ORGANISED labour in the nation’s power sector has said over 50,000 former employees of the defunct Power Holding Company of Nigeria, PHCN, are still being owed benefits, while over 5,000 have not received any entitlement at all more than two years after the privatisation of power assets.

TO deepen Nigeria’s democracy and improve on the gains of the 2015 general elections leading politicians in the country will hold a three-day meeting in January.

Senator Magnus Abe, who represented Rivers South-East senatorial district in the last dispensation, has denied attacking the judiciary after the tribunal dismissed his petition challenging the result of the last senatorial election in his area.

THE Nigerian Export Promotion Council has said that the country’s earnings from non-oil exports dropped by N52.2billion ($261million) in the second quarter of this year.

Despite scoring Chevron Nigeria Limited, CNL, 80 percent in promoting local content development against industry average of 60 percent, the management of Dharmattan Nigeria Limited, still wants the multinational oil company to do more in the area of international partnerships.

ABAKALIKI—NO fewer than three persons were last week shot dead, while five others sustained gunshot wounds in different parts of their bodies as rival cult groups clashed in Abakaliki, Ebonyi State.

LAGOS — Egbin Power, yesterday, declared that the Federal Government owes the generation company, Genco, between N38 billion and N39 billion for electricity generated but not paid for.

Lagos—Residents and registered trustees of Alpha Bay Estate Association in Lekki area of Lagos has filed a N200 million suit against a property company, Admiralty Homes Limited and its Chairman, Mr. Dun Salami, before a Lagos State High Court at Igbosere, over alleged breach of contract.

ABDUCTORS of a Yenagoa-based clergyman, Pastor Mark Christmas of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, RCCG, “New Anointing Chapel”, are demanding N30 milion ransom for his freedom.

The Nigerian Navy said it had adopted a new training regime that would improve troop’s proficiency in internal security operations in the country.

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Former Governor Sullivan Chime of Enugu State, his two sons, Nnamdi and Tochuckwu, yesterday, filed a counter affidavit in opposition to an applicant’s motion for judicial review seeking to compel the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, to investigate his actions as governor during his eight years tenure allegedly fraught with misappropriation of public funds and abuse of office.

LAGOS—In a renewed fight against fake and substandard drugs in the state, Lagos State Task Force on Counterfeit and Fake Drugs and Unwholesome Processed Foods has sealed 33 pharmacy and patent medicine outlets, even as it impounds fake drugs worth millions of Naira in Ojo area of the state.

Former Niger Delta Minister, Elder Godsday Orubebe, has denied allegations of corruption levelled against him by the Code of Conduct Tribunal, claiming that he is being framed for his unalloyed support for former President Goodluck Jonathan.

At a time Nigerian firms are complaining that the international oil companies, IOCs are not domiciling enough jobs in country for local service companies, some of those working for Chevron Nigeria Limited, CNL, have a different testimony.