The Police in Bayelsa State, yesterday, warned Ijaw youths against their continued protest and blockade of the East-West Road over Monday’s contentious conduct of the Ijaw Youths Council, IYC, national convention, which led to the emergence of Udengs Eradiri as its President.

More than 45 different groups including elders’ councils, ethnic groups, socio-cultural associations, town unions, women organisations, the business community and professional bodies from Abia and Imo states, yesterday, asked the National Assembly to enact a law that would back the proposed National Conference.

THE Third Quadrennial Delegates Conference, QDC, of Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, NUPENG, in the ancient city of Port Harcourt, Rivers State, will for sometime to come be an issue for discussion. With the theme Reforms in the Oil and Gas Industry: Catalyst for National Growth and Development, (What prospect for the attainment of Decent Work Agenda?), besides attracting local and international guests, stakeholders in the nation’s petroleum industry, used the occasion to emphasize the need for decent jobs in the sector.

MAN’S inability to understand that the physical things before him, including himself are controlled by God, gave birth to, Wisdom: A Discovery In A Nation With A Broken Heart.

GUN-MEN, Tuesday evening, laid siege to the busy Post Office Roundabout, Ughelli, headquarters of Ughelli North Local Government Area, Delta State, and robbed a telephone shop in the area.

FOR the major candidates contesting the election, what is happening in most parts of Anambra State should be worrisome to them.

THE contributions of Timothy Adebayo Fasuyi to the development of art in Nigeria will be brought to the fore as a group of artists, made up of those who have benefited from his award come together to celebrate him with an exhibition tagged Re- definition.

The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has urged students to be resourceful with their time following the persistence of the on-going strike. The Chairman, Kogi State University Chapter of ASUU, Dr. Sylvester Ukwuteno, who made this call while speaking to newsmen recently, admonished students not to use the time made available to them to cause mischief, but instead to study and prepare for the future.

The American University of Nigeria provides a modern education right in the backyard of Boko Haram,, Nigeria’s homegrown terrorist group. One clue: The campus claims 55 per cent of all the internet traffic in Nigeria.” Jack Rodolico, Latitude News, August 6, 2012.

Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State, yesterday, said a member of the Presidential Advisory Committee on National Dialogue, Col. Tony Nyiam (rtd) has exposed the planned national conference as a fraud, saying excesses of the former army officer showed the conference was being planned to fail.

Frontier markets need to establish robust standards to guide the development of their Over-the-Counter, OTC, spot market, said the Managing Director/CEO, Financial Market Dealers Quotation, Mr. Bola Onadele.

Golden Eaglets Coach Manu Garba has threatened to lodge a formal complaint against Iranian coach Ali Doustimehr for insinuating that the Nigerians were playing with players over the age of 17 at the ongoing FIFA U-17 World Cup here in the United Arab Emirates

The Po-lice in Katsina State have confirmed that one Ibrahim Lawal, 27, of Tigirmis village in Batagarawa Local Government Area, died in a clash between farmers and Fulani herdsmen.

Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State commiserated with the family of the late ex-Chief of Naval Staff and former Governor of the state, Admiral Mike Okhai Akhigbe (rtd.) who died Monday, October 28, 2013 in New York, describing his death as shocking and very unfortunate.

OKRIKA, home town of the First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan, is agog ahead of the funeral of her mother, Madam Charity Oba, which begins today. Despite the heavy security presence in the community, residents are in joyous mood.