Irked by the continued abduction and periodic murder of their members in Imo State, the leadership of Nigerian Medical Association, NMA, Imo State branch, yesterday called out its members on a peaceful demonstration.

An explosion from a tanker loaded with 33,000 litres of product, believed to be petrol, yesterday, rocked Mile Two area of Lagos.

DOCK WORKERS, protesting moves by the Senate to give legal backing to the establishment of another security agency in the maritime industry through the Maritime Security (Establishment) Bill 2009, yesterday, shutdown ports operations nationwide.

PresidenT Goodluck Jonathan has charged the tiers of government to eliminate waste and fashion out ways of generating more income to meet the Millennium Development Goals, MDGs

A Lagos-based property development firm, Messrs Omais Investment Nigeria limited, last week turned the sod to flag off the construction of a three-storey state-of-the art shopping complex in ikeja, the Lagos State capital.

A young man escaped death at Festac Town, yesterday, as a motorist lost control of his vehicle and knocked him down.

The Newspaper Proprietors’ Association of Nigeria, NPAN, will on Thursday host a Town Hall Meeting with the sole objective of promoting understanding of the desirability or otherwise, of petroleum subsidy removal. It is the second in the series of Town Hall Meetings.

The intrigues that heralded the judicial proclamation of Comrade Adams Oshiomhole as winner of the 2007 gubernatorial elections had for long been buried. Now thanks to the veteran labour leader turned politician a little of the mystery is unfolding.

BARELY four days to Christmas holidays, patients seeking healthcare services in public hospitals across the federation, appear to be in for a gloomy yuletide as a three-day nationwide warning strike called by the Joint Health Sector Unions, JOHESU, is expected to begin tomorrow.

Any invited Super Eagles player that fails to turn up at the team’s camp in Abuja by tomorrow will only have himself to blame as the team’s gaffer Stephen Keshi has vowed to wield the hammer on all defaulters.

Akwa Ibom State Government said it was ready to raise over N200 billion from the Nigerian capital market to beef up its infrastructural facilities that would spur industrial revolution in the state.

ERSTWHILE Head of State, General Yakubu Gowon (rtd), Sunday, expressed optimism that despite the security challenges confronting the nation, she would soon experience a new dawn, just as Governor Babatude Fashola of Lagos State urged Christians to pray for peace in the nation.

THE Court of Appeal sitting in Benin, Edo State, yesterday, declared Olororun Taleb Tebite of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Ughelli South Local Government Area, Delta State, as winner of the May 6 House of Assembly rerun election in the council area.

Mummy, will daddy be home for Christmas? Asked one of Mrs Ose’s children. But in response, his mother who was lost in thought, looked up to heaven as if someone up there had the right answer and with a sigh she replied, “ God will bring him back home”.

Governorship candidate of Change Advocacy Party, CAP, in the February gubernatorial election in Bayelsa State, Dr. Imoro Kubor, has said that he and his running mate, Rev Obegha Oworibo, remained the candidates to beat in the forthcoming election because of their excellent civil service careers.