Benue State Chairman of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Mr. Emmanuel Agbo, yesterday, escaped death by the whisker, when aggrieved members and delegates of the party from Okpokwu Local Government Area, descended on him. Security operatives rescued him.

Globacom on Tuesday in Abuja presented a cheque of three hundred and fifty million naira (N350m) to the Nigerian Football Federation as the five-year sponsorship deal it signed with the Federation last year entered the second season.

PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan, yesterday, forwarded to the Senate a 2013-2015 medium term Expenditure Framework and Fiscal Strategy Paper, with a promise that the 2013 budget will be a continuation of his fiscal consolidation.

The loss of a child to the cold hands of death is usually a painful experience to any parent. It is even more traumatically shocking when such death is the tragic consequence of the callous action of a fellow human being. This is the case of Suleiman Umaru Dahiru, aged 31, who was killed as he was driving very close to his father’s residence along Murtala Muhammed road, opposite the Gwallaga Juma’at mosque in Bauchi city.

Teachers in public primary schools are to embark on indefinite nationwide strike on September 24, if the government fails to pay their 27.5 per cent Teachers Special Allowances (TSA)on or before Monday, September 24, the National President, Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT), Comrade Michael Alogba Olukoya has said.