PETROLEUM and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria, PENGASSAN, has threatened to join forces with other unions to ensure full implementation of the N18.000 new minimum.

Max Air, one of the official airlines licensed by National Hajj Commission for 2011 Hajj operations has deployed four Boeing aircraft for the exercise.

ALMAGALMATED Union of Public Corporations, Civil Service Technical and Recreational Services Employees, AUPCTRE, has blamed states for the wave of industrial unrest over the N18.000 new minimum wage in most states, lamenting that the industrial action is avoidable.

Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, in Edo State, has urged factional leaders in the crisis rocking the party over the issue of the deputy governorship ticket to sheathe their sword and allow for the amicable settlement of the issues.

NOK culture is a culture which provides evidence of the earliest ancient civilization of Nigeria. Nok culture is named after the city, Nok in the present Kaduna State where the first finds or objects or cultural artifacts were excavated by archaeologists in 1929.

DELTA State Governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan, has asked traditional rulers to be involved in monitoring of contractors handling government projects in their domain with a view to checking the excesses of contractors, who collect money and fail to execute the projects.

Rectors from 40 Polytechnics and Colleges of Technology in the country attended the 123rd regular meeting of the Council of Heads of Polytechnics and Colleges of Technology in Nigeria (COHEADS), held at Yaba College of Technology, Yaba, Lagos, from 20th-23rd September, 2011.

IF wishes were horses, the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Dahiru Musdapher, would have just waved a magic wand capable of obliterating all the ugly controversies bequeathed to him by the retired CJN, Justice Aloysius Katsina-Alu.

The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Supervisory Presiding Officer, SPO, Mr. Jude Ekerete has testified against a petitioner who was one of the candidates for Ukwuani Constituency in the last House of Assembly election, Mr. Chris Ochor, that he actually did not cast his vote in his ward.

Umuahia-ABIA State House of Assembly has summoned the Vice Chancellor of Abia State University, Uturu, Professor Chibuzor Ogbuagu, and state Commissioner of Police, Mr. Bala Hassan, over the controversial gang rape of a young girl allegedly by five young men said to be students of the university.