THE Federal Government is today, in Abuja, meeting with leaders of Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, and its Trade Union Congress of Nigeria, TUC’s counterparts, to brief them on the efforts by government towards the implementation of the N18,000 minimum wage.

Officials of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria, FAAN, are in a fix as to how the huge sum of money collected and paid into the organisation’s account found its way into various other accounts for which a ridiculous interest is being paid.

“They have just killed my friend, they have killed my friend, Onochie,” Peterside cried from his house in South Africa.
Okafor was found dead, hanging in his house at Little Elm in Texas Thursday.

As unbelievable as it sounds, Kalahari.com.ng, an online retailing company in the country has announced that no fewer than 65 million Nigerians and counting now throng the online market; leaving offline product companies and crude IT clusters like the computer village not currently enlisted in emalls in the country on the brinks of what has been termed a ‘digital extinction’.

The Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, yesterday, went into hiding to screen the four presidential aspirants that collected the nomination form to run the presidential race on its platform.

The All Nigerian Peoples Party, ANPP, yesterday inaugurated the Presidential and Gubernatorial Screening Committee for the 2011 general elections and is headed by Senator Ahmned Yerima, former governor of Zamfara State.

A Lagos High Court, yesterday, adjourned till January 20, 2011, for hearing of the substantive suit challenging the legality of toll gates on the Lagos-Lekki-Epe Expressway.

Some Governors, senators, members of the House of Representatives, among other politicians, have expressed shock over the withdrawal of Deputy Minority Leader in the Senate, on the platform of Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, Senator Olorunnimbe Mamora, to return to the senate in the next political dispensation.

Head of the Gani Fawehinmi Chambers, Lagos, Mr Mohammed Fawehinmi, said yesterday that there was plan on ground to re-absolve staff of the Chambers after it is finally wound up this weekend.

ON Saturday, January 8, 2011, I listened to two lecturers from Anambra State University, Dr Emeka Nwabunia of Microbiology Department and Dr Arinze Chinwuba of Chemistry Department on a live Rhythm FM 95.5 (Silverbird) station programme.

THE Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, yesterday, wrote the political parties warning them against the violation of the Electoral Act in the choice of their candidates for the various posts.

IN this season of politics and bountiful harvests, many political giants are becoming political orphans who are in need of shelter. Better put, they are becoming political nomads wandering the landscape in search of better pastures.

BEFORE he was elected President of South Africa on April 22, 2009, Jacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma suffered political humiliation and persecution so much so that, four years before he became President, his political career had been written off by many pundits and a greater number of the South African population.

The Timi Alaibe Campaign Organisation has raised alarm ofover an alleged plan by the Bayelsa State government to frame up their principal, the Labour Party governorship aspirant following last Friday’s violent attack on his supporters at his Opokuma country home, in which two persons were killed and six others injured.

DELTA State Governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan, has appealed to Deltans to join hands with him in moving the state forward, saying that his desire to serve was not to accumulate wealth because he was already wealthy before coming into politics.