Staff of the Federal Medical Centre, Owerri, have commenced a three-day warning strike to protest the ongoing plan by the hospital management to privatize some of the units and departments in the establishment.

Controversy continues to trail the transfer of ownership of the Joint Venture, JV, partnership in Oil Mining Leases OML 40 and OML 42 by the Federal Government through the Ministry of Petroleum Resources to Neconde Energy Nigeria Limited and Elcrest Exploration and Production Limited.

A landlord, identified as Chief Sunday Udiongo, and his two tenants, have been rendered homeless, following a fire that gutted his three flats located at Ibok Street, yesterday morning, in Eket Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State.

Fear has heightened in Bayelsa State over the whereabouts of a Lebanese national and his police escort, who were abducted last week by armed men allegedly dressed in military camouflage, around the Ox-Bow Lake area of Ogu in Yenagoa Local Government Area of the state.

With the northern rugby followership heating up for the kick off of the 2015 league season, Head of the Northern Technical Sub Committee Eusebius P Yayock is confident that Rugby fans and supporters are in for a swell time based on the improvements already made by clubs and the organizer of the league.

Members of the Gbaramatu/Egbema Host Communities Welders and Fitters (Escravos) have implored Chevron Nigeria Limited, CNL, to prevail on its contractors to comply with the Nigerian Local Content Law by engaging more local unemployed professionals to avoid crippling its Escravos tank farm, flow stations and offshore fields.

The All Progressives Congress, APC, House of Representatives candidate for Ukanafun/Oruk Anam federal constituency, Akwa-Ibom State, Mr Eshiet Offiong, has petitioned the Inspector General of Police, Mr Solomon Arase, over alleged threat to his life.

Stephen Keshi, the Head Coach of the Super Eagles, on Thursday in Abuja released a list of 26 home-based players for the team’s camp scheduled to open on May 19.

The first grandchild of the creator of Afrobeat music, Fela Anikulapo Kuti, aka Abami Eda, Rolari Segun, is set to quit the singles’ club.

Rolari, who is a product of the marriage between Fela’s first daughter, Yeni Kuti and the late Femi Segun, son of famous writer, Mabel Segun, will be getting married to an Australian author, Benedict Jacka come June 27, 2015, at the New Afrikan Shrine, Agidingbi, Ikeja, Lagos.

The Federal Government on Thursday heeded the appeals of the organised private sector (OPS) with the harmonisation of various governments tax and levies operational nationwide.