lagos —A FORMER governorship candidate in Lagos State, Mr. Jimi Agbaje, has said that national transformation can only come about if the elites are actively involved in politics.

There is confusion in Ugbuwangue community in Warri, Delta State, as hundreds of indigenes of the community, yesterday, challenged the right of one of their leader, Pa. Agindotan Yonwuren to allegedly sell part of their market to a politician without their knowledge.

Noah’s Ark Communications Limited, organisers of the three-day workshop on Creative Photography and Makeup for students of Wasimi Community Senior School, Maryland, has said that the initiative was to boost the practice of photo-journalism and entrepreneurship among youths.

Creative Alliance, organisers of Literary Star Search contest, in association with WriteHouse Collective, a creative enterprise, culture and arts firm, will convene the January edition of Artmosphere, the quintessential music, poetry, performance and arts event in Nigeria in Ibadan. Significantly, winner of the 2012 edition of the N1 million short story prize contest will be announced.

Naija’s Most Wanted, a musical concert often staged as one of the top notch events during the Calabar Christmas Festival has never failed to live up to its billing as one of Nigeria’s top-flight music concerts.

Human rights activist, Mr Shehu Sani, who facilitated the aborted dialogue between former President Olusegun Obasanjo and the Boko Haram sect said, yesterday, that the insecurity in the country had transformed into a money-making venture for politicians and many in the security services.

In the last three years, the situation of human rights in Nigeria has deteriorated more than in any other time in our history since the civil war. It is time to call up activists, NGOs and democrats to the trenches: marshalling the strategies and combativeness with which we fought the military regimes.

Section 30 of the Pension Reform Act 2004 established the Civil Service Pension Department; the Military Pension Department; the Police Pension Department; the Customs, Immigration and Prisons Pension Department and the Security Agencies Pension Department and called the departments, Pension Transitional Arrangement Departments.

Nigeria Association of Chambers of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture (NACCIMA), has said that President Jonathan’s pronouncement may have relieved Nigerians of the burden of doubts over the removal of subsidy on fuel in 2013, but normalcy is yet to return to all fuel stations.

AGGRIEVED Nigeria Postal Service, NIPOST, pensioners, Wednesday, shut down all post office operations in Lagos over 69 months unpaid pension arrears and gratuities, lamenting that no fewer than 421 of them had died for lack of money to take care of their medical and other needs.

THE palace of the Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi, has been gutted by fire.

Nigeria Captain Joseph Yobo will play in his sixth Africa Cup of Nations finals after making the final list of 23 released on Wednesday night by Coach Stephen Keshi.

Zambia’s squad for the Africa Cup of Nations in South Africa will include 19 of the players that won the 2012 edition in Gabon and Equatorial Guinea.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Wednesday, arrested two Imo government officials for fraud related charges.

The agency’s interrogators are currently quizzing Imo State Commissioner of Finance, Deacon Okafor Chike John, and Accountant-General of the state, Eche Ezenna George.

A Federal High Court sitting in Owerri has been urged to decide whether the indigenous people of Biafra, who survived the Nigeria-Biafra war of 1967-1970, have the right to self-determination.