Chairman of the Senate Committee on Establishment and Public Service Matters, Senator Alloysious Etok, on Monday asked the Economic & Financial Crimes Commission to take urgent steps to probe him over allegation that he took a N1 billion bribe from a pension suspect standing trial in Abuja for fraud.

CONCERNED Progressive Professionals, CPP, has called on the Independent Electoral Commission of Nigeria ,INEC, to sanction any political party that parades more than one candidate for the election.

Ex-militant leader, ‘General’ Preye Ekpebide, has identified job creation for the teaming Niger Delta youths as panacea to terrorism, kidnapping, armed robbery, pipeline vandalism and illegal oil refinery bedeviling the country.

The former Governor of Ekiti State, Mr. Ayo Fayose, has asked the Federal High Court sitting in Ado Ekiti to dismiss the charges brought against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on the ground that the case was legally offensive.

THE city of Port Harcourt, Rivers State, came alive on Monday as writers, students, book enthusiasts and stakeholders in the publishing industry, stormed the Garden City, venue of the 2013 Port Harcourt Book Festival (PHBF) which was formerly Garden City Literary Festival.

The Trade Union Congress of Nigeria, TUC, recently held its International Relations Forum in Accra, Ghana. The theme was, Trade Unionism in Nigeria and Global Social Protection, and the venue was Kwame Nkrumah African Labour College, Accra. Labour Vanguard shares with you, the thoughts of the Secretary-General of the Organisation of African Trade Union Unity, OATUU, Comrade Owei Lakemfa and the TUC President, as contained in their addresses to participants.

Following public outrage that greeted the controversial purchase of N255 million bullet-proof vehicles for the Minister of Aviation, Princess Stella Oduah by the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority, NCAA, President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday set up a three-man administrative panel to investigate the circumstances surrounding the purchase.

Progressives Peoples Alliance, PPA candidate, Godwin Ezeemo has launched his ‘Wellbeing manifesto’ in Awka, with a promise to make power supply the focal point of his administration.

Stakeholders in the education sector, yesterday, took the supervising Minister of Education, Mr. Nyesom Wike to task over his declaration that the on-going strike by Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, would be called off in a few months.

Golden Eaglets assistant coach Nduka Ugbade has said that the coaching crew was worried over the injury sustained by striker Success Isaac in the first half of Tuesday’s group F match against Sweden at the FIFA U-17 World Cup here.