THE Nigerian Association of Small Scale Industrialists (NASSI), has called on the Federal Government to design effective storage facilities to curb the excessive wastage of agricultural produce.

Experts in Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) took turns for three consecutive days at the Michael Otedola College of Primary Education (MOCPED), Noforija – Epe, Lagos State to instil in the management staff and core academics of the institution ways to access the new dispute management mechanisms in tertiary institutions for peace and progress.

A motion to urgently rescue three kidnapped expatriates in the Niger Delta coastline and dialogue with excluded militants from the Federal Government Amnesty Programme was yesterday killed by members of the House of Representatives.

Hope in our education sector came alive at the weekend when Professor Fidelis Oditah gave an antedote to revamping the dwindling sector.

FOLLOWING the increase in piracy and armed robbery at sea along nation’s waterways, the management of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) has entered into partnership with the Spanish Navy in a bid to secure the waterways to enhance maritime business.

TWO suspected members of a notorious robbery gang that have been terrorizing most parts of Ikorodu area of Lagos State, have been arrested by the police.

AHEAD the July 14, 2012 gover-norship election in Edo State, Congress for Progressive Change, CPC, yesterday, disclosed plans by the party to enter into a coalition with Labour Party, LP, All Nigeria Peoples Party, ANPP, and Progressive Peoples Party, PPP, with a view to presenting a consensus candidate.

ONITSHA – Nigeria Union of Teachers, NUT, Anambra State wing, Wednesday protested the recent handover of about 1,040 public schools to churches by Governor Peter Obi on the ground that he breached Nigerian labour laws on such policy.

THE National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has said that it cannot vacate the ports based on verbal orders of the Minister reported in the newspapers.

ABA- FOLLOWING public outcry over the deplorable state of roads in Abia State, especially in Aba, Governor Theodore Orji has released N2.5billion to contractors for the rehabilitation of various roads in the state.

MILITARY pensioners in the South-South, are planning to take up arms against the Federal Government over unpaid five years pension arrears to draw public attention to their plight, stressing that “a man fights several wars before he goes into six feet”.

JOINT Action Forum, JAF, umbrella body for civil society organisations in Nigeria, yesterday, unfolded plans to mobilise Nigerians and collaborate with organised labour to force government abandon its planned petrol subsidy removal and the privatisation of the electricity sector.

MANY Lagosians obviously had not bought the assurances from officials of the Lagos State government and militant Yoruba socio-cultural group, the Oodua Peoples Congress, OPC, that Lagos is safe from Boko Haram-sponsored bomb attacks.

Igbeagu community in Igbeagu Development Centre of Ebonyi State, has called for a speedy resolution of the boundary dispute with Ukelle community in Cross River State.

A Nigerian, Professor G. Ugo Nwokeji was last week announced the winner of The 2011 Melville J. Herskovits Book Award in Washington, D.C., United States.