SENIOR Staff Association of Electricity and Allied Companies, SSAEAC, weekend, petitioned the Federal Government, insisting that all subsisting labour issues such as ‘casual workers in the employment of Power Holding Company of Nigeria, PHCN, outstanding salary increase of 137% and the 56% increase recently approved for public servants including government parastatals, are resolved, before the issue of severance benefits as part of the ongoing reforms in the power sector could addressed.

Federal Government’s decision to concession the nation’s ports has led to an appreciable increase in the revenue accruable to it, Managing Director of the Nigerian Port Authority, NPA, Engr. Omar Suleiman, has said.

April general elections is a liberation struggle for the people of Kwara who are locked between voting for the progressives in Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, and keeping the reactionaries in power, Ekiti State Governor Kayode Fayemi said, weekend.

National Chairman of All Progressive Grand Alliance, APGA, Mr. Victor Umeh, weekend, debunked claims in some quarters that the party had adopted President Goodluck Jonathan as its presidential candidate in this year’s general election.

CHAIRMAN of Anambra State PDP, Chief Emma Nweze, has refuted the sacking of the National Vice Chairman of the party, South East, Chief Olisa Metuh, by a renegade faction of the party in Anambra.

Nigeria’s economic managers are fond of reeling out economic indices and informing the country that the economy is doing well. Very often, they adjudge the economy as doing well with economic growth rate.

CHAIRMAN of the Itsekiri Regional Development Council, IRDC, in Warri, Delta state, Mr. Mofe Pirah, yesterday, expressed regret that oil giant, Chevron Nigeria Limited, has refused to allow thousands of eligible workers at its Escravos tank farm to go out into the Ugborodo community to get registered in the voters registration exercise recently extended by only two days across 11 states in the country.

The Bankers’ Committee and the Cross River State Government (CRSG) has commenced discussion on partnership to finance key infratrusture needs of the state, estimated to cost $833.3 million (N124.995 billion)

AMIDST contradictory claims on the authority to publish the list of candidates for the forthcoming general elections, the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, yesterday invited the general public to scrutinize the eligibility of the nominees submitted to it by the political parties.

TWO children of a policeman, Saturday night, lost their lives in a fire incident in Port Harcourt, Rivers State. The state Police Public Relations Officer, Dr Rita Inoma Abbey, gave the name of the policeman as Sergeant Maxwell Udoh, adding that he is attached to Aku/STB in the state capital.

NATIONAL Pension Commission, PENCOM, has issued a March 31 deadline to employers that are yet to submit copies of employees’ Life Insurance Certificates for the current year to the Commission and Employees’ Pension Fund Administrators, PFAs, to do so to avoid its attendant repercussions.

Without enabling laws to regulate economic reform and development in the country, politicians will continue to shortchange Nigerians with unattainable manifesto, the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, has said.

The altercations over the promotion of President of Appeal Court, Justice Ayo Salami, to the Supreme Court yesterday attracted more reactions with the registered opposition political parties condemning the planned elevation by the Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Justice Aloysius Katsina-Alu, which they described as an unholy offer.

WORKERS in the nation’s downstream sector today begin an industrial action, code named “Work- to- rule-action” across the nation.

Investors in the Nigerian stock market , last week lost a total of N189 .5 billion or 2.17 per cent from their investment as the market capitalisation declined from N8.743 trillion recorded penultimate week to close N8.554 trillion.