FORMER Federal Commissioner for Information and Ijaw leader, Chief Edwin Clark, has urged the Federal Government to restructure the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, to make it more effective, saying the anti-graft agency under the leadership of Mr Ibrahim Lamorde was championing falsehood.

Edo State Government has suspended the recruitment exercise by the state Post-Primary Education Board, PPEB, following the allegation of fraud that marred the exercise.

MANAGING Director/Chief Executive Officer, CEO of Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund, NSITF, Alhaji Munir Abubakar, has said the fund has paid a total of N14, 837,005.66 as claims to companies under the Employees’ Compensation Act, ECA, 2010.

THE Governor Sullivan Chime-led administration of Enugu State has been told to quickly disburse to the flood victims in Uzo-Uwani Local Government Area of the state the N250 million released by the Federal Government for the welfare of the people displaced by flood in the state.

Amnesty International (AI) said, yesterday that a climate of fear has spread in parts of the nation’s northern region as a result of the atrocities committed by the fundamentalist Islamic Sect Boko Haram and human rights violations perpetrated by security forces deployed to rout them.

A special delegation from the Camerounian President, Paul Biya yesterday visited President Goodluck Jonathan in Abuja where issues of bilateral relations between the two countries were discussed.

The Petroleum Industry Bill, PIB, currently on the floor of the National Assemble, has received knocks from International Oil Companies, IOC, and Nigeria Oil Companies, NOC.

GOVERNOR of Kaduna State, Patrick Yakowa, has vowed that he would not resign from his position because of bombing of churches and security challenge in the state caused by members of the Boko Haram sect.

NIGERIA Labour Congress, NLC, Delta State Council, has issued a 21-day ultimatum to Assets Management Company of Nigeria, AMCON, over what it described as unacceptable ill-treatment of Delta Steel Company workers.

Jenifa – aka funke Akindele, or is it the other way round- is the household name that has changed the way we do the big screen, probably forever.

Before the film Jenifa, she was only the obscure, plain looking actress on daytime television playing one of three friends on some sponsored drama telling us to beware of the downsides of early marriage, vesico vaginal fistula and female genital mutilation.

Those who never visited the communities sacked by the recent flood surge at its peak may not fully appreciate what the affected people are currently passing through. The same is also true of those who are not victims of the flood.

As the year draws to a close, an essential part of cleaning up is the cleanup of your wardrobe. If you’re still wearing last year’s maxis and platform heels, you most probably require an update now. Trending now are:-

Nigeria won their second group game at the 2012 AWC 3-0 against Ethiopia in Bata, but they were far from convincing.

THE Court of Appeal sitting in Enugu, yesterday, adjourned to November 22 for hearing of the two pending motions filed by the National Chairman of All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, Chief Victor Umeh, against the decision of Enugu State Chief Judge, Justice Innocent Umezulike, on the party’s crisis.

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has said that the N150, 000 restrictions on third party cheques currently in Lagos state would become nationwide from next year.