MRS security beats up DPR officer
THE Security operatives of the MRS Oil and Gas Company severely beat up a representative of the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) for taking shots with his camera during the explosion that rocked its storage facility last week.
Nigeria deploys troops to Mali
Nigerian troops will be deployed to Mali where militants have launched an insurgent attack on the northern part of the country and are threatening to over run the state capital Bamako.
President Goodluck Jonathan who stated this in Abuja, Monday, said Nigerian troops will be deployed before next week to Mali to help restore peace to that country.
Gunmen kill two policemen in Kano
Two policemen were killed by unknown gunmen at a checkpoint , Monday, in Kano.
Eyewitness says the incident occured around 4pm when the gunmen in tricycles attacked the policemen at a checkpoint located at Ringroad by Tishama junction in Kano.
FCT unveils plans to resettle 8,000 indigenes
The Minister of State for the Federal Capital Territory, Oloye Olajumoke Akinjide last week, announced plans to resettle nine communities of over 8,000 indigenes in the FCT before June this year.
Labour accuses FG of refusing to commission NIPP projects
ORGANISED labour in the nation’s Power sector has accused the Federal Government of refusing to commission the completed National Integrated Power Projects (NIPPs), thus denying Nigerians from benefitting from the projects.
Oyinlola asks Appeal Court to void his sack
Sacked National Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and former Governor of Osun State, Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola has approached the Abuja Division of the Appeal Court, begging it to invoke its powers and reinstate him.
Pilot killed in France military drive in Mali ‘was doing his job – mother
The mother of a helicopter pilot who died in Mali during a French-backed military drive to stop Islamist radicals from advancing southwards was merely doing his job, his mother said Monday.
Air pollution reduces visibility in Beijing, Chain
Public anger in China at dangerous levels of air pollution, which blanketed Beijing in acrid smog, spread Monday as state media queried official transparency and the nation’s breakneck development.
World’s largest religious festival holds in India
Millions of Hindu pilgrims led by naked ash-covered holy men streamed into the sacred river Ganges on Monday, for a record-breaking start to the world’s biggest religious festival.
CPC appoints committee for merger talks
The Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) said on Monday it had selected 18 members to serve on its Alliance and Merger Committee for discussions with other opposition parties.
British, Russian scientists develop new treatment to combat deadly chemical agents
Experts at the University of Sheffield, England and Shemyakin-Ovchinnikov Institute, Moscow, have devloped an enzyme treatment which could neutralise the effects of lethal chemicals known as Organophosphorus agents responsible for death of at least 200,000 persons each year across the world.
