NEXT of Kins (NoKs) of the Federal Pensio-ners, yesterday, besieged the headquarters of the Pension Transitional Arrangement Directorate (PTAD) in Abuja over what they described as lackadaisical attitude of the management of PTAD towards their plights.

THE leadership of the All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA) in Bayelsa State yesterday raised an alarm over alleged attempts by some officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and the Peoples Democratic Party ,PDP, to thumb print and falsify the cancelled results of some units of Ewoama Ward of Brass Constituency II of Brass Local Government area of the state.

Naeto’s last real hit was ‘Tony Montana’ which was released in 2012. In today’s world, that’s almost as good as a century ago. Some believe marriage and fatherhood are the epicentre of the dashing rapper’s world now, and music has taken a back seat. He released a track ‘Helele’ featuring fellow Glo ambassador, Flavour last year, but it wasn’t much of a hit. Little wonder this artiste was dropped last week by MTN.

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“The former President Jonathan was surrounded by bad advisers who made him lose credibility. Buhari must not appoint ministers that he wouldn’t be able to control. The people in his cabinet should be accountable,” he said. When asked to highlight the areas of urgent need, he said, unstable policy, epileptic power outage, corruption, improper planning, high cost of governance.

“They were half way into the six months tenure when they were kicked out by the administration simply because they were appointed by the immediate past administration.

THE National Union of Electricity Employees, NUEE, South East zone has threatened to direct workers of the Enugu Electricity Distribution Company, EEDC to embark on industrial action if the alleged “dehumanising and slave treatment” being meted out to the workers by the management was not stopped forthwith.

The witness invited by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to testify against the staff of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and others who are standing trial for alleged stealing of over N8 billion mutilated currency notes was not allowed to stand in the witness box as one of the counsel to the second, third and fifth accused persons accused the trial judge, Justice Olayinka Faaji of a Federal High Court, Ibadan, of bias in his earlier ruling.

As Nigeria joined the rest of the world yesterday in celebrating this year’s International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking and the launch of the National Drug Control Master Plan (NDCMP) 2015-2019, the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has disclosed that between January and May 2015, the agency arrested 3,478 drug suspects and seized 170, 341.704kg of narcotic drugs.

For a speedy economic development with sound legislative process that would translate well on the citizens and as well cultivating Nigerian environment for foreign investment, Institute of Credit Administration has tasked the Buhari administration to form a sound policies through the legislative arm of the government. This it said at the induction exercise of new members recently in Lagos.

Ondo state Governor, Dr Olusegun Mimiko submitted on Friday that the state will soon assume the status of the number one Tourism Corridor in the country with its existing Tourism facilities added to the International Event Centre, otherwise known as The Dome, in Akure, the state capital almost completed.

Table-topping Sunshine Stars will tomorrow hope to consolidate on their lead when they confront Rangers International at the Nnamdi Azikwe Stadium in Enugu.

Counsel to the three accused persons who are currently standing trial on charges of conspiracy and kidnapping of Chairman of GUO Motors Limited, Chief Godwin Ubaka Okeke on Sunday, August 23, 2009 at the All Saints Anglican Church Cathedral, Onitsha, Anambra state, yesterday told an Onitsha High Court I presided over by Justice Alexander Okumah that their clients were never a party to the kidnap saga.

If you get up in the morning expecting a bad day, you’ll rarely disappoint yourself. It’s about me. I was always quacking and complaining, so I decided to change my attitude and become an eagle. I looked around at the other cabs and their drivers. The cabs were dirty, the drivers were unfriendly and the customers were unhappy.

I am a little confused about the things I hear and things I see. We seem to be romancing with a certain demon that ensures that we remain at the level of beginning all the time. My confusion is simple: when it appears as if there is going to be a measure of advancement, then we see ourselves slipping down again and I wonder; why? I ask, is it possible for us to, at least remain, at a spot, for some time, so that we don’t really degenerate. I am only asking that we be given the grace not the move at all since if we must, we always slide ‘downward’. There was a mad man, I mean a crazy man, not really an angry man, in my home some time ago who advanced this philosophy of “remaining where one is.” He had come to sympathize with some folks who were bereaved.