Federal Operations Unit of Zone A of the Nigerian Customs Service have seized contraband goods worth N1.4 billion between January and November 2010.

A lawyer and his client have been arraigned before an Ikeja High Court on a 9-count charge of conspiracy, forgery and attempt to defraud a company, Junot Construction to the tune of N230 million.

CHAIRMAN of the Committee inaugurated by the Delta State Government, last year, to resettle victims of the 2009 military bombardment of Gbaramatu kingdom by the Joint Task Force, JTF, in the Niger Delta, Barrister Kingsley Otuaro, yesterday, called on the state government to come to the rescue of the people.

Two affiliate members of the Akwa Ibom State Council of the Nigerian Labour Congress are feared dead and more than 10 badly injured following a ghastly motor accident that involved the picketing team that went to check some workers who defied the union instructions on Wednesday.

The stage is set for the Titanic battle between the Super Falcons of Nigeria and the Indomitable Lionesses of Cameroun as both sides square up for the final ticket of the 2010 African Women Championship in South Africa.

ANAMBRA State government has assembled major stakeholders in the state, including traditional rulers, presidents-general of the various town unions, leaders of thought and women and youth leaders in Awka, the state capital, to make inputs into the 2011 budget.

ACTIVITIES were grounded in federal and state-owned establishments in Enugu State Wednesday as workers joined the nationwide strike to compel the Federal Government to implement the N18,000 new minimum wage.

Workers in Jigawa State have defiled the three-day nation wide warning strike as virtually all civil servants at all levels reported to their respective offices against the directive of both the national and state bodies of the NLC.

Ahead of the yuletide, the Federal Road Safety Corps, FRSC, has called on transport companies nationwide to conform with the Corps’ stipulated safety standard by ensuring the use of passengers manifest, for easy identification and location of relations of accidents victims.

The intra -party crisis rocking the Kano State chapter of People Democratic Party, PDP, took a frightening dimension midweek as a splinter group led by Alhaji Yusuf Baita has threatened to drag the party to court if Dr. Rabi’u Kwankwaso, former governor, imposed himself as the governorship candidate of the party in 2011 gubernatorial race.

Monday judgment of the Federal High Court Lagos, has amplified the unconstitutionality of the last amendment which the National Assembly carried out on the 1999 constitution.

A Lagos lawyer, Francis Moneke, has dragged the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, before a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, over what he termed fraudulent exploitation of Nigerian youths.

PEOPLES Democratic Party (PDP) Presidential aspirant Dr. Bukola Saraki says he is not in the presidential contest for fun or using the campaign to negotiate a seat for himself in the Senate.

Samson Siasia’s wish to continue as Heartland of Owerri coach will not materialise, as he has been told by the Nigeria Football Federation to concentrate on the Eagles job.

The much publicised unveiling of new Eagles coach, Samson Siasia by the Nigeria Football Federation planned for yesterday in Abuja could not take place afterall, no thanks to the nationwide warning strike called by the Nigeria Labour Congress to press home its demand for N18,000 minimum wage.