IN their effort to maintain decency and differentiate Christians in society, the Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, Warri South Chapter, Delta State, has planned a rally to protest against indecent dressing among men and women and dirty environment.

Paw-Paw’s screen twin, Chinedu Ikedieze popularly known as Aki was one of the distinguished Nigerians who were accorded recognition last Thursday by the Federal Government. A gesture which generated controversy as many stakeholders in the movie sector blamed the government for failing to extend the same treatment to the other actor.

WORRIED by the alarming rate of unfair labour practices in the Petroleum industry and its threat to industrial unrest, the National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, NUPENG, has petitioned the Minister of Petroleum Resources, urging him to address the issues to calm the restiveness in the sector and avoid industrial unrest.

THE Edo State Task Force Committee on Anti-Pipeline Vandalisation, has arrested eight tankers involved in alleged illegal bunkering, just as it warned community leaders to desist from conniving with those involved in the illegal business to avoid arrest.

AS a result of the poor quality of teachers being produced by the nation’s Colleges of Education as exemplified by their lack of in-depth knowledge of subject contents, the Governing Council members of Adeniran Ogunsanya College of Education (AOCOED) have been urged to review the teachers education programme of the college and give premium to Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in order to enable the student-teachers of the college compete with their counterparts anywhere in the world.

They were caught by the long arm of the law as represented by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC and so Omodara Adedapo Oluseye, 27 and Adesuyi Ayodeji Adedapo 27 have been arraigned at a Federal High Court in Lagos which has ordered that they be remanded in prison custody. They are standing trial on a two-count charge of fraud and obtaining money by false pretence.

AN implosion is brewing in the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, over lingering controversial zoning of 2011 presidency with conflicting interests intensifying efforts to gain upper hand even as the presidency was said to be displeased over the party’s Board of Trustees, BOT, and National Caucus positions on zoning.

THERE are laws guiding the operations of the Nigeria Football Association (illegally known as the Nigeria Football Federation). The foundational law is Act (Decree) 101 of 1992 which is still in our law books. This is the only national law on Nigerian football and it calls the body running football the Nigeria Football Association.

Unless the federal ministry of labour acts speedily, its employees in Geneva, Switzerland may turn destitutes.
A Nigerian resident in Geneva contacted Labour Vanguard and expressed concern about the state of the employees.

THE Presidency, yesterday, distanced itself from speculations that the Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Deziani Allison-Madueke, had been tipped for removal ahead of next year’s general election, just as President Goodluck Jonathan, effected a minor cabinet reshuffle.

The embattled former Director General of the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) Prof.Ndidi Okereke- Onyiuke Wednesday denied that billions of Niara is missing at the NSE under her watch.

IT was a day of horror in Abuja and Lagos, Wednesday. Also, tragedy struck last Sunday when a woman faced a midday horror, with her four children drowned when the boat they were travelling in capsized along the Opobo/Kono waterways.

EMBATTLED former Director General of the Nigerian Stock Exchange, NSE, Prof.Ndidi Okereke- Onyiuke, yesterday, denied that billions of naira were missing at the NSE under her watch.

Austin Eguavoen’s experimental Super Eagles team were beaten 2-1 by South Korea in Wednesday’s international friendly in Seoul.

Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan of Delta State has directed Chevron Nigeria Limited, CNL, and the Itsekiri Regional Development Council, IRDC, to henceforth recognise Aja-Omaetan community as separate and impacted in the Dibi Field operation area.