The Nigerian movie industry otherwise known as Nollywood recorded another setback, yesterday, when it lost one of its veteran actors, Pete Eneh to the cold hands of death.

IJAW National Congress, INC, has advocated the creation of 10 geo-political zones as a way of addressing the injustice done to minority ethnic nationalities in the country.

A former Director of Security and Logistics in the Pro-National Conference Organisation, PRONACO, Mr. Linus Okoroji, in Lagos, called on all NGOs, Labour and Civil Society Organisations to collaborate with the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, as the only opposition party in the country.

THE Central Council of Ibadan Indigenes, CCII, an umbrella body of all socio-cultural organisations has said the recent comments by the National Assembly on creation of state would not discourage it from its clamour for Ibadan State.

Export Development Canada (EDC) has announced that it has provided a USD 30 million five-year line of credit to the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank), the proceeds of which will be used to provide financing to African companies procuring Canadian goods or services.

IN a rare show of public appearance and support, the Benin monarch, Oba Erediauwa, yesterday, paid a visit to the governor of Edo State, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, at Government House, Benin City.

KIDNAPPERS of Mrs. Marian Onoyume, wife of Vanguard correspondent in Rivers State, Mr. Jimitota Onoyume, released her on Thursday, after she had spent three harrowing nights in their den.

Joint Task Force, JTF, in Maiduguri, Borno State capital, yesterday, said it killed a Boko Haram Commander for the North-East and North-West of Maiduguri and his lieutenants, who allegedly killed General Mamman Shuwa three weeks ago.

Students of the University of Jos, yesterday, staged a peaceful demonstration against alleged 150 percent increase in fees by the school’s management.

– PDP  stakeholders  and Local Government leadership of the party in Bende Local Government Area of Abia state have directed all its ward leadership in the council to reject any move by the former governor of the state, Chief Orji Uzor Kalu to return to the party.

One of Nigeria’s leading indigenous oil firm, First Hydrocarbon Nigeria Limited, FHN, has announced an increase in the oil reserves in the two fields, Ogini and Isoko, it was currently exploring in the Niger Delta, and estimated production target at 50,000 barrels per day in 2013, in response to government’s new local content policy.

The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN) has announced a new condition of admitting foreign trained accountants into its membership.

The innovations and aggressive promotion of Nigeria’s tourist destinations have earned the country a place on the International Council for the Promotion of Tourism (ICPT).

President Goodluck Jonathan Thursday renewed the call for the removal of fuel subsidy saying this is the only way to encourage private investment into the nation’s refineries.

After picking holes in the report of the Nuhu Ribadu led committee on petroleum revenue, the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Public Affairs, Dr Doyin Okupe Thursday made a volte face as he claimed that the Federal Government has no intention of dumping the Nuhu Ribadu report as being speculated in a section of the media.