VANGUARD’S Arts Editor, Mr.Mcphillips Nwachukwu, is dead. He died at Golden Cross hospital, Festac Town, Lagos after he suffered a choking cough in the early hours of Sunday, September 29, 2013. He was aged 47.

Imo State branch of Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions, NASU, has vowed to resist the current plan by the state government to relocate the library to Area N, New Owerri.
The State Chairman of NASU, Nze Obinna Okafor, made the stand of the union known while reacting to the relocation threat issued by Governor Rochas Okorocha a few days’ ago.

NIGERIA Labour Congress, NLC, yesterday petitioned the Inspector-General of Police, IGP, Mohammed Abubakar, protesting alleged recent tear-gassing and brutalisation in Port Harcourt of newly-recruited teachers in Rivers State who had gathered at the instance of the State’s Universal Basic Education Board to receive their letters of posting.

THE World Bank Group is to undertake its biggest financing programmein the Nigeria’s power sector, never seen anywhere else in the world.

DEPUTY governor of Delta State, Prof. Amos Utuama, SAN, yesterday, said that the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, was the only party that could deliver the Urhobo nation politically, urging the people to vote enmasse for the party in the October 12 senatorial bye-election.

A United Kingdom court yesterday ordered a retrial of assets confiscation case against former Governor James Ibori of Delta State to enable the prosecution gather enough evidence.

Association of Bureaux De Change Operators of Nigeria (ABCON) said it fully supports recent measures of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to check money laundering, and other malpractice in the foreign exchange market.

WOrried by indiscriminate setting up of medicine stores across the country, the Association of Community Pharmacists of Nigeria, ACPN, has threatened to sanction pharmacy outlets that fail to procure and mount the new neon sign bearing the Community Pharmacy Rx emblem as from October 1, 2013.

PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan has assured Nigerians that the proposed National Conference will firm up the country’s unity and not threaten its corporate existence.

NIGERIA’S petroleum industry have come a long way from its over 57 years of commercial oil production, but perhaps the most significant period, in terms of local input and benefits to Nigerians have been since the advent of President Jonathan’s administration.