Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan of Delta State, has said that the volume of oil theft in the Niger Delta had reduced from 100,000 barrels to 40,00 barrels per day.

A former member of the Senate, Senator Grace Bent, has called for the emergence of a female vice president in the country.

The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission, ICPC, in partnership with the National Orientation Agency, NOA, has resolved to keep the public abreast of corruption prone-processes in their daily activities, as means of tackling the vice in the country.

Residents and political observers in the state are waiting anxiously to see how Ajimobi will escape falling into the same pits which the previous governors fell into.

Association of Senior Civil Servants of Nigeria, ASCSN, yesterday, in Lagos, insisted that federal public workers were yet to be paid December 2013 salary and asked the government to discharge its elementary function of paying workers their December 2013 salary and outstanding arrears since July 2013, instead of embarking on propaganda that it was not owing its employees.

AT least five commissioners in the Lagos State cabinet and all three senators from the state are under consideration to succeed Governor Babatunde Fashola in the gubernatorial election due about a year from now.
The eight are among 19 jostling for the ticket of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, which is working out permutations to stop the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, from making any head-way in the election.

The Federal Government has urged the state governments and local governments to adopt the national policy on productivity, aimed at boosting productivity
Meanwhile, the deputy governor of Lagos state, Mrs. Adejoke Orelope-Adefulire has tasked the civil servants in the country to use the upcoming year to rededicate themselves to selfless service.

The year, 2013 passed on without any significant result to show by the House of Representatives, particularly in the areas of probes.
By the time the House went on the yuletide break the House had carried out more than 32 probes covering all the segments of the Nigerian society.

Amid allegations of imposition of candidates in some local government areas, Governor Jonah Jang of Plateau State has promised that the local government election scheduled for the end of this month would be credible.

Ahead of the 2015 general elections, a Lagos-based non-governmental and non-partisan group, Arise Lagos, AL, has expressed readiness to mobilise over one million youths to actively participate in the polls in the state.

A group, Crusade for Democracy and Good Governance, CDGG, yesterday, described as petty and mischievous, media reports credited to former Minister of State for Education, Chief Kenneth Gbagi, that Delta State deputy governor, Prof. Amos Utuama, should quit politics in 2015.

In an unprecedented manner it was all fun galore at Ibeju-Lekki area of Lagos last Sunday, as about 2,000 Lagos kids converged at the popular Eleko Beach to engage in an end of the year party with alot of prizes won by lucky winners.

Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan of Delta State has described the Managing Director of Obakpo Engineering Limited, Olorogun John Oguma, as one of the most outstanding contractors in the state, expressing satisfaction with the quality of his jobs.

President of Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, Dr Nasir Fagge, yesterday said the union would build on the gains of its 2013 struggles this year.
Fagge said in a signed in Abuja that 2013 was a year of struggle to salvage the Nigerian education system from the grip of Bretton-Woods institutions’.

“I want justice to be done on this matter. My son was murdered in cold blood. Whoever did this must face the law, justice must be done. The soldier whom I understand is a Sergeant, Ismaila Adediran must face justice. This is what will satisfy my family”.