Organised Labour in the power sector and the Federal Government have fixed April as deadline to resolve all pending labour issues to pave way to a seamless privatization of the Power Holding Company of Nigeria, PHCN. Already, both parties are said to have resolved less than 10 percent of their differences after the fourth round of meeting between both parties in Abuja.

Yenagoa- SPEAKER of the Bayelsa State House of Assembly, Konbowei Benson, has blamed the fast degrading environment in the Niger Delta region, on unwholesome oil and gas exploration activities of multi-national oil companies.

…Minister backs NEITI audit of sector
ABUJA – The Federal Government has noted that contribution by the solid mineral industry to the nation’s economy may have risen to about 11 percent in the past one year.

The Nigerian Union of Journalists, NUJ, has received about N50 million from pledges made to it during the 2011 fund-raising for the construction of its national secretariat.

Unknown gunmen in Nigeria late Tuesday shot dead a senior customs officer in charge of two states that have recently been rocked by Islamist attacks, police said.