A youth group in the Niger Delta region, Niger Delta Youths for National Change, NDYNC, has commended the management of Pipeline and Products Marketing Company, PPMC, for rehabilitating oil depots, including the Benin Depot in Edo Stat

CONTRARY to insinuations in some quarters that the Ministry of Agriculture has stopped the payment of Consolidated Health Salary Structure, CONHESS, to National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, members posted to the Ministry because it wanted monetary inducements from them, the state government last weekend declared that the stoppage was done because of lack of approval.

Even after the near successful privatization of Nigeria’s power sector, the Senior Staff Association of Electricity and Allied Companies, SSAEAC, has maintained that privatization is not the answer to the nation’s power problems.

Barely a year after the Lagos State Government introduced the Road Traffic Law, the Motorcycle and Tricycle Operators Association of Nigeria MOTOAN, has lamented that over 75 percent of its members are out of business.

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The Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN) has condemned the activities of the pipeline vandals and crude oil thieves, which have been a great challenge for optimal output from the refineries.

The organised labour,yesterday, in Lagos, expressed worries over the level of implementation of the Employee Compensation Scheme, ECS, lamenting that a situation where only 500,000 employees out of over 80 million workers in the country, had been covered by the scheme in the last three years when the ECS kicked off, was unsatisfactory.

President Goodluck Jonathan has declared zero tolerance for substandard laboratory practices, equipment, diagnostic reagents and chemicals in the country even as he commissioned the first ever In-Vitro Diagnostics, IVDs, Control Laboratory in Nigeria and West Africa.

The Federal Government is set to reap billions of naira from the importation of generating sets, as the Nigeria Electricity Regulatory Commission, NERC, has introduced a N25,000 charge per unit of 100KVA generator imported into the country.

President Goodluck Jonathan has kicked off the implementation of the diaspora export programme, designed to improve trade between Nigeria and other countries of the world.

ABUJA—Lagos based human rights activist, Mr. Femi Falana, SAN, Monday, dragged the Attorney General of the Federation, AGF, Mr. Mohammed Bello Adoke, SAN, before Abuja Division of the Federal High Court, praying the court to compel him to make available information on the state of health of Taraba State governor, Danbaba Suntai.

Secretary General of United Nations, Mr. Ban Ki-Moon, has urged the Federal Government to make education and literacy national priorities and work with partners across to advance these goals.

Nigeria is to access $500 million from international funding agencies to boost educational development and enhance access to universal basic education in the country.

Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State, yesterday, took up issues with the embattled National Chairman of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Alhanji Bamanga Tukur, for accusing him of sponsoring All Progressives Congress, APC.

* We’re toying with God’s design — Ezeife
*Nigeria’s major problem is injustice — Sen Kachako
Botched Third Republic Governor of Anambra State, Dr Chukwuemeka Ezeife and Senator Isa Kachako, who represented Kano Central in that era, were at the National Summit held at Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, last week, where they shared their thoughts on the problems of Nigeria and the way out. Excerpts: