ABUJA — The Federal Government announced last week in Abuja that it has concluded arrangements for the payment of severance package to another batch of 1,669 staff retirees and Next of Kin of the defunct Power Holding Company of Nigeria, PHCN. The Implementation Committee on Payment of Power Holding Company of Nigeria, PHCN, terminal benefits of the Bureau of Public Enterprises, BPE, has released the time-table for the payments of severance benefits in nine Centres across the country.

MINISTER of Works, Mr Mike Onolememen, has assured Nigerians that the Benin section of the Benin-Auchi-Lokoja Road dualisation project would soon be completed.

GOVERNORSHIP candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Dr. Dakuku Peterside, yesterday, unveiled his four-point agenda for the state if elected governor in the February election.

Professor Viola Onwuliri, the Minister of State for Education, and Deputy Coordinator, Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Presidential Campaign in the state, has said President Goodluck Jonathan will win Imo State in the forthcoming polls.

GOVERNOR Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State has said that the subterranean move by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP-led Federal Government to postpone the February general elections was a futile attempt to postpone the evil day.

Activities did not commence fully on Monday at Federal High Court in Lagos, following the suspension of the three-week- old strike by Judiciary Staff Union of Nigeria, JUSUN.

SOME aggrieved governorship aspirants who had distanced themselves since the former Senate leader, Senator Teslim Folarin was picked as the party’s governorship candidate for the February 28 polls have returned and joined the candidate in his campaign.

All Progressives Congress, APC, has challenged the Chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Prof. Attahiru Jega to be forthright in his decision in making sure that the February elections hold.

THE Minister of Environment, Mrs Laurentia Mallam, yesterday, said that the Federal Government embarked on the N9.6 billion cooking stove project to save women and children, who were dying due to smoke inhaled from firewood on daily basis.

74 days into the strike called by Joint Health Sector Union, striking heath workers have appealed to President Goodluck Jonathan to save Nigerians from needless deaths.

Minister of State for Works, Prince Dayo Adeyeye has threatened to file a N10 billion libel suit against the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Ekiti State and its spokesperson, Taiwo Olatubosun over claims that the Federal Government paid N22 billion to Ekiti State government as refund on construction of Federal roads in the state.

Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State has approved the payment of 27.5 percent Teachers’ Special Allowance and implementation of other demands of the Nigeria Union of Teachers, NUT, in the state.

ABUJA — The Federal Government, yesterday, announced plans to build modular refineries with capacity of between 10,000 and 25,000 barrels per day to boost domestic fuel supply.

Governor Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa Stats has said that President Goodluck Jonathan’s re-election bid could only be made possible through the collective efforts of leaders of the Ijaw nation and their sincerity of purpose.

ABUJA — The Trans Forcados oil pipeline has again been vandalised at Oteghele axis in Bayelsa State by yet-to-be identified persons, causing a crude oil spill in the area.