By Ifeatu Agbu THE current armed conflict [some call it war] in the Niger Delta is an unnecessary distraction that is neither in the interest of the Federal Government nor the people of the region that have endured many decades of neglect and deprivation.

From the investigations so far, he explained that the Federal Ministry in collaboration with Delta State Ministries of Health and Agriculture found that there is the presence of ASF in some parts of the state.

Vanguard WARRI—The Ijaw Christian Youths Forum (ICYF) in Delta State yesterday appealed to President Umaru Yar’Adua to withdraw troops of the military Joint Task Force (JTF) from troubled Ijaw Gbaramatu Kingdom , and adopt dialogue towards restoration of peace in Delta State.

A Federal high Court sitting in Abuja yesterday issued a fresh order remanding the Group Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Transnational Corporation of Nigeria (Transcorp), Mr. Tom Iseghohi and two others in Kuje prisons till June 22.

GENEVA—Nigeria was dragged before the International Labour Committee on the Application Standards in Geneva yesterday for gross violation of labour standards which has made the workplace unsafe for workers in the country.
It was also reported for failure to file reports at the appropriate time

By Evelyn Usman & Ifeanyi Okolie Tragedy was averted yesterday when the decking of a storey building caved in, in Oworosoki area of Lagos. However, three persons — a mother and her two children — said to have been trapped under the debris for hours before help came, sustained serious injuries.

Our correspondent reports that the entire building wall will collapse soon unless government intervened quickly, as the dilapidated building, made of mud, is the only building standing in the primary school.

GOVERNOR Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State has said that the state government has made policies and implemented programmes that deal frontally with the HIV/AIDS challenges.

THE Lagos State Government has sealed off another six patent medicine stores, two pharmacies and arrested four suspects in Epe area of Lagos even as it said the suspects will soon be arraigned according to the state law.

By Funmi Komolafe Geneva—The President-General of the Trade Union Congress of Nigeria ( TUC), Comrade Peter Esele’s mother is dead. News of her death was broken to the TUC president-General in Geneva yesterday that his mother, Mrs.  Victoria Ebosele, 58, had passed on. Comrade Esele who is leading the TUC delegation to the 98th  International […]