The political tension that gripped Enugu State since the past few weeks following INEC’s recommendation to the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP at the national level to conduct fresh congresses in Enugu has heightened.

NATIONAL Union of Textile, Garment and Tailoring Workers of Nigeria, NUTGWN have faulted the recent including former military Heads of State in the remuneration package approved for ex-leaders by Senators.

ALL things being equal and in no distance future, there would be an Act of the National Assembly making it mandatory for government at all levels to cater for the plights of the senior citizens in particular and on social welfare in general across the country.

Residents of Makurdi are now living in fear following reports of uncommon happenings at the mountainous Mkomon community in Kwande Local Government Area of Benue State where a volcanic eruption claimed two lives while property worth millions of Naira have also been destroyed.

FEW days ago, stakeholders in the media industry gathered in Lagos at one-day roundtable on “Working and Welfare Situation of Journalists in Nigeria.”

As the Court of Appeal, Ibadan reserved judgment in the appeal filed by Engr Rauf Aregbesola, the gubernatorial candidate of the Action Congress, AC in the 2007 governorship election against the victory of the incumbent, Governor Olagunsoye Oyinlola of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, the appellate court was expected to unravel series of issues pleaded by the parties before the court.

It is exactly 15 years that renowned rights activist, Mr. Ken Saro Wiwa, was hung by the military government of the late Gen. Sani Abacha and activists are not allowing the day pass by without eulogising him.

THE nation’s fragile economy, yesterday, suffered a hitch as most of the critical sectors of the economy such as the banks, power, petroleum, ports and others were shut down in full compliance with directives of organised Labour to compel the Federal Government to implement the N18,000 new Minimum Wage

More facts emerged yesterday over the recent illegal importation of arms into the country which were intercepted at the Apapa port as the State Security Service, SSS, revealed that both the alleged consignee and agent of the merchant of death have been apprehended.

The Police yesterday, explained before an Abuja High Court sitting in Wuse, why it failed to execute the warrant of arrest issued against the former Inspector General of police, Mr. Ogbonnaya Onovo, insisting that the said order was made in vacuum