The Court of Appeal sitting in Benin, Edo State, has nullified the election of the member representing Oshimili North in Delta State House of Assembly, Mr. Pat Mozie.

Chief of Administration, Nigerian Army, General B. S. Usara, has said the 44 Nigeria Army Referral Hospital, Kaduna, meant to cater for injured army personnel during internal security or foreign peacekeeping operations, was not abandoned.

The meeting between the nation’s labour movement and President Goodluck Jonathan over the Government’s proposed removal of fuel subsidy ended in a deadlock yesterday in Abuja, as labour maintained that the removal will be injurious to the citizens and the country.

NATIONAL Secretary of the Accord Party, Dr. Samson Isibor, has been sentenced to nine months imprisonment by a Benin Chief Magistrate’s Court, Edo State, in two separate cases of assault, conspiracy and stealing.

The Federal Government, yesterday, said it will reduce borrowing to the barest minimum and also ensure a significant reduction in government spending between now and 2015.

FEDERAL Government has been enjoined to come to the aid of 35 communities in Rivers State, threatened by coastal erosion.

TEN years after the unresolved murder of the late Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Chief Bola Ige, SAN, the ruling party in the South West, Action Congress of Nigeria has vowed to re-open the case so that the killers would be sanctioned.

A WEEK ago, workers of the Power Holding Company of Nigeria, PHCN, under the umbrella of the National Union of Electricity Employees, NUEE, gathered in the ancient city of Benin, Edo state for their 4th Quadrennial/ 9th National Delegates Conference, to elect new leaders to run their affairs for the next four years.

Utangban community in Iyekogba, Oredo Local Government Area of Edo State, has called on Edo State Governor, Mr Adams Oshiomhole, to sack his Commissioner for Special Duties, Calistus Ojeabu, for unilaterally destroying their property.

FORMER Presidential Candidate of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) and co-founder of the Pan-African University, Prof Pat Utomi, is sad over the rot in the education sector and the Federal Government’s handling of its agreement with the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), issues over which university teachers are currently on strike. Excerpts:

Federal Government has awarded N16.1 billion contracts to two construction companies for the rehabilitation of roads in the South-East geo-political zone of the federation.

THE Danjuma Hall of the Armed Forces Resettlement Centre(NAFRC) , Oshodi was last Friday, filled to its capacity, with servicemen from the Nigerian Armed Forces comprising the Army, Navy and Air force, all clad in their respective ceremonial uniforms, thereby adding colour to the graduation ceremony of NAFTRAC Trainees Course 2/2011.

The caption of this story is shaped by the experience of this reporter during a three day intensive media workshop appropriately tagged; Annual Course for Reporters organized for journalists by Guaranty Trust Bank Plc last week.

That going by S.8(4) of the constitution of the Federation, is it proper and legal for INEC, in the conduct of an election, to officially allow an agitating community register and vote in a local government area other than that which the constitution recognise. This is in view of the fact that the process of boundary adjustment as required by the law was yet to be adhered to. Neither was there any court order to that effect? — Obiosa Neku.

Ahead of the Christmas and New Year festivities, residents of Enugu have cried over a wave of indiscriminate arrest of citizens by the police in the city.