As part of measures to re-position for profit maximisation, Air Nigeria has embarked on another round of restructuring which saw the duo of Engr. Christopher Kwasau and Mrs. Temitope Fagbemi emerging heads of the Directorate of Engineering & Maintenance and Human Resources respectively.

INDICATIONS have emerged that had proper explanations been made to Nigerians, the mixed reactions generated by the proposed N10 billion Golden Jubilee budget wouldn’t have occurred.

Judiciary Staff Union of Nigeria, JUSUN, weekend threatened to resume the strike it suspended on 21 June 2010, in Abia, Anambra, Ebonyi and Enugu states 16 August should the governors fail to implement the consolidated judiciary salary structure, ONJUSS, before the deadline

Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr. Mohammed Bello Adoke, SAN, said yesterday that lawyers could play an active role in the promotion and protection of personal and social rights if they practise their profession with decency and excellence.

THE Deputy National President of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, Mr Onikolease Irabor, weekend, declared his intension to run for the senatorial seat in Edo Central senatorial district in the forthcoming 2011 general elections.
He cited what he described as the disappointing representation of the people of the area in the Senate as reason for his decision.

Tuomo Federated Community in Burutu Local Government Area of Delta State has abandoned all forms of ancestral worship in the community to accept Jesus Christ.

Worried by the rising cases of kidnapping in Nigeria, the Chairman of Nigeria’s Governors Forum, Governor Bukola Saraki of Kwara State, has urged the federal government to compel the GSM operators in the country to install gadgets around strategic areas of Nigeria that will indicate where a call is being made so as to settle the problem of kidnapping once and for all.

A proJonathan youth group, Youths Ask for GoodLuck, YAG, yesterday in Benin, Edo State, said that President Goodluck Jonathan cannot be intimidated in his bid to contest the 2011 presidency, along with former President Ibrahim Babangida, if he decides to run.

IMO State Governor, Ikedi Ohakim, and former Minister of Justice, Prince Bola Ajibola, yesterday, asked President Jonathan Goodluck for devoting attention to possible re-election in 2011 instead of solving some of the basic problems facing the country.

Major policy decisions may be announced today by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, as the National Chairman of the Commission, Prof Attahiru Jega swears in 19 Resident Electoral Commissioners yesterday

SENATOR Francis Arthur Nzeribe said yesterday that as the nation prepares for the 2011 Presidential election, it has become imperative for the Niger Delta Region of the South South geo-political zone of the country to produce the president through the incumbent, Goodluck Jonathan for a period of eight years.

PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan, yesterday, signed the Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria, AMCON, Bill into law, saying that the legal establishment of the corporation was in keeping with his Administration’s determination to ensure the stability of the nation’s financial sector and stimulate national economic recovery.

PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan has charged people of the South East Nigeria to look inwards for solutions to perceived threats to the extinction of Igbo language in the next fifty years

MINISTER of Information and Communications, Professor Dora Akunyili, yesterday alleged that thugs hired by former Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, governor, Prof Chukwuma Soludo, disrupted arrangement she made for the reception of her guests at her elder sister’s burial because he believed she was instrumental to his failure in the 6 February 2010, governorship election in the state.

Bayelsa State government, yesterday described as ‘misplaced fears,’ claims in some quarters that Governor Timipre Sylva’s tenure will terminate in 2011, saying that the Federal High Court judgment in Jos, on the tenure of Governor Olusegun Oni of Ekiti State, has nothing to do with Bayelsa governorship poll.