Lagos State Government, yesterday, called on authorities of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC; Power Holding Company of Nigeria, PHCN and telecommunication operators in the state to embark on a round check exercise aimed at fixing all dilapidated and weakened pipelines, electric and telephone poles in the state. This is to avoid further loss of lives, following Sunday’s downpour in the state which led to the death of no fewer than 31 persons.

ACTIVITIES were yesterday grounded at government offices in Ondo State as workers in the public service began indefinite strike over the implementation of the N18, 000 minimum wage.

AS morning shows the day, it has virtually become the tradition of this column to review its injunctions to elected officials at the beginning of each new government.

As the family of Navy Captain Ugochukwu Chinwe Ezeorah (rtd.), from Aku, Igboetiti Local Government of Enugu who was killed in the bomb blast which occurred at the Police Force Headquarters, Abuja on June 16, 2011 has petitioned President Goodluck Jonathan over what they described as ‘’the apparent silence of the Police authorities in acknowledging the death of their son in the bomb blast.

The Bishop, Diocese of Kubwa, Anglican Communion, Rt. Revd. Duke Akamisoko, yesterday, called on state governors incapable of paying the N18, 000 minimum wage to vacate their offices and give room to masses-oriented government.