ORGANISED labour has threatened to shut down electricity supply in the South-West zone and all Nigeria Air force formations across the country by April 2, over alleged brutality and physical torture of workers of Power Holding Company of Nigeria, PHCN, at the Ibadan Zone by men of Nigeria Air Force.

The NYSC on Monday urged employers of corps members in Jigawa to pick them up from the orientation camp in Dutse on March 26.

A 40-year-old-man has been arrested by men of Ogun Police Command for allegedly hiring two men to rape his two younger sisters in Ijebu-Ososa in Odogbolu Local Government Area of the state.

An Ado Ekiti High Court has sentenced two policemen to death by hanging for their roles in the killing of two members of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, over allegation of the defacement of posters of political opponents in Omuo Ekiti about two years ago.

ONE of the biggest on going frauds in Nigeria is the budget – federal, state, and local governments. Millions of Nigerians pine away over late passage of the budget, but with the budget neither speed nor lack of it profits the larger public.

The Police in Lagos, yesterday, said they had received vital information on the kidnap of a foreign national, in Lagos, weekend.

THE Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, yesterday, rejected the application by the African Peoples Congress, one of the political associations in contention of the acronym, APC, saying that the association breached Section 222 (a) of the 1999 Nigeria Constitution as amended.

Tragedy struck, Sunday, in the creek of Yenagoa, the BayelsaState as a 200 level student of the state-owned NigerDeltaUniversity, was killed in a boat mishap.

The nursing mother and reporter with Nigerian Television Authority, NTA, Akure, Ondo State, Mrs Olubunmi Oke, released by his abductors, Saturday, has narrated her three-day ordeal in the camp of the kidnappers.

GUNMEN suspected to be members of Boko Haram sect torched the Bara Divisional Police Station, the council secretariat complex and telecom masts of MTN and Globacom, killing a policeman who attempted to protect the station from being set ablaze with Improvised Explosive Devices, IEDs, and rocket propelled launchers at 1.30 a.m, yesterday.

ETHNICITY is a somewhat problematic word. The great American anthropologist and poet, Stanley Diamond, used such words as ethnic with complete and disarming respect, unlike most of us.

No fewer than 334 million people representing 39 percent of the population of sub-Sahara Africa lack access to clean drinking water. Similarly, about 600 million people which is approximately 70 percent region’s population, lack access to sanitation.

Indications emerged yesterday that barely a week to the end of the first quarter of the year, the Presidency is yet to order the retrieval of unspent pension fund amounting to N15.3 billion from eight banks in the country in line with its extant financial rule.

The boycott of the first year anniversary lunch of the new national executive of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, by all but two of the party’s 23 governors, has been linked to persisting misgivings on the administrative style of the National Chairman of the party, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur.

CHAIRMAN, Warri North Local Government Area of Delta State, Evangelist Davis Edun, has warned youth leaders and community representatives, to be wary of using inflammatory comments over the recent happening in Benin River, during which some criminals, suspected to be Ijaw youths, intercepted and hijacked a ferry boat carrying fuel.