The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) on Tuesday called on the Federal Government to address the spate of bombings in some parts of the country.

Asaba – DELTA State High Court sitting in Asaba has sentenced a 29-year-old security guard to 50 years imprisonment for robbing an Asaba resident of the sum of N105,000 and an ATM card at gun point.

CALABAR – THE Commissioner of Police in Cross River State, Mr. Osita Ezechukwu, has promised to clamp down on pipeline and cable vandals, night marauders and cultists in the state, saying there would be no longer hiding place for criminals.

The Minister of Defence, Dr Bello Mohammed, says he is convinced that the current terrorism in the country will soon come to an end.

THE Joint Military Taskforce, JTF, yesterday, raided and destroyed a ‘bomb factory’ at Bubugaje, suburb of Sharada Industrial estate in Kano after three hours of combat operation

The Muslim community in Bayero University, Kano, has condoled with the Vice-Chancellor of the university and the university community over last Sunday’s attack on two churches by the Boko Haram group.

Majority Leader and member representing Sapele Constituency in Delta State House of Assembly, Chief Monday Igbuya, has said arrangements were underway for a mass protest against Sapele Power Plc, if the power station did not improve on its services.

SENATE President David Bonaventure Achelenu Mark has become famous for his candour. He speaks so explicitly about the Nigerian condition that he easily forgets his place in it. Nobody would have clearly affirmed that Nigeria had become a laughing stock than Senator Mark.

FORMER Minister of Federal Capital Territory, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, yesterday, warned the Federal Government to review its stance on the security situation in the country, but if it fails, “they will not be in government for too long”.

Governor Theodore Orji of Abia State said yesterday workers in three parastatals were not being paid the new minimum wage of N20,100 because of fictitious names on the payroll.

AGGRIEVED workers in Ebonyi State yesterday booed Governor Martin Elechi over non-implementation of the N18, 000 National Minimum wage in the state.

LAGOS State Chapter of Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, and Trade Union Congress of Nigeria, TUC, yesterday, appealed to the striking doctors in Lagos public hospitals and the state government to immediately resolve their differences in the interest of the suffering patients and masses.

GOVERNOR Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State yesterday called on the Acting Inspector-General of Police, Muhammed Abubakar, to investigate what he described as the alleged attempt on his life, saying the comments made by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the state on the accident that led to the death of three journalists were suspicious.

THE over 6,000 workers of Anambra State origin disengaged from other states will soon get a reprieve as the state government said yesterday it was thinking of how to rehabilitate them.

GOVERNOR Babatude Fashola of Lagos, yesterday, told Lagos workers that henceforth his government would no longer pay any wage imposed by the Federal Government unless the state was part of the negotiation that brought about the wage.