South-East traders, yesterday, vowed to resist any plan by the Bureau of Public Enterprises, BPE, to hand over Aba and Ariara power distribution unit to Afrigem.

FORMER Senate Committee Chairman on Petroleum (Down Stream), Senator Magnus Ngei Abe, has called on Rivers State government, to pay the scholarship of students studying overseas and stop playing politics with their future.

Nigerian Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, NUPENG, yesterday in Warri, Delta State, issued a 7- day ultimatum to the Federal Government on the unresolved issues affecting Chevron contract workers over anti-labour practices

Dr. Sylvan Olisanye Ebigwei (MON), consultant dental surgeon, is President-Emeritus, Aka Ikenga, the Igbo socio-political organisation. In this interview, he says the Igbo’s vote for former President Goodluck Jonathan was calculated to unite the former Eastern Region. He wants MASSOB to change its name to be relevant. He also spoke on other national issues

LAGOS—The management of the University of Lagos has accused the leadership of the Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions, NASU, and the Senior Staff Association of Nigeria Universities, SSANU, of deliberate falsehood and misinformation on some issues affecting the academic community. The issues, according to a statement issued by the Registrar and Secretary […]

Yenagoa—The police in Bayelsa State on Saturday night repelled attempt by some gunmen to abduct His Royal Highness, G.G Igodo, the paramount ruler of Ogbogoro, on the outskirts of Yenagoa, the state capital.

THE Chief Judge of Anambra State, Justice Peter Umeadi, yesterday, threw his weight behind the demands of the state branch of the Judiciary Staff Union of Nigeria, JUSUN, calling on the state attorney general, the Head of Service and the state government to come to terms with the workers’ demands.

Students of Osun State government-owned tertiary institutions, yesterday for over an hour, prevented the deputy governor, Mrs. Grace Laoye-Tomori from entering the Abeere Government Secretariat while protesting the continued closure of their campuses.

Former president, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, yesterday, launched a children’s story book on peace to celebrate the the 2015 International Day of Peace,

Widows and orphans, whose husbands and parents were killed by the insurgents in the North East of Nigeria, have been urged not to lose hope in life but have faith in God and summon courage to make something useful out of their lives.