The Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) will today bring together the Special Adviser to the President on Power and Chairman, Presidential Task Force on Power, Professor Barth Nnaji, Chairman of the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission, Dr Sam Amadi, and other stakeholders to discuss Power Sector Reforms.

THE presidential candidate of the All Nigeria Peoples Party, ANPP, Mallam Ibrahim Shekarau, yesterday in Ibadan condemned the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, saying “it cannot show any remarkable achievement it made in the last 12 years.”

THE Senate in response to repeated protest from civil society groups and students has commenced deliberations on the Petroleum Industry Bill, PIB, vowing that the bill will be passed before May, 2011.

Former Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Chief Michael Aondoakaa, has declared that he bears no grudges against President Goodluck Jonathan for sacking him from the Federal Executive Council.

IN one fell swoop, unprecedented in the annals of higher education in this country, the federal government established nine out of the 12 universities purportedly meant for the remaining states without federal universities. Vice Chancellors and registrars have been appointed for the take off from the next academic session in September.

The Legal Practitioners Privileges Committee, LPPC, yesterday, invited 62 legal practitioners to appear before it on March 30 and 31, with a view to ascertaining their suitability for the confirmation of Senior Advocates of Nigeria, SAN, on them.

CAMPAIGN for Democratic and Workers’ Rights, CDWR, has called on the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, to ensure a for full scale investigation into the over N12 billion Pension scam uncovered in the Pension Department of the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation and bring everybody directly or remotely connected to crime to book.

BARING last minute intervention, Lagos State Chapter of the National Association of Nigerian Nurses and Midwives, will today begin an indefinite strike, following the expiration of its seven-day ultimatum to the state government, yesterday

AS campaigns for the April elections hot up in Edo State, the former Deputy Governor of the state, Mr Lucky Imasuen, has raised alarm over alleged plans by Governor Adams Oshiomhole to incite his Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, members to eliminate him and other leaders of the ACN under the guise of checking election riggers in the state.

Homicide detectives at the state Criminal Investigations Department, SCID, Panti, Yaba, Lagos, yesterday, arrested a middle aged woman, who allegedly killed her younger brother