NATIONAL Union of Textile, Garment and Tailoring Workers of Nigeria, NUTGTWN, yesterday in Kaduna, commended the National Assembly for directing Nigeria Electricity Regulatory Commission.

ABUJA — The outgoing Executive Secretary of the Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency, PPPRA, Mr. Farouk Ahmed, yesterday, stated that the Federal Government was considering a review of the pricing template for Premium Motor Spirit, PMS, and might effect a further reduction in the price of the commodity from April 2016.

ABUJA—A man in his late 50s, yesterday, slumped and died at the House of Representatives wing of the National Assembly.

ABUJA — As part of preparations towards conducting an accurate and reliable population census early next year, the Federal Government, yesterday, deployed 1,214 persons to conduct the Enumeration Area Demarcation, EAD, across 29 states of the federation.

AFRICA was virtually absent in the League of Nations which was founded on January 10, 1920 following the First World War.

lagos—The President’s wife, Aisha Muhammadu Buhari, yesterday in Lagos, said importation of goods into the country had seriously undermined the nation’s growth and development, noting that it was time Nigeria started looking inward for its economy growth.

Is it a script gone awry? The emergence of Senator Ali Modu Sheriff, SAS, as the national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, was envisaged by associates of former President Goodluck Jonathan and his allies among PDP governors to be the energiser to force the party back to reckoning.

ABEOKUTA—The Yoruba Unity Forum has raised an alarm over the dwindling economic situation in the country, warning that millions of jobs might be lost this year if the free – fall of the Naira and the attendant rising inflation in the country are not checked urgently.

Ekiti State Chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has described the meeting in Abuja, by some leaders of the All Progressive Congress, APC, leaders in the State as a further confirmation that those leading the party in Ekiti State are Diaspora politicians, who have lost touch with the people.

The embattled National Publicity Secretary of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Chief Olisa Metuh, yesterday, begged the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja to quash the seven-count criminal charge the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, preferred against him.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, in a counter-affidavit to the N2.5 billion suit by Chief Rickey Tarfa (SAN), before a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, challenging his arrest and detention, told the court that Tarfa allegedly bribed Justice Mohammed Yunusa of the same court with N225,000.

Lagos—Governor Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos State yesterday, restated his administration’s commitment to ensure that the Blue Line of the Light Rail Project is up and running by December 2016.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, yesterday, brought an ex-parte application before a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos seeking for an order to seize all property belonging to former Niger Delta militant leader, Government Ekpemupolo (alias Tompolo), pending his arrest and arraignment before the court.

PROTESTS over the disappearance of Ofe Nene Pender, a youth leader in Ugborodo, Warri South-West Local Government Area, Delta State, yesterday, shifted to the Aghofen Palace of the Olu of Warri, HRM Ogiame Ikenwoli, where the angry youths drew the attention of the Itsekiri monarch to the development.

After thrilling the ladies with his unique style of music in low key for over five years, Owen Bright Okooboh, A.K.A Mr Arena, from Edo State, Benin City, has released a smashing hit single, ‘My Place.’