NATIONAL Disciplinary Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, headed by Second Republic Minister of Transport, Alhaji Umaru Dilkko, yesterday, asked the Bamanga Tukur led National Working Committee, NWC, to expel from the party the suspended former governor of Osun State and National Secretary of the party, Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola.

IN view of challenges facing your sector, how secure is gratuity payment for your members at retirement?
I want to say that gratuity which is separated from pension is still on. The gratuity is not a new phenomenon in the industry. However, there are moves by employers to discontinue it arising from the emergence of contributory pension scheme.

Justice Christopher Balogun of Lagos State High Court, Igbosere, yesterday withdrew in the trial of a 33 year old commercial bus driver, Quadri Kasali charged with alleged attempted murder of a Lagos judge, Justice Ebenezer Adebajo.

Senator Uche Chukwumerije representing Abia North, PDP, has said that the controversy trailing the November 16th governorship election was a signal of looming danger in the country.

To celebrate its strong links with Nigeria and the new office which was recently opened in Lagos, Sheffield Hallam University, UK is offering a £3,000 automatic discount on tuition fees to Nigerian domiciled students.

GOVERNOR Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State has inaugurated a panel of inquiry to probe the suspended Chairman, Vice Chairman and Councillors of Orhionmwon Local Government Area of the state, who allegedly travelled to Italy without permission.

STRIKING members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, have called on Nigerians to disregard the comments made by the Minister of Education, Nyesom Wike that the union was making new outrageous demands, saying it was a blatant lie.

THE Senate, through its Ad-hoc Committee on Subsidy Reinvestment and Empowerment Programme, SURE-P, yesterday, tackled the FCT Minister, Bala Moha-mmed, for allegedly injecting N500 million on rehabilitation of National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, camp in Abuja.

The Movement for the Actualization of Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, yesterday at Okpoko Layout in the suburban area of the commercial city of Onitsha, AnambraState, arrested a robbery suspect armed with a locally made pistol.

National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, yesterday, expressed shock at the defection of five governors on the platform of the party to the opposition All Progressives Congress, APC, declaring that the governors went too far by dumping the ruling party.

IT is best to start at the beginning. I was born in October 1939 in Ugborodo, DeltaState of Nigeria, the first child of my father and only male child of my parents.

AHEAD of 2015 Presidential election, chairman, Northern States Governors’ Forum, NSGF and governor of Niger State, Babangida Aliyu said yesterday that former Vice President Atiku Abubakar remains the best president Nigeria as a country was yet to have.

The 24 banks in the country suffered 18 per cent decline in liquidity ratio in the third quarter of the economy, despite total assets rising to N23.3 trillion.

Even as one tree is believed to not make a forest, at the least, “ It (One tree) can start a forest, as One step must also start each journey, said, it is up to every individual,” this dictum, as predicated on ‘The Power of One,’ forms the focus of this edition of the annual Speech and Prize-Giving Day, of the Corona Secondary School (CSS) Agbara, Ogun State, in her clear determination to rouse consciousness of the students and Nigerians in order that all may chase vibrant visions and be instrumental for change for the profound benefit nation.

Majority of Nigerian Lawyers are of the opinion that the Administration of Justice in Nigeria is very slow and inefficient. Furthermore, they opined that the inefficiency of the system is mostly as a result of the delays caused by legal practitioners. This was the result of a recent survey carried out recently and revealed at the Nigerian Bar Association’s Section on Legal Practice Conference in Makurdi, Benue State.