MEDICAL students of Abia State University Teaching Hospital, ABSUTH, who have been out of class room for upwards of six months on account of the protracted strike embarked upon by doctors, have been lamenting their fate, saying they were now “frustrated”.

Ekiti State Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi, has said the state government does not have enough resources to pay the N18,000 minimum wage recently approved by the National Council of State, saying the state government would re-negotiate with the labour leaders on the acceptable minimum wage to be paid the state workers.

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, is set to approve the guidelines for aspirants seeking political offices on its ticket on Wednesday.

Lagos State Government, last Friday, lived up to its promise as it approved the payment of over N360 million to offset the salaries of medical doctors in Lagos public hospitals across the state who recently called off their 14 weeks old strike over agitation for better welfare packages among others.

The Nigeria Union of Local Government Employees, NULGE, Anambra State chapter, weekend defied the state government’s plea to reverse the suspension order placed on some of its executive members.

President Goodluck Jonathan, weekend, said the development of tourism and culture in the country was imperative to enhance the economic potential of Nigeria.

The Sokoto State government will soon commence the building of 1,000 housing units to ameliorate the plight of victims of flooding which ravaged some local government areas of the state.

These obviously are not the best of times for Aerocontractors which, by all intent and purposes, had been the flagship of the nation’s commercial flight operations.

Standard Organization of Nigeria (SON) has, in collaboration with Ashaka Cement Plc, organised a workshop to sensitize block builders on producing quality sandcrete blocks that will prevent building collapse.

Investors on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) last week lost a reasonable value of their investment on stocks, as equities value represented by the market capitalisation depreciated by N111.25 billion.