-Promasidor Limited, makers of Cowbell Milk and other consumables, has shut down operations over dispute with workers. The workers, yesterday, protested the shut down of the company.

Twenty-Five displaced flood victims in Lagos State, who were accused of demonstrating against alleged maltreatment by government officials at the Agbowa transit camp, where they were kept, have been docked before an Ikeja Chief Magistrate Court.

A middle aged man, weekend, beheaded a 45-year-old woman in Bomadi, headquarters of Bomadi Local Government Area, Delta State.

Sports Minister Yusuf Suleiman on Monday in Abuja called for pragmatic solutions that would help to curb the incessant recurrence of crisis in Nigeria’s football.

Recently, at a readers’ survey conducted by the major German motoring magazine, “auto, motor and sport” the Mercedes-Benz S-Class was awarded the best car in the luxury car segment while the Mercedes-Benz SLS got the award for the best sports car. For two years in succession, the SLS has therefore been voted the “Best car of the year” in its category. The S-Class saloon on the hand, has likewise won this coveted award several times in recent years.

Former Military President Ibrahim Babangida has called for the release of the former Chief Security Officer to the late Gen. Sani Abacha, Maj. Hamza al-Mustapha.

The Minister of Power, Professor Barth Nnaji has announced the immediate removal from office of four Chief Executive Officers of Distribution companies across the country.

Members of the Airline Operators of Nigeria, AON, yesterday, said they can only reduce air fares if the government removed Value Added Tax, VAT, on aviation fuel, otherwise known as JET A1.

Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State, yesterday, signed into law the Lagos State Financial Regulations Bill, which limits the power of state government, 20 local government areas and 37 Local Council Development Areas chairmen in the state to borrow money for capital expenditure.

Following the tension and uncertainty generated by the purported interception of 700 explosives by soldiers attached to Guards Brigade of the Nigerian Army two weeks ago at the city gate Abuja, and clarification by the Inspector General of Police, Hafiz Ringim, that they were dynamite explosives used for blasting of rocks at construction sites, the IGP yesterday met with manufacturers and distributors. At the meeting the IG spelt out new modalities for the purchase and movement of such explosives.

The Presidential Committee on post-election violence across the country would soon submit its report after concluding its public hearing. Vanguard gathered yesterday that the Panel had already gathered memoranda from different parts of the country on violent incidents that erupted after the last general elections in the country.

As Muslims began the observance of Ramadan, yesterday, President Goodluck Jonathan has urged Muslims to offer prayers for peace, unity, stability and rapid socio-economic development in the nation.

Determined to prove its allegations that the April 16 presidential election that produced President Goodluck Jonathan was fraught with irregularities, the Congress for Progressive Change, CPC, yesterday, persuaded the election petition tribunal sitting in Abuja, to extend the time originally allotted for hearing of its suit seeking to void the election results.

ember of the Institute of Chartered Economists of Nigeria, ICEN, Dr. Mansur Idris, yesterday, said that the federal, states and local governments in the country spent about N327. 85 billion on public primaries, secondary and tertiary schools last year.

THE Peoples Democratic Party, PDP is moving to amend its constitution to adopt the direct form of primary elections in line with President Goodluck Jonathan’s equally controversial vision of curbing election tension through the adoption of a single term for the President and Governors.