Ten militants of South wing MEND, formerly coordinated by militant leader, Young Shall Grow, yesterday issued a 7-day ultimatum to the National Coordinator of the Amnesty programme, Chief Timi Alibe, to ensure improvement in their welfare.

MANAGING Director of Verdant Zeal Communications Limited, Mr. Tunji Olugbodi, has been nominated as Fellow of the Advertising Practitioners Council of Nigeria, APCON.

Aerocontractors, yesterday, raised an alarm over the circulation of an SMS alleging that its aircraft were not airworthy.

PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan has told the National Chairman of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Dr. Okwesilieze Nwodo, that if the party fails to resolve the lingering crisis in the South-West, the 2011 general elections will be adversely affected in the zone

THE unfolding political quagmire in the family of the governors of the thirty-six States of the Federation was yesterday nipped in the bud, with the governors unanimously rejecting the Ogun State governor, Gbenga Daniel who was last week named the Chairman of the forum and asked the Chairman of the Forum, Dr. Bukola Saraki of Kwara state to continue.

NATIONAL Union of Civil Engineering, Construction, Furniture and Wood Workers, NUCECFWW, has called on government at all levels to lay emphasis on job creation and infrastructural development to reduce the army of unemployed Nigerians, especially youths, who are now willing tools for all sorts of crimes.

The Federal Government has approved over N31 billion for various contracts for power projects, yesterday.

WIFE of the Chairman of the Presidential Advisory Committee and former Defence Minister, Senator Daisy Danjuma, yesterday, described as “wicked and untrue”, rumours that she had decided to pursue her 2011 senatorial ambition in Taraba State, home of her husband, rather than Edo State, her ancestral home

Ekiti State Governor, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, has dismissed the resolution of the lower chamber of the National Assembly directing the Federal Government to withhold allocation to the Local Governments in the state, saying the resolution was a sharp contrast with the Supreme Court judgement over the withdrawal of allocation to Lagos State.

Covenant University Chancellor, Dr. David Oyedepo has blamed lack of applicable knowledge for the suffering of the people, and called for a bold review of the curriculum to address real life problems.