NEWSPAPER headlines have blazoned threats from the Nigeria Labour Congress and the Trade Union Congress to shut down Nigeria today with a warning strike over a new national minimum wage.

With a flurry of endorsements by the Ime-Obi (Inner Caucus), Ohanaeze General Assembly, Ohanaeze Youth Council, OYC and Aka-Ikenga, the Amb. Raph Uwechue-led National Executive Committee of the apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, will enjoy a two-year term extension.

ARMED policemen yesterday averted what could have resulted into a bloody clash between factional leaders of the Labour Party in Edo State and their supporters, when a faction of the party led by a former chairman of Oredo Local Government Council of the state, Mr Sam Omede, stormed the state secretariat of the party calling for the removal of the embattled state chairman, Dr John Ogbeide

THE Federated Niger Delta Ijaw Communities, FNDIC, yesterday, called on government and its agencies to ward off a repeat of the gory Warri-Ijaw/Itsekiri bloodbath of 1997 and 2003 by addressing the remote causes of the crisis, which are still looming large even as the 2011 general elections draw near.

EDUCATIONAL reforms are geared towards development, coming from the basic conviction that meaningful changes can be made in a nation through meticulous engineering of the educational process.

The Conference of Nigeria Political Parties, CNPP, yesterday, tasked the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to conduct credible polls in 2011, insisting that the dominance of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the politics of the state is drawing to a close

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A group of 4,000 former militants who collect their monthly allowance of N65, 000 from a commercial bank on Olu Obasanjo Road [names withheld] in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, has petitioned the state Commissioner of Police over alleged fraudulent deductions from their allowances by the bank manager.

BY the mid 20th Century, racial discrimination in the United States of America remained entrenched and seemed intractable. But just a little after the turn of the same century, racism in America had regressed to the point of permitting the election of a Black man as the president.

AHEAD of the primaries of the Labour Party, LP, in Ondo State, its State Chairman yesterday ruled out any automatic tickets for any political office holders who are seeking a re-election under the party