TRADE Union Congress of Nigeria (TUC) has faulted government’s planned privatisation of the Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN), declaring that a strategic partnership whereby a core investor has 51 percent equity share while government retains 49 percent remains the best option for the nation.

The Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN Chieftain, Senator Olorunimbe Mamora, Senate Minority, at a recent Executive/Legislative parley in Lagos, opened up on some national issues, the victory of Governor Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti State and Lagos politics in 2011 as it affects Governor Babatunde Fashola.

The Minister of Tourism and national Orientation, Alhaji Abubakar Sodiq, has re-iterated the importance of tourism to the country’s economy.

Former international Idah Peterside has spoken against Samson Siasia’s intention to hire Dutchman Simon Kalika as his assistant for the Super Eagles job, and warned the new Super Eagles coach to be careful of the monster he may unleash on Nigerian football.

LIKE a recurring decimal, the fragile peace in the city of Ibadan was again ruptured by fresh violence that erupted between the two factions of the National Union of Road Transport Workers, Oyo State Chapter.

Home-based players in the Super Eagles have been scheduled to depart for Iran Monday, and would be joined by their foreign_based counterparts in Tehran same day.

Even as Nigeria remains the top destination for Africa-bound flows, accounting for nearly half of remittances sent to the continent, remittance flows to Sub-Saharan Africa will reach US$21.5 billion this year after a small decrease in 2009 due to the global financial crisis, according to Migration and Remittances Factbook 2011, a World Bank publication that tracks documented private transfers of funds and migratory patterns around the world.

A mild drama ensued at the Presidential Wing of the Murtala Muhammed Airport, Ikeja, Lagos, Monday, as former President, Olusegun Obasanjo, was attacked by a middle-aged man who pounced on him inside his car.

A cleric, Pastor Sam Adeyemi, Senior Pastor of Day Star Christian Centre, has said that the nation is passing through numerous challenges because the present crop of Nigerian leaders lack vision unlike their counterparts in the developed countries.

Chief Kola Daisi and his company, National Sport Lottery Plc, NSL, have initiated a contempt proceeding against the Managing Director of Spring Bank, Mrs. Olushola Ayodele and the bank, before a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, for alleged contemptuous publication they cause to be published in connection with a suit before the court.

THE Lagos state police command has continued to re-affirm its zero tolerance for crime in the state with the recent recovery of three AK 47 assault riffles and 630 live ammunition loaded in 20 magazines from fleeing armed robbers. Venue was LASU/ Isheri road Igando and time was 8.30pm.

THE opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Ondo State and the State Government yesterday traded words over the N13 billion the present administration in the state claimed it has spent on road projects in the last one and half years.

A FEDERAL High Court sitting in Lagos, yesterday, held that the amendments recently carried out on the 1999 Constitution by the National Assembly cannot become law and operational without the assent of the President.

THE kidnappers, who abducted the former Chief Medical Director, CMD, of the University of Benin Teaching Hospital, UBTH, Prof. Eugene Okpere, are demanding the sum of N100million before he could secure his freedom.

YESTERDAY’S judgment of Federal High Court Lagos which affirmed that the last constitution amendment was inchoate until it is assented to by the President has vindicated those who hold that position.