The Federal Government has called for collaboration of oil and gas companies to eradicate oil spillage and its harmful effect on the environment.

NATIONAL Un ion of Chemical, Footwear, Rubber, Leather and Non-Metallic Products Employees, NUCFRLANMPE, yesterday called on the National Assembly, to do more to arrest the rising cases of slave labour in the country through proactive and punitive legislation.

A call has gone to the Federal Government to establish cancer screening centres in the six geo-political zones of the country.

THE Progressive Peoples Alliance, PPA, in Anambra State has commended President Goodluck Jonathan for the measures being taken by the Federal Government to combat the dreaded Ebola Virus ravaging some West African countries.

Barely 24 hours after a demonstration of soldiers’ wives at the Maimalari Barracks in Maiduguri, Borno State, hundreds of their counterparts at the 21 Armoured Brigade in Giwa Barracks, yesterday, staged a peaceful demonstration at the entrance of the Barracks, to protest the purported deployment of their husbands to war torn zone in Bama and Gwoza Local Government Areas of Borno State.

Few days after the visit of the National President of the Cattle Rearers Association to Zamfara State, to reconcile the warning farmers/fulanis clans, no fewer than 23 were reported to have lost their lives in Hura Girke village of Wonaka district of Gusau Local Government Area of the state.

President Goodluck Jonathan, yesterday, described the late American-Liberian, Patrick Sawyer’s visit that heralded the entry of the dreaded Ebola Virus Disease, EVD, into the country, as “pure madness.”

As political activities begin to gather momentum across Oyo State ahead of the 2015 governorship election, the question on the lips of many residents of the state is, who will the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) present as its candidate to confront at the polls the incumbent Senator Abiola Ajimobi who is increasingly becoming so unpopular to the extent that he is virtually ripe for the picking

A governorship aspirant on the platform of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) in Imo State, Okey Ezeh, who is entrepreneur and CEO of Savvycorp Limited, a leading investment advisory and management consultancy firm as well as the Executive Chairman of Okechukwu Theodore Ezeh Foundation (OTEF), in this interview speaks among others on how APGA will reclaim Imo from the All Progressives Congress (APC) in 2015

The new cement regulation policy recently introduced by the Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON) has been described as ill-advised and a selective move calculated at creating an environment detrimental to the survival of cement manufacturers in Nigeria

The battle to find a replacement for the Niger East Senatorial seat following the death of Senator Awaisu Kuta is throwing up a piercing constitutional cum political argument

A 28-year Madona University computer science graduates, Mr. Chinonso Okezuo has emerged winner of Ford Ranger Odyssey 2014 competition held in Lagos recently. Chinonso beat four other contestants including a female driver to emerge winner in the tough competition.

THE Edo State chairman of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Benin, said that the party will provide a level playing ground for all those aspiring for political offices on its platform during its primaries.

Warring groups in Plateau State communities have regretted their actions, which they say had cost them development and pledge to lay down their arms for peace to thrive in the zone.

Togo want next month’s Africa Cup of Nations game in Guinea to be moved because of fears about the Ebola virus.