Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ, Lagos State Council, has commended the House of Representatives, for initiating a bill to criminalize late and non-payment of staff salaries by employers in the country.

A Federal High Court in Ibadan has ordered that eight constituencies should be added to the 32 seats of the Oyo State House of Assembly bringing the number of seats to 40.

Nigeria’s Flying Eagles drew 2-2 with Club Africain of Tunisia on Monday in Tunis in their last warm-up game before departing for the 2013 African Youth Championship (AYC) in Algeria.

Following vulnerability which residents in low-lying or flood prone areas of Lagos face during rainy seasons, the Lagos State Government at the weekend advised them to start thinking of alternative accommodation.

FEAR has gripped the people of Bayelsa State, following the early heavy rainfall experienced across the state in the last couple of days, which had left some areas flooded and billboards destroyed.

IJAW youths in Delta, Ondo and Edo states, have called on the national president of Ijaw Youths Council, IYC, Mr. Abiye Kuromiema, to commence moves to persuade Ijaw communities to back President Goodluck Jonathan for the 2015 general elections.

FORMER National Chairman of Traditional Rulers of Oil Minerals Producing Communities of Nigeria, TROMPCON, the Paramount Ruler of Siembiri Kingdom in Delta State, HRM Charles Ayemi-Botu, yesterday, said Northern leaders, who challenged President Goodluck Jonathan, weekend, to fish out Boko Haram members, who he (President) appropriately described as “ghosts” and “faceless,” were agents of the insurgents.

The Bauchi State Command of the Nigerian Peace Corps, NPC, has said that it would recruit more than 5,000 unemployed youths to complement the efforts of other security agencies in the state and ensure lasting peace in the state.

A coalition of ethnic and political pressure groups in the Niger Delta, under the aegis of United Niger Delta Energy Development Security Strategy, UNDEDSS, has called on the Federal Government to revoke all oil blocs given out by previous administrations to ensure equity and fairness in the country.

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