Organisers of the second season of modeling, beauty and fashion competition 2Side Model Look Africa have made casting calls to models who want to be part of the glamourous fashion event.

A gathering of 13,000 newly recruited teachers, convened by their employer, the Rivers State Government, for collection of letters of posting was, yesterday, dispersed by the Police in the state alleging that it was yet another sponsored move to stage a protest against President Goodluck Jonathan in the state.

The interactive and much anticipated Fans’ Edition of Gulder Ultimate Search kicks off, Wednesday September 25, 2013 with the winner taking home a brand new Mitsubishi Pajero 3.0L GLX MT.

“Since we were retired, no kobo was paid to me. Every time, we would be called to come to Awolowo Road, Ikoyi, to fill one form after another. Sometimes, we sleep at Awolowo Road on the bare floor, for us to be attended to. In spite of that, nothing has come out of it. It was only in 2010 October that I was paid, since then, no payment. My children are in school, I can’t provide for them. Anytime they come back, we all starve and they will cry all day till they go back. There is nobody to help me except God. My husband died since 2003.”

RECENTLY, a bank ‘employee’ engaged on contract basis indeed an outsourced worker was engaged in momumental fraud in a bank . His arrest once more brought to the fore the issue of who should be engaged and which section of the an industry as sensitive as the banking industry should depend on outsourced employees.

Alhaji Garba Umar, the Acting Governor of Taraba, has reaffirmed his complete loyalty to ailing Gov. Danbaba Suntai.

Igbo National council, INC, and South East Coalition of Civil Society Organisations, have kicked against the amendment of Section 299 of the constitution which seeks to create the office of a mayor and deputy mayor for the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Abuja, and increase the number of states in the North Central zone to seven.

In a bid to checkmate the renewed wave of kidnapping in Aba, the commercial city of Abia State, the police in the state have arrested twenty persons, while over 500 motorcycles were seized for
contravening the ban on motor cycle operation in some parts of the state.

There was commotion in Bauchi State, yesterday, when gunmen launched an attack on a filling station near Federal Low-Cost Housing Estate in Bauchi metropolis, killing a member of a vigilante group and injuring three policemen.

THERE are indications that Customs agents in Lagos ports may down tools tp protest the irregular Customs tariffs classification on cargoes which operators said they received from the Headquarters of the Nigeria Customs Service, (NCS) in Abuja.