The Chairman Senate Committee on MDGs and Senator representing Southern Borno, Senator Mohammed Ali Ndume has said there is no need for National Conference, as it is a diversion from the real issues affecting Nigerians.

“For almost 100 days, our students, our dependants, our children have been locked out of our ivory towers and nothing has changed. We are here to appeal to the labour leaders in this country to come and mediate on the lingering and prolonged ASUU strikes.

THE National Strike Coordinating Committee, NSCC, comprising of principal officers and Zonal Coordinators of Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU will be meeting Saturday to take stock of the ongoing strike embarked by the union that is entering the fourth months.

ALHAJI Abubakar Kawu Baraje led new Peoples Democratic Party, PDP yesterday suffered a major set back as stakeholders and leaders from his home state, Kwara stormed the Wadata Plaza, National Secretariat of the party and demanded that the former Governor, Senator Bukola Saraki, present governor Abdulfatah Ahmed and Baraje must be sanctioned by the Bamanga Tukur led National Working Committee, NWC.

A civil society group under the aegis of Anti-Corruption Network, yesterday, gave Minister of Aviation,Princess Stella Odua a 72-hour ultimatum to resign her position or face mass protest.

The Presidential Advisory Committee on National Dialogue will treat all memoranda submitted to it, the Chairman, Sen. Femi Okunronmu, has assured

The major rival to  Dr Kayode Fayemi in the 2014 governorship election,Hon Opeyemi Bamidele may have dumped the All Progressive Congress (APC)to yet to be disclosed political party.

The Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) yesterday  dismissed unconfirmed media reports that two BMW security cars which were bought by the agency were missing.

Isaac O. Aberare, General secretary, Nigerian Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers. In this interview with Moses Nosike of Saturday Vanguard, on casualisation in Nigeria, he reveals how indigenous and foreign companies contravene Labour laws because of government inability to enforce them. He stressed further how Nigerian workers spend 30 years in an employment as contract staff and others.

They have all sorts of things together and then the fight against the third term. Of course, we had said from the beginning it can’t work. No dictator has ever survive in this country. So, why should we try it? Follow the rules. It wasn’t very popular with many. You knew what happened there. Of course, Anambra was an issue. Why would we use strategies like that to resolve issue? If Ngige’s election was faulty, then wait for the courts.