Members of the Senate and House of Representatives Committees on Appropriation are meeting presidency officials today to reconcile ‘faulty’ allocations in the 2013 budget approved by the National Assembly.

Special Adviser to the President on Niger Delta Affairs and Chairman, Presidential Amnesty Programme, Mr. Kingsley Kuku, has given the Itsekiri National Youth Council, INYC, two weeks to submit the full list of Itsekiri youths to be included in the amnesty programme.

No doubt, reports of the low quality of Nigerian graduates have heightened in recent times. These reports however, seemed to have reached their pinnacle with the recent revelation by the Director-General of NYSC, Brig-Gen. Nnamdi Okore-Affia, that some corps members cannot communicate properly in English Language.

OWERRI—Imo State government has described the indefinite industrial action called by the leadership of Judiciary Staff Union of Nigeria, JUSUN, as an embarrassment and politically motivated.

REUBEN ABATI was at his most combative last Sunday, with his withering attack on “The Hypocrisy of Yesterday’s Men”.