FORMER Governor of Kwara State , Bukola Saraki, has called on Communication and petroleum firms to take advantage of opportunities presented by the capital market and ensure that they are listed on the floor of the Nigerian Stock Exchange, NSE.

TEACHERS in the Delta State University, DELSU, Staff Secondary School, Abraka, have asked the State High Court, Isiokolo division, Delta State, to grant an interlocutory injunction restraining the Delta State Government and four other Defendants/Respondents, their servants, agents and privies from transferring them from their service and status as staff of DELSU to staff of State Model Secondary Schools in Delta State.

As part of its effort to enhance confidence in the Nigerian capital market, the Director General of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Ms Arunma Oteh said her Commission is set to strengthen the Collective Investment Scheme (CIS)/

As the national Olympic team intensifies preparations ahead of the 2012 Olympic qualifying tournament in Morocco next month, President General of the Nigeria Football Supporter Club, Rafiu Ladipo has tasked the players to improve their game to ensure qualification for the games.

The Nigerian Stock Exchange, NSE, has proposed a new set of listing requirements, granting a number of waivers for mining, oil and gas companies and companies with large capital base.

For Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed, the presentation of commercial pilot training certificate to the International Aviation College (IAC) Ilorin, by Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority, NCAA, is a fulfillment of the government’s effort to set kick-start student recruitment and training at the nation’s second aviation college.

THE global economy is on the verge of a new and deeper jobs recession that may ignite social unrest, the International Labour Organization (ILO) has warned.

Campaign for Democratic and Workers’ Rights, CDWR, has condemned the sack of non-indigenous civil servants in Abia State by Governor Theodore Orji and called for their immediate reinstatement.

THE Office of the Auditor-General of the Federation (AGF) rejected EFCC’s 2007 audited account submitted by the agency in 2009 because it lacked the mandatory domestic report.

THE Association of Business Practitioners, United Kingdom and Farayem Training Centre, Ibadan Nigeria have concluded plans to give Nigerian students who are working opportunities to acquire professional qualifications abroad in their chosen area of study.

AS controversy rages over planned removal of fuel subsidy by the Federal Government, several interest groups have been speaking for and against the move. But the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) is yet to take a formal position on the issue. NBA President, Mr. Joseph Daudu SAN, said the body would consider arguments from both sides before taking a stand on the issue.

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Two students of a secondary school in Kagara, Niger State who issued a threat text messages alleging purported plans by Boko Haram to attack the Presidential villa and National Assembly complex in Abuja have been arrested by the State Security Services, SSS.

GOVERNOR Theodore Orji of Abia State, Wednesday, emphatically said that the issue of disengaged non-indigenes from the state’s workforce would stay, indicating that the Government may not revisit the issue.

Court of Appeal sitting in Makurdi has annulled the election of the Speaker of the Benue State House of Assembly, Mr. Terhemen Tarzoor, due to alleged irregularities and declared the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, candidate in the election Mr Avine Agbom as winner.