“THANK God I have been registered. It is not easy,” Mrs. A. Agbo, a mid-aged housewife gleefully announced to onlookers as she displayed her voters’ card. Her palpable elation stemmed from her being listed in the ongoing voters’ registration exercise last Friday, after one week of tortuous visits and wait at the lone registration centre in the locality estimated to have about 10,000 adults.

IJAW leaders of Thought in Warri Federal Constituency have called on the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, and relevant authorities to probe the voters registration exercise in the three Warri local government areas, alleging that foreigners were mobilized to register in Warri.

OVER two Million members of the National Union of Road Transport Workers, NURTW, have keyed-into the Contributory Pension Scheme, CPS, which is a fall-out of the Pension Reform Act, PRA, 2004.

chools across the country resumed academic session on Monday after about two months holidays. The first one month was the usual holidays for both pupils and students at the December, while the other one month was a compulsory political holidays to enhance full participation in the on going voters’ registrations.

OBVIOUSLY shocked by what I called the profusion of lies by the duo of Drs. Arinze Chinweuba and Emeka Nwabunna, who were on air to talk about the crisis they themselves created at the Anambra State University, they did separate rejoinders to my piece. However, the rejoinders were closely knit that you picture the duo as good friends mingling in osmosis of mutual influence.

AN internal crisis threatening to rock the foundation of Edo State Chapter of Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), is brewing following the alleged manipulation of the results of the Edo Central Senatorial Zone district primary held last month, and which was reportedly won by Theo Okoh.

Minister of Labour and Productivity, Chief Emeka Wogu, has assured unemployed Nigerian Youths that the scourge of unemployment will soon be reduced to the barest minimum as President Goodluck Jonathan, has demostrated strong political will to tackle this malady.

ORGANISED Labour has advised private sector employers in the country to avoid unnecessary tension and restiveness their planned scraping of gratuity as a result the Perform Reform Act, PRA, 2004, which gave rise to the Contributory Pension Scheme, CPS, is causing warning that the plan is a time bomb waiting to explode.

Edo State Head of Service, Dr. Simon Imuekheme has said that he is voluntarily retiring from the public service of Edo State .

Worried by the spate of incessant crises in some parts of the country, especially the northern region, former Military Governor of old Kaduna State, Col. Abubakar Dangiwa Umar (retd) has called on religious, traditional and political leaders to focus more attention and energy on resolving the crises and restoring lasting peace in the nation.

A group, Ebonyi Professional Forum, stated yesterday that giving the present set backs still being recorded across various polling centres in the state, there was no way the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, could come up with an accurate and well detailed computation of all eligible voters in the state.

TRADE Union Congress of Nigeria, TUC, has commended the Minister of Labour and Productivity, Chief Chukwuemeka Wogu, over his position on the intra union crisis involving Union’s Bank of Nigeria, UBN, Plc unit of the Association of Banks, Insurance and Financial Institutions

THE Vita Abba-led faction of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Enugu State, yesterday, assured its members and teeming supporters of more quality leadership and a robust political campaign that would promote the image of the party and its candidates to the electorate for the forthcoming general elections.

ENUGU–REGISTRARS of Polytechnics and Colleges of Technology in the country have appealed to the federal government to place their members on special salary scale like other public office holders on tenured appointments in view of the peculiar and onerous responsibilities they shoulder.

The traders association at the Marine Ultra Modern Market, Onitsha, Anambra, has urged Governor Peter Obi to compensate traders whose shops were destroyed in the ongoing road re-construction along New Market Road in the city.