SUSPECTED armed men Thursday shot dead a senior lecturer, Engr. Julius Ogungbemi of the department of mechanical engineering, Petroleum Training Institute, PTI, Effurun, near Warri, Delta State.

THAT High Chief Tony Anenih is a great man is stating the obvious. This is a man I owe so much respect not just because he is an elderly man but because he has remained a highly principled man over time.

The Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) has concluded arrangements to introduce the first ever Issuers’ Portal in the Nigerian Capital Market known as X-Issuer. The new portal is one of the new regulatory initiatives of the NSE, and it is designed to allow online submission of information by listed companies.

THE Presidency, Thursday, declared that the stabilising role the former Governor of Bayelsa State, Diepreye Alamieyeseigha played to ensure that oil in the Niger Delta was not cut off earned him the state pardon even as the Nigerian Labour Congress and civil society groups insist that the state pardon granted Alamieyeseigha was unacceptable.

Barely two days after he unceremoniously disengaged Dr. Harold Demuren as Director General of Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority, NCAA, President Goodluck Jonathan has sent a letter to the Senate requesting it to confirm his nomination of Captain Fola C. Akinkuotu as new head of the agency.

PORT HARCOURT – The planned three-day hunger strike and prayers by Rivers State pensioners over alleged unpaid pension arrears by the state government, has been cut short, hours after the protesters stormed Government House, Wednesday.

The Prelate, Methodist Church Nigeria, His Eminence, Dr. Ola Makinde, Thursday, urged the Federal Government not to be deceived by the ceasefire declared recently by the Boko Haram Islamic sect.

It also urged government to discountenance the call in some quarters for amnesty to members of the group.

The minister of information, Mr. Labaran Maku has challenged Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) in the country to complement the effort of government to usher in a new political order by improving the political values of Nigerian people on governance.
The minister gave the charge when National Coalition for Good Governance, NACOGG, paid him a courtesy visit yesterday in Abuja.

A middle-age woman alleged to have been serially raped by four men while in police custody in Abraka, Delta State, has petitioned the Assistant Inspector General of Police, Zone 5, Benin, accusing the Divisional Police Officer, DPO, and his men of negligence and failure to protect her.

Governor Babangida Aliyu of Niger State has insisted that President Goodluck Jonathan signed a single term pact with some governors of the Northern part of the country ahead of the 2011 presidential election.

Sokoto—Alhaji Abdu Taura, Sokoto State Coordinator of National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, Thursday, said the scheme had started the immunisation of 1,399 corps members of the batch “A” 2013, against Cerebro Spinal Meningitis, CSM.

MAKURDI—Executive Secretary of the Benue State Action Conmmittee Against Aids, BENSACA, Mrs. Ashi Wende, has said that more than 1,027,328 people in the state were currently living with the dreaded HIV/AIDS.

Eight persons died, while five others sustained serious injuries in an auto crash at Zariagi along Okene-Lokoja Highway, Kogi State, yesterday.

A council member of the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) Mr Victor Ogiemwonyi has said that a supplementary list of market makers would soon be out.