PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan has promised that the Federal Government would tackle squarely, the erosion menace that is threatening Abia state, and indeed the entire South East Zone.

A NON-GOVERNMENTAL Organization, the Women Aid Collective (WACOL) has bemoaned the fate of Nigerian female politicians who it claimed, have been shortchanged by their male counterparts.

Abuja – The Federal Government is owing contractors who worked for the Ministry of Water Resources over the past six years N23 billion, according to a senior official of the ministry.

Abuja – Some senators on Thursday expressed surprise at the Federal High Court judgment extending the tenure of five state governors till 2012.

The management of the New Nigerian Development Corporation (NNDC) – the publishers of New Nigerian Newspapers, Thursday denied owing its 250 pensioners any unpaid increment

Lagos – The Lagos State Environmental Protection Agency (LASEPA) on Thursday called on the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC ) to urgently repair the burst pipes at Diamond Housing Estate, Isheri, Lagos to avert a fire disaster.

Lagos- An Ebute Meta Magistrates Court, Lagos on Wednesday granted a N200,000 bail to a septuagenarian landlord, Adesomoju Odoro who was docked for alleged defilement of a nine-year-old girl.

Minna – President Goodluck Jonathan in Minna commended former Head of State retired Gen . Abdulsalami Abubakar for entrenching democracy in the country.

Former Secretary-General of Nigeria Football Association (NFA), Alhaji Sani Toro, says all hopes are not lost with the failure of Nigeria to retain a place on the FIFA Executive Committee.

The UN Development Programme (UNDP) has dropped the daughter of Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi, Aisha al-Gaddafi, as a Goodwill Ambassador.

Abuja- The Group Managing Director (GMD) of NNPC, Mr Austen Oniwon, says the corporation is targeting the refining of at least 700 million barrels of crude per day (mbd) to bridge the gap between domestic consumption of petroleum products and supply.

The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, in Bayelsa State, yesterday, said it had received over 3,000 complaints from voters in the state over anomalies discovered during the just concluded voters registration exercise list on display.

EIGHT Former militant ‘Generals’ in the Niger Delta have issued the Federal Government a two-week ultimatum within which to commence the monthly payment of their salaries and those of their boys, failing which they would blow up oil facilities across the region and further ensure that elections were not held in the region

NIGERIA’s current account fell by 62 per cent in the third quarter of last year due to huge import bill and decline in exports, says the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN.

Doctors in Abia State University Teaching Hospital, Aba, under the aegis of Association of Resident Doctors, ARD, have appealed to President Goodluck Jonathan to prevail on Governor Theodore Orji to clear all the outstanding salaries and allowances owed them, saying they were fed up with the state government’s several unfulfilled promises.