Labour party governorship candidate in the June 21 election in Ekiti State, Mr Opeyemi Bamidele has vowed not to collect salaries and emoluments throughout his four-year tenure, if elected.

ABUJA—WITH clear unanimity, delegates, yesterday, decried the increasing rate of insecurity and corruption in the country, noting that unless these two problems were adequately tackled, the country’s search for peace might remain elusive.

ABEOKUTA—Ogun State Government has released N1.5 billion for the payment of gratuities to pensioners and severance package of former political office holders.

The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) technical committee will meet on April 26 in Abuja to deliberate on the country’s plans for the World Cup in Brazil.

The Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) has warned quoted companies that are yet to file in their financial statements ended December 31, 2013 to do so within the next one month or face appropriate sanctions.

GRADUATES in the Niger Delta region, under the auspices of Graduates Association of the Niger Delta, GAND, have described the alarm raised by the House of Representatives over the private jet saga involving the Minister of Petroleum, Mrs. Diezani Allison-Madueke as a calculated attempt to kill the Petroleum Industry Bill, PIB.

electricity from the Democratic Republic of Congo.

The Minister of Power, Prof. Chinedu Nebo, who said this in Abuja, explained that no such agreement had been entered into or signed.

Scores of youths, women and men, yesterday, protested on the streets of Warri, Delta State, demanding the release of their son, Chief James Ibori by the London Court on the case coming up on tomorrow saying that the court should release Ibori since it has no evidence against him.

THE Management of Pipelines and Products Marketing Company, PPMC, has blamed the lingering scarcity of premium motor spirit, PMS, otherwise called petrol across the country on lack of payment of subsidy claims to oil marketers.

THE real estate sector has the potential of running into N5 trillion within the next five years. Project Director of Prime Exchange Limited, a real estate multi-level marketing organisation, Mr.Olarewanju Mabinuori, made this disclosure at the “3rd Achievers’ Nights and Awards” organised by his organisation in Lagos.

EXPERTS have said that Nigeria is not making progress in products exporting to the United States of America under the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) due to poor packaging and not observing environmental laws.

The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission, NERC, has granted operatinglicence to international oil company, Mobil Producing Nigeria Unlimited, MPN, to build and operate a 575-megawatt power plant in Eket,AkwaIbom State.

Abuja — Respite seems to have finally come the way of former governor of Abia State, Chief Orji Uzor Kalu in his quest to rejoin the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as his entreaties to the party’s officials at the national secretariat is said to be paying off currently.

DELEGATES at the National Conference have been urged to critically examine the remote and immediate causes of the epileptic power supply in the country with a view to finding lasting solution to them.