PORT HARCOURT—104 persons have been arrested at different locations in Port Harcourt for alleged electoral related offences.

Lagos—The National Air Traffic Controllers Association, NATCA, yesterday announced the suspension of its planned total shut down of Nigeria airspace by Monday, (today), due to the amicable resolution of its grievances by the Federal government. The Air Traffic Controllers have been agitating for harmonization of professional allowances with other professional groups in NAMA.

Ahead of the May date given by the military authorities for the final liberation of the vast Sambisa Forest and communities within from the remnants of Boko Haram terrorists, Chief of Defence Staff, Air Chief Marshal Alex Badeh has urged politicians to learn from the experience of the insurgency noting that it is a form of revolt against neglect and abandonment.

Leaders of the All Progressives Congress, APC will on Wednesday ratify the zoning of principal offices of the National Assembly and the composition of the Transition Technical Committee that is to interface with the transition committee established by President Goodluck Jonathan. The meeting of the National Executive Committee, NEC of the party follows two meetings of the National Working Committee, NWC of the party last week.

The Director General, Standards Organization of Nigeria (SON), Dr. Joseph Ikem Odumodu, entered his second year in February 2012 and started talking something quite different from his administration’s Six-point Agenda: a National Quality Policy which he said is vital and urgent for Nigeria to take solid stand on global trade.