The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, Trade Union Congress, TUC and the Joint Public Service Negotiation Council, JPSNC, in Bauchi State, have ordered their members to embark on an indefinite strike with effect from today, May 13, 2015, if the state government failed to pay them their outstanding March and April salaries.

The Niger Deltan Progressives League, a political pressure group campaigning for change in the region, has accused the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, of surreptitiously seeking to hoodwink the All Progressives Congress, APC, into believing there is need for a government of national unity in the incoming administration of President-Elect, General Muhammadu Buhari.

ABEOKUTA—The Olowo of Owo in Yewa South local government,area of Ogun state, Oba Patrick Fasinu has refuted the allegation that he was planning to assassinate a princes from another ruling house. The monarch was accused of planning to execute Prince Segun Rufai, the prince of late Oba Babatunde Alao who was one for the founding fathers of the Owo community in the state.

OSOGBO—Resident doctors at Ladoke Akintola University, Teaching Hospital, Osogbo, yesterday staged a peaceful protest at the premises of State Assembly, Gbongan Road, Osogbo against non-payment of their six months salary by Osun state government. The protesting doctors, who told journalists that living had become difficult in the last six months owing to the situation, carried placards with different inscriptions, demanding immediate payment of their salaries and for duration of the protest, prevented vehicular movement in and out of the assembly complex.

ABEOKUTA—The dreaded Yoruba-farmers’ group, the Agbekoya has declared that the role played by the pan-Yoruba socio-political organization, Afenifere and the the Odua Peoples Congress, OPC, in the just-concluded general elections has made them lose credibility in Yorubaland. The Secretary of the Agbekoya, Dr. Ade Ogunlana in a statement he jointly signed with the Ambassador of the society, Chief Ajibola Salau said the role played by the two Yoruba groups during the polls left much to be desired.

THE Kaduna State government yesterday said it has never owed its 30,000 workforce a penny since its inception two years ago.

THE discovery that about 214 abducted women, who were rescued recently from Sambisa forest are pregnant, has thrown the nation into a dilemma. There are fears that they may have been impregnated by the Boko Haram insurgents. Indeed, the implications of the development were not lost on Borno State Governor, Alhaji Kassim Shettima, who lamented that the terrorists deliberately impregnated the women to breed a new generation of terrorists.

By Tabia Princwill EVERY time Nigeria’s size or ethno-religious diversity are used as excuses to explain our country’s lack of development, I am forced to argue that many other countries across the globe have experienced these same challenge laced opportunities and yet, have not continuously sacrificed the common good on the altar of political greed. […]

Former Ghana and Benin coach Cecil Jones Attuquayefio has died at the age of 70, following a long battle with cancer. local media reported on Tuesday.

EX-Militant leaders and youths from the Niger Delta under the aegis of Niger Delta Ethnic Nationalities Youth Leaders Movement, NDENYLM, yesterday, charged the national leadership of All Progressives Congress, APC, to show appreciation to the commitment and doggedness of Governors Adams Oshiomhole (Edo) and Rotimi Amaechi (Rivers) by ceding the speakership of the House of Representatives to the South South.

National Coordinator, Nigeria Democrat and Equity Mandate Vanguard, a pan-Nigeria mandate group, Mallam Inusa Gaidam, has appealed to the leadership of the All Progressives Congress, APC, to consider zoning the speakership of the House of Representatives to the South-South geo-political zone.

A new magistrate court complex in Ogba, comprising 22 courtrooms, was yesterday commissioned by Lagos State Governor, Babatunde Fashola.

The court complex was named after former Lagos State Chief Judge, Justice Samuel Ilori.

“Enjoying a hitch-free retirement goes beyond receiving a lump-sum and regular programmed withdrawal from one’s Retirement Savings Account (RSA). It requires in-depth planning and profound mental and psychological conditioning of the retiring worker to equip him to seamlessly adjust to a different kind of life after decades of service to society.

Nigerians are communal people by nature. In the past, people of the same community do things in common to the extent that when a bread winner of a family dies, members of his community come together to bring up his children. Unfortunately, that kind of communal living is fast fading out. The world is changing fast and Nigeria is not left behind. As the world becomes a global village, the community living is disappearing and everyone is concerned about his immediate family and welfare.

The Bank of Industry (BoI) disbursed N127 billion loans in support of Medium and Small Scale Enterprises in (MSMEs) in 2014 financial year at N127billion Chairman, Board of Directors, BoI, Alhaji Abdulsamad Rabiu, said at the bank’s 55th Annual General Meeting, held in Abuja, that the bank was able to wade through the nation’s challenging business environment to achieve loans and advances of N544.3 billion in 2014.