Barely 48 hours after some governors and the minister of finance publicly disagreed on the state of the economy, the Human Capital Providers Association of Nigeria , HuCaPan, has called on the Federal Government to take more concrete steps to improve the economy for the benefit of the people.

President Goodluck Jonathan and his Bamanga Tukur-led faction of the Peoples Democratic Party may be heading for further isolation, as another five incumbent governors of the party may soon dump them for the Abubakar Baraje faction, otherwise known as New PDP (nPDP).

August 31, 2013, will forever remain indelible in the memory of the staff and management of Federal Medical Centre, Azare in Bauchi State. It was on that day that the Chief Medical Director of the Centre, Dr. Musa Mohammed Dambam and the District Head of Yamai Village in Dambam Local Government Area, Alhaji Adamu Manu, were brutally killed by gunmen suspected to be hired assassins.

Bayelsa State governor, Mr. Seriake Dickson, has warned political appointees in the state, who are not comfortable with his administration’s style, to resign.

THE Ondo State Government, yesterday, fixed October 4, this year, for the burial of the immediate past governor of the state, Dr. Olusegun Agagu, who died a week ago.

In about 24 hours from now,the curtain shall be drawn on Glo X Factor, the world’s biggest singing reality TV competition and the world shall come to know which of the last standing three acts, DJ Switch, Eshun and Vicky will have her life transformed forever.

A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, yesterday, declined to grant bail to two Nigerians, Abdullahi Mustapha Berende and Saidi Adewumi, accused of recruiting new members for an Iran-based terrorist organisation.

The reasons why governors are asking the Finance Minister, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, to quit her job, emerged yesterday.

Super Eagles forward Victor Moses has urged his Liverpool teammates to keep the momentum going as they seek to consolidate their lead in the Premier League.

Justice Peter Affen of an Abuja High Court at Jabi, yesterday, struck out the suit that was filed against the factional chairman of the Nigeria Governors Forum, NGF, Mr Jonah Jang, by Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State.

Special Fraud Unit, SFU, has arrested a graduate of the Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma, and a 40-year-old United Kingdom ex-convict ov er alleged visa scam.

The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has said that it would not shift grounds on its demand for 100 per cent implementation of the 2009 agreement it signed with the Federal Government, pointing out that the government was not sincere in addressing the rot in the education sector.

A media practitioner, Mr. Kelvin Keshi is dragging Nollywood actress, Monalisa Chinda and her beau, Lanre Nzeribe to court over breach of contractual agreement and failure to pay his two months salaries while working for their proposed magazine, Monalisa.

Ahead of the take-off of the new trading platform, X-Gen, which is set to commence operation at the end of this month, the Nigerian Stock Exchange, NSE, said it has equipped stockbrokers with the requisite training necessary to familiarise them with the new trading engine.

Ex-international Benson Edema has written off Ethiopia’s chances of qualifying for the FUFA World Cup in Brazil.