Yenagoa—Health workers at the Federal Medical Centre, FMC, in Bayelsa State, yesterday, staged a peaceful protest over the alleged continued refusal of the Federal Government to discuss and approve the demands of the Joint Health Sector Union and Assembly of Health Care Professionals.

The National Open University of Nigeria, NOUN, has awarded degrees to three serving inmates alongside over 7,000 others in its 4th convocation ceremony held on Saturday.

THE Charles Bebeye Ndiomu Foundation, commemorating this year’s armed forces remembrance day with the Federal Government and particularly the Nigerian Armed Forces, in Lagos on Thursday, distributed scholarships to children of some of the deceased ranks and files of the Nigerian armed forces whose condition needed to be attended to due to the absence of their bread winners.

The Peoples Democratic Party has alleged that it has uncovered the attempt by the Osun State governor, Mr. Rauf Aregbesola to hide under the strike embarked upon by the Judiciary Staff Union of Nigeria , JUSUN , to truncate the adoption of written address by Osun state governorship election petition tribunal slated for tomorrow.

THE PDP presidential rally that took place in Imo State at the weekend was predictably a huge success. The massive turnout of Imo sons and daughters, aged and young and the genuine solidarity they expressed to President Goodluck Jonathan and his campaign team underscore this and set the stage for what to expect from the state in the February 14 presidential elections.

LOCAL government election is to hold this year in Ondo State, six years after this administration assumes office.

ABUJA—MINISTER of the Federal Capital Territory Administration, FCTA, Senator Bala Mohammed, disclosed yesterday that he had impounded 2,900 commercial motorcycles, popularly known as Okada, in the last 10 months in Abuja.

PORT HARCOURT—ALL Progressive Congress, APC, in Rivers State has condemned alleged indiscriminate arrest of its members by Police in the state.

AFTER the 2012 elections in the United States of America, our politicians bickered over the conduct of American politicians. They accused each other of not following the American tradition of accepting defeat and congratulating the winner.

CHIEF Chris Uba’s roles in the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, his romance with Independent National electoral Commission, INEC and the judiciary to achieve his political objectives is a matter of concern to all.