SAPELE- An emergency stakeholders meeting in Sapele Okpe over the leadership tussle in the community will hold today to proffer solution to the leadership crisis in the community.

THE National Economic Council, NEC, is meeting today to brainstorm on the future of the Universal Basic Education, UBE, fund.

More than 1,000 members of the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, who besieged Onitsha on Tuesday, erupted in spontaneous jubilation following the release of their 82-year-old member, Pa Samuel Onwuka.

THE National Union of Insurance and Financial Employees, NUBIFIE, is fast creating a unique identity as a union with the highest leadership turn-over in Nigeria. In the last 10 years, NUBIFIE has had no fewer than eight Presidents, six of whom were removed unceremoniously.

Bureau for Public Procurement, BPP, has faulted the Federal Ministry of Transport and the Nigerian Ports Authority, NPA, for refusing to adhere to laid down rules in the award of the N30 billion contract for the dredging of Calabar Port.

AFTER a keen competition for the Students In Free Enterprise, SIFE, by over 1,000 high institutions in the country, Benue State university, Makurdi emerged the national winner.

ENUGU-Rector of the Institute of Management and Technology, IMT, Enugu, Professor Edwin Onyeneje, explained Wednesday that the action taken recently by the National Board for Technical Education, NBTE, against the institution was temporary withdrawal of accreditation and not total closure of the institution.

BENIN-AHEAD 2012 governorship election in Edo State, a House of Representatives member, Mr. Pally Iriase, Wednesday, said it will be in the best interest of the people of the state to return Governor Adams Oshiomhole to Government House for him to sustain ongoing developmental projects.

As the tussle for Anabmra North Senatorial seat continues, one of the major contenders and wife of the late Senate President, Lady Margery Chuba Okadigbo, has dismissed the claim by Senator Igbeke to the position, insisting that she was the authentic candidate of the party for the position.

PORT HARCOURT- FEDERAL Government has been accused of marginalising the Urhobo people in political appointments.

Abraham Lincoln worked as a general storekeeper, the venture eventually went bankrupt and he ended up owing $1,100. He promised to pay the debt. Though it took him fifteen years to clear his debt; the money being an enormous amount in those days.

BENIN-THE Assistant Inspector General of Police, Zone 5 Benin, is investigating the alleged involvement of an official of Edo State Independent Electoral Commission, EDIEC (names withheld) in illegal thumb-printing of ballot papers used for Ovia Federal Constituency election, which is being contested at the election petition tribunal in the state.

ABAKALIKI-ORGANIZED labour in Ebonyi State, Wednesday, suspended its industrial action which had lasted one month to press home demands for the full implementation of the new minimum wage for workers in the state.

NATIONAL Pension Commission, PenCom, has said Trustfund that is managing the contributions to defunct Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund, NSITF, scheme, otherwise known as legacy funds, is awaiting transfer request from contributors to the Retirement Saving Accounts, RSAs.