After over one month of row, Benue State government has finally agreed to implement the disputed salary increment being demanded by striking Academic Staff Union of Universities ASUU, Benue State University chapter, in line with the 2009 agreement signed between the National ASUU and the Federal Government

A five-member panel of the Supreme Court yesterday promised to hear and give instant judgment on September 23, this year, in an appeal filed by the incumbent Speaker of the Delta State House of Assembly, Hon Martin Okonta, seeking to review the verdict of the Abuja Court of Appeal which removed him from office.

TRADE Union Congress of Nigeria, TUC, yesterday, expressed concern over non-release of the four members of Lagos State Council of Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ, including its Chairman, Alhaji Wahab Oba and their driver, four days after they were abducted by unknown gunmen in Abia State.

Two friends were, yesterday, arraigned at a Senior Magistrate’s Court, Apapa, on a three-count charge of felony, causing bodily harm and attempted murder.

The Embassy may be deluged by requests from stranded Nigerians and those who have been victimized by recent laws and regulation which may not be their fault. My charge is to look into every case and seek the best way to ameliorate the situation , save the citizen and at the sametime make sure the laws of the host nation are respected.

THE suspended chairman of Akoko Edo Local Government Area of Edo state, Chief Johnson Emasealu, who went to court to challenge his suspension by Governor Adams Oshiomhole, yesterday, raised an alarm over alleged plot by the state government to manipulate the judiciary with a view to denying him justice.

WITH the dumping of the zoning system by the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the country, the Delta Central Forum, DCF, has joined other groups in the state in calling on Chief Kenneth Gbagi to fully join the gubernatorial race to Government House, Asaba.

AS Nigeria continued to battle with the dwindling standard of education, parents have been identified as a major factor in tackling the problem as they have an incomparable privilege and responsibility to determine both direction and how far a child goes.

The presentation of the amendments to the 1999 constitution by the Speakers of the state Houses of Assembly to the leadership of the National Assembly would be made on Monday, Vanguard has learnt.

IMAGINE how safe life would be in Lagos if commercial bus drivers stop drinking ogogoro and segbe(locally distilled gin drinks). And imagine how safe the roads would be if drivers were educated enough to attend mandatory driving schools.

The lingering feud at the Nigeria French Language Village (NFLV) where academic and non-academic staff are demanding for the removal of the Director-General, a situation which has grounded the system, is causing serious concern to the Minister of Education, Professor Ruqayyatu Ahmed Rufai.

FOR a long time, informal sector workers who constitute the greater number of workers in Nigeria, had no umbrella body to propagate, promote and defend issues affecting them. Their activities and operations were seen un-coordinated. All that could be a thing of the past with the birth of the Federation of Informal Workers, FIWON.

WHEN the Police Service Commission, PSC, restored the rank of Mallam Nuhudeen Ribadu to an Assistant Inspector General of Police, the decision was applauded as justice. Ribadu was demoted. The PSC stated that his rise did not follow due processes.

SENATE President, David Mark said, yesterday, the solution to the increasing wave of kidnapping and general insecurity in the South East lay in government declaring a state of emergency in Abia and any other state where it is rampant.

The Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Raji Fasola (SAN) recently inaugurated a new Governing Council for the Adeniran Ogunsanya College of Education, Otto/Ijanikin. The new Governing Council is headed by Mrs. Adedamola Akran.