of Ughelli South Local Government Area of Delta State, yesterday, said they would not abandon the burial of their late son, Mr. Oliver Utuama, to a third party.

FEAR of the unknown has gripped top officials of Olabisi Onabanjo University, OOU, and Moshood Abiola Polytechnic, Abeokuta, MAPOLY, as two panels of visitation set up by Governor Ibikunle Amosun on the two institutions submitted their reports and allegedly indicting them.

No fewer than 1,700 staff of Aluminum Smelter Company of Nigeria, ALSCON, in Ikot Abasi, Akwa Ibom State, have protested against what they described as prolonged and insufferable injustice and discrimination against Nigerians in the company by the Russian management.