A 25-year-old woman, Yakbyen Nanbol, who allegedly conspired with her lover of the same age to murder her husband, has been nabbed by policemen in Jos.

THE attack on the Nigerian Embassy by ex-Niger Delta militants studying at the People’s Friendship University, Moscow is another such incident of unruliness.

The beauty of dirge or funeral poetry came to my consciousness in my last year at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, when I had to do my B.A, Thesis on the content and form of Igbo elegiac poetry for a degree in English. Since after that research attempt, I have come to the conclusion that the elegiac form, otherwise known as dirge offers the mind the most illuminating canvass for the expression of deep feelings.

Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Professor Attahiru Jega, has renewed calls for the establishment of an electoral offences tribunal before the 2015 general elections.

Jega made the call during a debate on ethics and elections organised by the Friedrich Ebert Foundation on Tuesday in Abuja.

Nigeria coach Stephen Keshi says he is happy with his first look at Godfrey Oboabona and does not envisage any additional training to get the defender in top shape to face Ethiopia this weekend.

As the zero hour ap-proaches swiftly for the first leg World Cup play-off between Ethiopia and Nigeria on Sunday, former Super Eagles coach, Chairman Christian Chukwu has advised the Super Eagles players to play down on the fear of altitude in Addis Ababa and instead concentrate on their attitude to the game.

Ahead of this weekend’s crucial play-off between the Super Eagles of Nigeria and the Walya Antelopes of Ethiopia in Addis Ababa for the Brazil 2014 world cup ticket, Senate President, David Mark, has charged the Nigeria side to leave nothing to chance in the battle.

Generator fumes have reportedly killed two friends in the Swali suburb of Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital.

NIGERIA Labour Congress,NLC, yesterday, called on President Goodluck Jonathan to discountenance the impression that ongoing strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, was a political action against his government as nothing could be farther from the truth. It then advised the President to tackle the crises in the education sector and prevent a shut-down of the sector.

THE family of the late former governor of Ondo State, Dr. Olusegun Agagu, yesterday, insisted that the choice and hiring of the ill-fated plane from Associated Airline was not that of the family.

Niger State governor,Dr. Babangida Aliyu, has described the seven governors on the platform of the ruling People’s Democratic Party, PDP, opposed to the national leadership of the party led by Alhaji Bamanga Tukur as reformers and not rebels.

Even before the Nigerian civil war, my father had always advised that if anyone offended us, we should resist the temptation to invite a soldier to fight for us, maintaining that if we invited a soldier to fight for us, he would beat up all those we wanted beaten up but when there were no more people to beat, he would pounce on us.

The Human Capital Providers Association ( HuCaPan), an affiliate of the Nigeria Employers Consultative Association ( NECA), held its annual general meeting in Lagos. Labour Vanguard took up the president of the Association, Mr. Neye Enemigin, on some current labour issues.

The Speaker of the Plateau State House of Assembly, John Clark Dabwan, has resigned his position, prompting the House to adopt the member representing Bokkos Constituency, Titus Alams as the new Speaker.

Education stakeholders are divided on the decision taken by the Nigerian Union of Teachers, NUT, to commence a solidarity strike in support of striking university lecturers.