AWKA- Governor Peter Obi of Anambra State, Thurday, swore in the transition committee chairmen for the 21 local government areas of the state for another three months. The ceremony took place in the Banquet Hall of the Governors’ Lodge, Awka.

UGHELLI- ACADEMIC Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, Delta State University, Abraka chapter, has condemned the alleged 600 per cent increase in the monthly tax paid by workers of the university by the Delta State Board of Internal Revenue.

HAVING lost some time following the six-week recess they embarked upon recently, senators have been saddled with tough hurdles they must surmount in the coming months.

26 Nigerian students will this month join their counterparts from all over the world for human capital development at the London School of Economics and Political Science(LSE).

The Executive Chairman of Apapa Local Government Area, Mr.Ayodeji Joseph, has improved the education standard on primary and secondary students in the council, upon assuming office three years ago.

Siemens pushed back a planned multi-billion euro listing of light bulb unit Osram to a later date, becoming the latest victim of market volatility which has dented the hopes of a September revival in Europe’s lackluster new listings market.

Asaba-ALTHOUGH the strike action embarked upon by medical doctors in Delta State has been called-off, hundreds of job seeking medical doctors turned out on the premises of the state Hospital Manage-ment Board, HMB, yester-day, for interview.

HE labour crisis in Enugu State over partial implementation of the new minimum wage of N18,000 by the state government degenerated into an indefinite strike last week following the government’s refusal to negotiate with the team mandated by the national leadership of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) to handle the wage negotiation on behalf of aggrieved workers in the state.

Stanbic IBTC Asset Management Limited (SIAML) has assured stakeholders that strict adherence to the code of good governance, will remain pivotal to its operations.

SOME eminent Nigerians recently took a critical look at the state of affairs in country and returned a damning verdict: An end to leadership crisis in Nigeria is not in sight.

UYO-Akwa Ibom State Government has described as sad the attempt by organised labour to fault the agreement it signed with the government for implementation of N18,000 minimum wage for workers.

Banks in Enugu on Wednesday shut down all their operations in line with the directive of organized labour, which had called out civil servants on an indefinite strike over the new national minimum wage.

Umuahia-Abia State Governor, Chief Theodore Orji has called on the Anti-bomb Squad Unit of the Nigeria Police Force to train personnel for the establishment of Explosive Ordinance Disposal Unit in the state.

OWERRI-The leadership of All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, in Imo State, Thursday, said the emergence of a group which calls itself the “Interim Executive Committee of APGA” tantamounted to impersonation.

Attempt by six suspected kidnapers, among them, a female, to abduct a senior staff of an oil company in Lagos has been foiled by operatives of the State Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS, Ikeja.