DELTA State governorship re-run election petitions tribunal sitting in Asaba, weekend, admitted the ballot papers used by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, for the January 6 poll in the state as exhibit.

Wife of Ebonyi State governor, Mrs. Josephine Elechi, said yesterday that her office had identified 4,000 vulnerable children in the state who are in need of financial and educational assistance to improve their standard of living.

A U.S-based non-governmental organization, Family Watch International, has expressed worry over the decline in world population, and advised the federal government to invest heavily in youth education.

Human rights activist, Mr Femi Falana has accused immediate governor of Borno State Mallam Modu Sheriff of not being truthful in his denial last week of creating the Boko Haram.

MARITIME Workers Union of Nigeria, MWUN, weekend raised alarm over alleged illegal activities of some oil companies and shipping agents in midstream operations and private jetties stressing that were injurious to the nation.

The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, weekend, warned that it might be forced to embark on strike to press home its demand for the implementation of the 2009 agreement with the Federal Government on the amendment of the Pensions Act and 70 years retirement age.

WORKERS of the Enugu State Transport Company Limited, ENTRACO have appealed to Governor Sullivan Chime to consider the plight of their families and pay the 19 months salary arrears and 12 years leave allowances.

Former governor of Lagos State and national leader of the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu will tomorrow evening speak at Chatham House, London, on the rebirth of the opposition in Nigerian politics.

REPRESENTATIVE of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Chief Ferdinand Orbih, weekend, refused to sign the report of the sorting and recounting of ballot papers used in Ovia North-East Local Government Area of Ovia Federal Constituency election, ordered by the election tribunal sitting in Benin.

NIGERIAN Copyright Commission, NCC, said, weekend, that the leaders of Onitsha traders union who recently obstructed its personnel from performing their duties in Anambra State would be prosecuted.

RESH from the April 2011 general elections, the presidential candidate of the Fresh Democratic Party Reverend Christopher Oghenebrorie Okotie recently marked his 53rd birthday in an unusual form as he was consecrated the Prince of Nigeria in a ceremony in his Household of God Church in Oregun area of Lagos

The Minister of Trade and Investment, Dr. Olusegun Aganga has disclosed that there would be reforms and structural changes in the new ministry to ensure the success of the present administration’s transformational economic agenda for Nigeria.

In light of the Nigerian Government’s prioritisation of science and technology in education, Gateway Business (the leading provider of pan-African corporate connectivity) will be collaborating with a number of schools in Lagos State on various educational initiatives. These partnerships will form part of an ongoing Gateway Business project to empower the young generation.

A Europe-wide test of the safety of its banks risks becoming a sideshow as long as politicians struggle to contain the continent’s debt crisis and the detrimental impact on day-to-day funding for lenders.

As part of moves towards stemming the declining fortune of the Nigerian capital market, the Nigerian Stock Exchange, NSE, has said that it will appoint market makers from among the top 10 stock-broking firms in the market.