Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), may soon commence investigations into allegations of contract inflation leveled against some top officials of the National Planning Commission (NPC) by some concerned workers of the Commission. The concerned workers attached to the procurement section alleged that the contract inflation was to the tune of over N105 Million and in total disregard to contract award procedures.

Police authorities in Lagos State may have commenced fresh investigations into allegations of attack made against the Seme Command of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), by the Editor-in-chief of a Lagos-based Tentacle magazine, Mr. Innocent Chukwu, editor-in-chief.

THE insecurity of oil workers in the Niger Delta region heightened Sunday night as no fewer than eight workers of Exxonmobil were kidnapped in Oso Gas and Condensate Complex, Akwa Ibom.

African champions, the Super Falcons of Nigeria returned to a tumultuous welcome Monday afternoon, only to be conveyed in a rickety old truck that could best be used in conveying cows. The journey fro the international airport to the local wing was done on the dirty truck.

The Association for Sustainable Development of Bayelsa, ASDB, weekend, lauded Bayelsa State Governor, Timipre Sylva, for ensuring stable electricity supply in the State.

A forty year old man, Mr. Babatunde Olawole Cole, has been apprehended by men of the Cross River State Security Services, SSS, for operating an illegal satellite campus for the University of Calabar.

FORMER Deputy Governor of Edo State and chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Rev. Peter Obadan, has described as unreasonable, the statement credited to the state chairman of the party, Chief Dan Orbih, that the Governor Adams Oshiomhole-led government had performed below expectations in the past two years.

THE upsurge in unfair labour practices such as casualisation of workers, contract staffing and refusal to allow workers to join unions especially in the petroleum, telecom and banking sectors, were identified as major concerns by labour leaders and activists in Nigeria as well as Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, FES.

Newly appointed Eagles’ coach, Samson Siasia at the weekend bid Heartland of Owerri goodbye to concentrate on the assignment of rebuilding the national team.

FOR its commitment towards taking up the challenge of defeating pneumonia in the country, the Federal government last week recieved commendation of the UNICEF Deputy Representative of UNICEF in Nigeria, Mr. Jacques Boyer.