Chief Executive Officer, Bio-Organics Nutrients Systems Limited, Ibafo, Ogun State, Dr. Kenny Acholonu, has urged all foods, beverage producers and flour millers to fortify their products with certified vitamins and mineral premixes to ensure healthy growth and reduce the prevalence of micro-nutrient malnutrition among Nigerians, especially women and children.

THE Niger Delta Youth Movement, NDYM, has condemned what it called moves to blackmail President Goodluck Jonathan from exercising his basic constitutional right in next year’s general elections.

NON-ACADEMIC Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions, NASU, has accused some state governments of outrageous hike in Pay-As-You-Earn, PAYE, tax deductions in their bid to make up for the shortfall in monthly allocations.

Policemen attached to Dopemu Division in Lagos have arrested a 23-year-old lady who allegedly stabbed a 30-year-old man to death following the deceased’s alleged attempt to rape her.

Commercial activities yesterday came to a standstill in Bauchi as over 100 pensioners of NIPOST took to the streets to embark on what they termed “a peaceful demonstration” over non-payment of their pension for the last 4 years.

STRIKING lecturers of the three Delta State Polytechnics of Ozoro, Ogwashi-Uku, Otefe-Oghara and the three Colleges of Education of Agbor, Warri and Mosogar, have expressed concern over the lingering industrial dispute, which had forced students home.

AS families and friends await the release of the four journalists who were, on Sunday, abducted by unknown gunmen in Abia State, three eminent Nigerian clerics have condemned the kidnapping of the journalists and called on the Federal Government to do everything possible to secure their release.

Former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar has called on the nation’s security forces to swiftly rescue the four Journalists who were kidnapped last weekend

PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan, yesterday, re-assured Nigerians that his administration has the political will to provide adequate power supply to the nation.

Barely seven days of the endorsement of President Goodluck Jonathan by the stakeholders and leaders of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party PDP in Benue State as their Presidential candidate at the forthcoming general elections, the President’s posters have flooded major towns in the state

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, has arrested, for drug trafficking at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, a telecommunications manager who said she was desperate to save her sick mother from death.

Secre-tary, Political Committee of Arewa Consultative Forum, ACF, Alhaji Abdulrahman Mohammed, has been forced to resign his position following his insistence that President Goodluck Jonathan should contest the 2011 election.

Barring any further obstacle in the way of the providers, a new executive private lounge is expected to spring up at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, as one had already taken off at the Lagos airport for relaxation of passengers and non-passengers alike

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has denied ever owing the three tiers of the government N450 billion as being orchestrated by the government

The Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, has donated relief materials worth about N15 million to some
victims of the ethno-religious violence that rocked the Plateau State capital earlier this year.