AWKA—A group, Ikemba Front, has denied media reports that the Peoples Democratic Party,PDP, was plotting to stop former Central Bank of Nigeria governor, Prof. Chukwuma Soludo, from emerging as the flag-bearer of All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, in the November 16 governorship election in Anambra State.

The National Federation challenged this agreement, maintaining that the IRC had acted ultra vires its authority in concluding such a bargain. The National Federation sought a declaration to that effect and an order of mandamus compelling the IRC to collect taxes owed prior to the two-limit agreed by the IRC. The IRC challenged the National Federation, claiming that it lacked locus standi to bring the action.

The Second-in-Command to Abubakar Shekau, the Boko Haram leader, Momodu Bama, has been killed during an encounter with troops around the Bama corridor as a video of how Boko Haram slaughtered its victims was shown to a group of senators during a security briefing by JTF in Maiduguri, Borno State capital.

It is not uncommon to hear students on their Industrial Attachment (IT) or internship lament over their unpleasant experiences, especially the challenges encountered in the process of finding a firm to accommodate and support them financially

AP Moller Terminals,APMT,the largest container terminal in West Africa, has apologized to the Maritime Workers Union of Nigeria, MWUN and its President-General, Nted Emmanuel Anthony, over recent uncomplimentary press remarks.

Oil producing communities in Ondo State have threatened to embark on a mass action, if their request for the direct payment of 13 percent derivation funds is not acceded to.

Analysts at the Financial Derivatives Company (FDC) Limited predicted inflation rate of 8.7 per cent for July. “Our forecast for Nigeria’s headline inflation in July indicated a 0.37 per cent increase to 8.77 per cent (±0.22%) from June’s 8.4 per cent”, they said in the FDC Economic Bulletin for August.

It must be adequately realised that Election Petitions are a unique branch of civil disputes that strive to determine whether the sovereign will of the people prevailed or was subverted in an electoral process. Thus, the central focus of an Election Petition is certainly not the criminal conviction of so-called electoral offenders but, the broader determination of whether the declared outcome of an electoral contest was wholly reflective of the majority’s votes or otherwise. An Election Tribunal should therefore only seek to determine the extent to which the popular will is reflected in electoral outcomes and do clear substantial justice thereof.

…SURE-P to employ 50,000 graduates
Jos—The Plateau State House of Assembly is to ascertain the total amount that has accrued to the state from the Sure-P Programme of the Federal Government since inception and why the state is not involved in all aspects of the programme.

Abuja—The Federal Government has charged surveyors in the country to come up with an articulate policy that could engender uniform and reliable geo-spatial information on disasters.

ABUJA—AHEAD of August 24 Anambra State primary election of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, the leadership of the party yesterday made a u-turn and cleared Tony Nwoye and Ugochukwu Okeke who were earlier disqualified by the screening committee.

LONDON stool still for Africa, weekend, as African fashion buffs, art entrepreneurs, politicians, designers, super models, and celebrities met in the prestigious Dorchester Hotel, London for the inaugural African Arts and Fashion Banquet to raise funds to support endowed designers from Africa. The banquet marked the end of this year’s edition of Africa Fashion Week London which started two days earlier.

IJAPA and Friends, is the second of England-based Adefemi Adebajo’s series of tortoise stories drawn from the vast repertoire of Yoruba folklore. Published in 2013, in the United Kingdom, by El Roi Publications Limited, Ijapa and Friends, one of the most recent story books plotted on the hub of trickster tales – tortoise tales, comprises 14 fables (each assigned about six pages), spread across 14 chapters. These are inextricably linked by a dominant character named Ijapa – Yoruba word for tortoise, ‘the cunning and wise tortoise’, according to the blurb on the back of the publication, who is ‘always getting into trouble’ as seen in virtually all the stories in the volume.

The PRA 2004 provides for the payment of a Minimum Pension Guarantee (MPG) to RSA holders who have contributed for a number of years under the CPS. However, the Act did not make provision for the funding of the MPG. Accordingly, the PRA 20013 Bill provides for the establishment of a Pension Protection Fund (PPF) which would be used as part-funding for the MPG as well as compensation to pensioners in the unlikely event of financial losses sustained from investment of pension funds. The PPF will be funded through grants and contributions by the Commission and pension operators.

THE National Social Insurance Trust Fund, NSITF, has said no fewer than 500,000 workers have keyed into the Employees Compensation Scheme, ECS. It has also paid over N200 million employees that were injured at workplaces since the commencement of ECS.