A group, Third Force Movement, has expressed worry over the delay in conducting a re-run election to fill the vacant seat of late Mr Tonye Harry who represented Degema constituency in Rivers State House of Assembly before he passed on in October last year.

ACTING-governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Mrs. Sarah Alade, yesterday, urged stakeholders to sincerely embrace the cashless policy of the bank, so as to curb corruption in Nigeria and meet the vision 2020 requirement, which according to her, will modernise the country’s payment system.

Teachers in Edo State, under the aegis of Secondary School Tutors, have dragged the state government before the National Industrial Court sitting in Akure, Ondo State, contending that the state government was not competent to conduct competency test for them

FEDERAL government is taking steps to move the Nigerian Postal Services, NIPOST from the traditional personal delivery system to online platform to facilitate the nation’s digital inclusion plan.

MINISTER of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Allison-Madueke, has said that the only solution to the problems in the petroleum industry, especially the scarcity of petroleum products, was the privatisation of refineries in the country.

Governor Gabriel Suswam of Benue State, Monday, afternoon escaped death by the whiskers when his convoy was ambushed by Fulani herdsmen who engaged his security aides in exchange of gunfire at Tee‑Akanyi village in Guma local government area of the state.

NATIONAL leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, yesterday, shifted by one week, its earlier scheduled primary election to get its standard bearer for the June 21, 2014, Ekiti State gubernatorial election.

ENUGU — The Move-ment for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, yesterday, dismissed as baseless the claim by Enugu State police command that it (MASSOB) was responsible for last Saturday attack on Enugu Government House.

ABIA State governor, Chief Theodore Orji, has dismissed insinuations that President Goodluck Jonathan was marginalising Ndigbo, saying those who harboured such views were enemies of the Igbo.

“This will not only affect the container traffic but also other traffic like wheat and cement. It’s a gradual process and we will definitely increase our market share. But we have to understand that the trailers will not just disappear automatically from the road, it will take awhile.”