Rights group, the Campaign for Democratic and Workers’ Rights, CDWR, has called on the Federal Government to make room for transparency and democracy in the management of the Power Holding Company of Nigeria, PHCN.

Chairman, Poly Products Plc, Mr. Michael Bruce, said the company plans to delist its shares from the Nigerian Stock Exchange, NSE.

The world’s poorest countries have issued a bold plan to make the UN climate change talks more likely to reach their goal of having an effective and legally binding agreement ready for governments to adopt by 2015.

Two major international agricultural centres have pledged to scale efforts to tackle the hunger challenge in Africa, a statement by both firms said.

AS the two-week ultimatum handed the Federal Government to prosecute indicted persons in the subsidy report expires, the Save Nigeria Group, SNG, says it will head to court to seek for judicial pronouncements on appropriation and spending from the Federation Account.

ILORIN – AS the 2009 agreement between the Federal Government and the non-academic workers in the nation’s universities is due for review in July, Labour leaders have given indication that they will demand pay rise to cope with the economic reality in the country.

Applications have been called for the BRCA Award, instituted by the Sebeccly Cancer Care and Support Centre, SCCSC, an independent initiative established to acknowledge excellence and commitment in cancer journalism and shed light on the pivotal role journalists play in informing the public on matters of cancer.

Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State has described the late Vice-Chancellor of University of Lagos, Professor Adetokunbo Sofoluwe, as a great man of the people, adding that his death was a huge loss to the academic community.

ABUJA—FEDERAL Roads Maintenance Agency, FERMA, has been directed by the House of Representatives House Committee on Public Accounts to remit N1.97 billion unrequited tax to the Federal Government’s coffers.

UMUAHIA – JUSTICE Garuba Muhammed Umar of the Federal High Court, Umuahia, Abia State, has frowned at lawyers who do not respect their colleagues, even in the court.

TRIBALISM/ethnicity/sectionalism: It is my contention that tribalism, ethnicity and sectionalism played the most part of Nigeria’s political instability. Most of the military interventions experienced in Nigeria were inspired by tribal and ethnic tendencies inherent in the country’s social diversity.

To further strengthen the activities of its enforcement department and ensure that duties are carried out in a conducive environment, the National Agency for Food Administration and Control(NAFDAC) weekend commissioned the first-ever Enforcement Directorate office in the country.

Hundreds of youths from Odeda Local Government Area of Ogun State yesterday invaded the Senatorial Office of the senator representing Ogun Central, Gbenga Obadara, on the platform of Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN and destroyed property worth millions of naira.

A gun duel between soldiers and a group of gunmen, weekend, in Rigassa area of Kaduna Stata has left one soldier and a member of the gunmen dead

The President, Paediatric Association of Nigeria, PAN, Dr Dorothy Esangbedo, has again reiterated that pneumococcal disease remains a significant burden in Africa, accounting for 20 per cent of under five deaths in Nigeria.