Workers of Lagos State Water Corporation, LSWC, Tuesday, embarked on strike over poor conditions of service and alleged refusal by management to improve their welfare.

To recap, after the team’s training session on the day of departure for Madagascar, Enyeama and Mikel expressed concerns about the team’s flight arrangements, saying they would have preferred a bigger plane which would have no need to stop over and refuel.

Following intelligence report that the Islamic sect, Boko Haram, had concluded plans to bomb some states in the Niger Delta, South-East and South-West geo-political zones, militants in the Niger Delta, have volunteered to team up with the security agencies, especially the armed forces to repel the rebellious group.

Leaders of Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, in Ifako/Ijaiye Local Government Area of Lagos State, have rejected the alleged imposition of one Toba Oke on the party by its leadership as the chairmanship candidate for the October 22 council poll in the state.

Former Military Governor of Lagos and Borno states, Brigadier-General Mohammed Buba Marwa (rtd), Tuesday, asked the Federal Government to investigate causes of Boko Haram activities in some parts of the country as a way of putting an end to the menace.

BENIN- Congress for Progressive Chan-ge, CPC, in Edo State, Tuesday, called on Governor Adams Oshiom-hole of the state to free the 14 part time students of Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma, who are standing trial over their alleged involvement in the February 15, 2010 riot in the university.

Litigants in the various election petitions in Anambra State were taken aback, Tuesday, when they learnt that the Acting President of Court of Appeal had ordered that hearing in cases which were referred back to Anambra Legislative Houses Election Petition Tribunal (1) be put on hold, pending further directives.

Governor Babatunde Fashola, SAN, Tuesday, received a cheque donation of N100 million from Dangote Group for victims of the July 10 flooding in Lagos with its Group Chairman, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, urging residents to pay their taxes to the government regularly.

Following the rising tension in the riverside community of Peremabiri in the Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of Bayelsa State over the deployment of gunboats and the alleged cases of harassment by soldiers, the community has petitioned President Goodluck Jonathan warning of the deteriorating security situation in the area.

The Edo Unity League, EUL, an umbrella body of all socio cultural and civil society groups in Edo State, has advised Governor Adams Oshiomhole to allow the leadership of the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, in the state produce his running mate for the 2012 governorship election to avoid unnecessary tension.