The 18-man joint committee comprising the state and labour, set up in Imo State, has unanimously agreed to pay only 70 per cent of workers salary across board, while making reservations for pension.

Zamfara State government has sought the support of the Nigerian Army to tackle the security challenges facing the state.

FINALLY, former Interior Minister, Abba Moro, is answering to charges of abuse of procurement process and diversion of public funds preferred against him and four others by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).

The Court of Appeal sitting in Benin, Edo State, has ordered the Speaker of Edo State House of Assembly, Mr. Victor Edobor, to immediately swear in Mr. Sylvanus Eruaga, of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, as a member representing Etsako West 11 constituency in the state legislature or be guilty of contempt of the court and liable to be committed to prison.

A twenty-eight years old suspect, Babatunde Ibrahim, who was arrested by operatives of Rapid Response Squad, RRS, in Lagos, has confessed that he had stolen over hundred mobile phones, adding that he derives pleasure from the act.

LAGOS—Thirty-three persons were, yesterday, arraigned before a Chief Magistrate’s Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos, over the recent Mile 12 riots.

Legal luminaries have said that the resolutions passed by the Senate last week, reducing the cost of UTME form from N5,650 to N2,500 and the extension of results validity to three years are not binding on the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB.

SENATOR Mao Ohuabunwa who won last Saturday’s Abia North Senatorial election re-run has called on the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to stop using university teachers as adhoc collation and returning officers during elections, saying they have corrupted the system.

THE Nigeria Association of Zoological Gardens, NAZG, has called on the Federal government to consider eco-tourism in its bid at diversifying Nigeria’s economy.

The legislative arm of Bomadi Local Government Area, Delta State, has served an impeachment notice on the council Chairman, Chief Oluwale Karetimi, over alleged financial impropriety and breach of provisions of the local government law.

The leadership of veteran soldiers of the 1967-1970 Nigerian Civil War, under the aegis of Care First for the Aged Welfare Development Association, CFAWDA, has drawn the attention of the Senate president, Senator Olusola Saraki and members of the National Assembly to their plight.

Manufacturers in the real sector of the economy have requested the federal government to grant them 18 months access to foreign exchange to enable them backwardly integrate.

Okon Abang of the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, on Wednesday, held that the embattled National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Chief Olisa Metuh, has a case to answer over the alleged role he played in the illegal diversion of funds meant for the procurement of arms.

Thirty two persons were yesterday arraigned before a Chief Magistrate Court siting in Ikeja for allegedly causing riot at Mile 12, Lagos.

IT was a star-studded list of Nigerians that braved the early-morning downpour on Saturday March 5, 2016, to participate in the annual Endo Walk, aimed at breaking the silence around Endometrioisis – a silent but growing health condition that predisposes women of reproductive age to ill health, infertility and severe periodic pains.