Presi-dent of the Nigerian Labour Congress, NLC, Comrade Abdulwaheed Omar, and other officers of Congress, yesterday, relocated to Lagos, to begin a four-day mass action and picketing of all the offices of the Union Bank of Nigeria Plc, UBN across the country including the Marina Head office, today.

PPARENTLY worried by the endless political crisis rocking the Ogun State Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, the state’s Deputy Governor, Alhaja Salimot Badru, weekend, urged the kinsmen of former President Olusegun Obasanjo, to intervene in the imbroglio that has divided the party.

Ekiti State Government has said President Goodluck Jonathan might have been quoted out of context over a statement credited to him that governors in the South-West who are not members of his party are ‘rascals’.

Wema Bank is leveraging on the gains from the recently concluded transformation process to render quality services to members of the banking public.

The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Dimeji Bankole, yesterday warned politicians contesting elections into various political posts in the country to mind the promises they make to the electorate for the sake of winning the coming elections.

The debate being organized by Imo State Council of Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ, for candidates of the various registered political parties will commence with the governorship candidates on March 3, 2011, at Imo Concorde Hotel, Owerri.

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, and its subsidiary, Pipelines and Product Marketing Company, PPMC, said they have successfully drained over 450,000 litres of premium motor spirit, PMS, or petrol from an oil leak site at Isheri-Olofin along the Iyana Iba-Igando road in Lagos.

China is now a clear leader in the race for Africa’s resources and can be expected to continue developing these interests for the mutual benefit of both Africa as well as China’s surging economy. Its interest varies from infrastructure, mining, banking and oil and gas which Nigeria must take advantage of to develop its vast mineral resources.

HEALTH care services in Anambra State have been crippled, following a month warning strike embarked upon by medical doctors in the state to press home their demand for full implementation of the federal government-approved Consolidated Medical Salary Scale, CONMESS, for doctors.

In partnership with Microsoft and Gem Consulting, the Kaduna State government has commenced a capacity building project for the civil service in the State.

Okafor, the former Nigerian international murdered in cold blood January 6, in Little Elm, Dallas, USA Friday, February 11 received a hero’s farewell as hundreds of Nigerians resident in Dallas and beyond gathered at the Garland Convention Center, Texas to pay their last respect to the slain soccer icon at the Lying-In-State and funeral ceremony.

GOVERNOR Adams Oshiomhole’s Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, in Edo State, weekend, captured another seat in the state House of Assembly by defeating the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and the All Nigeria Peoples Party, ANPP, in the state House of Assembly re-run election, for Akoko Edo Constituency 11, of the state.

Research poll done on MSN by Microsoft released today,* 14 Feb 2011, suggests that many consumers are comfortable with expressing love and flirty feelings via email.

FIVE thousand pipeline surveillance job slots intended for former militants to secure oil facilities in Delta State has pitched former militants in the state against one another, even as members of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, MEND, Urhobo chapter, have vowed to make the state ungovernable if the job slots allotted to them were not increased and given to militant leaders of the area for distribution.

Considering the mounting allegation of corruption against the Judiciary in recent times, the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, has recommended that sanctions against all established cases of misdemeanor by judicial officers should not be limited to administrative sanctions only, insisting that such cases should be referred to appropriate investigative governmental agencies like the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission, ICPC, and the Police for investigation and possible prosecution.