TRADE Union Congress of Nigeria, TUC, yesterday, commended both Lagos and Ondo States governors for taking the initiatives to increase the wages of civil servants in their states even before the N18,000 new national minimum wage was passed into law by the National Assembly.

Governor Timipre Sylva of Bayelsa State of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and former Special Adviser to the President on Niger Delta Timi Alaibe of the Labour Party were, yesterday listed by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, among 20 governorship candidates of the various political parties in the state for the April general elections.

AS indication emerged yesterday that the work-to-rule action by the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria, PENGASAN, in the downstream sector of the industry was beginning to hinder lifting of petroleum products, a meeting of major oil marketers, leaders of the oil workers among other stakeholders has been scheduled for today in Abuja, by the Federal Government to find a way out of the logjam.

FORMER Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor, Professor Charles Chukwuma Soludo,CFR, has in the past weeks, like an ill-trained riot policeman, been shooting indiscriminately at the economic policies of the Jonathan administration.

Special Adviser to the President on Niger Delta and Chief Executive Officer of the Presidential Amnesty Programme, Mr. Kingsley Kuku, has secured the release of 27 ex-militants detained by the Ghanaian authorities over unruly behaviour at the vocational institute where they were sent for training.