Pensioners in Imo State, yesterday, protested the continued refusal by Governor Rochas Okorocha to pay them their pensions which ranged between 22 and 77 months in arrears.

Kebbi Government has awarded N935 million contract for erosion control and road rehabilitation in Bunza and Danko/Wasagu Local Government areas of the state.

The Muslim Media Practitioners of Nigeria (MMPN) has counseled members of the Muslim Students Society of Nigeria, MSSN who are aspiring to become journalists to be fully ready for the challenges ahead especially in the reportage of Islam.

THE Defence Headquartres said, yesterday, that security agencies in the country were conducting over 16 operations nationwide to stem kidnapping, insurgency, oil theft among others.

OPPOSITION to perceived moves to nominate former deputy governorship candidate of the All Progressive Congress, APC, in the 2015 governorship election in Kogi State, Mr. Abiodun Faleke as a minister is brewing another round of crisis in the state chapter of the APC.

Wife of Edo State Governor, Mrs Betsy Obaseki, has called on wealthy and privileged Nigerians to show love and help the less privileged in the society, even as she hosted about 1,000 Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs, at the International Christian Centre, a camp in Uhogua in the outskirts of Benin, to an end of year feast.

Medical doctors under the auspices of National Association of Resident Doctors, NARD, yesterday condemned what they described as anti-labour measures being meted on doctors in Federal Government-owned health institutions across the country.

The number of internet users in Nigeria’s telecommunications networks have further reduced to 92,446,687 in November, the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, has said.

GOVERNOR Willie Obiano of Anambra State has upgraded the state College of Agriculture, Mgbakwu in Awka North Local Government Area, to Polytechnic.

Political leaders in the country have been urged to fulfil their promises and better the lots of Nigerians, rather than exploiting them through religious, ethnic and other primordial sentiments for selfish interests.

The Federal Government has said that it will accept Naira from airlines which owe it in Dollar transactions, adding that the decision to accept Naira instead of Dollars was taken last week by the government.

The Jigawa State and local governments’ contributory pension scheme has declared that it has saved about N17.6 billion since the establishment of the board in 2001.

Dr. Cairo Ojougboh is the Deputy National Chairman of the Senator Modu Sheriff-led faction of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. Until the crisis that enveloped the party, he was the National Vice-Chairman, South-South of the party and before then, a member of the House of Representatives. Dr. Ojougboh, a one time close confidant of Chief Tony Anenih, in this interview with newsmen in Lagos, gives his perspectives on the crisis in the party and how it can be resolved.

Another sector the summit will cover in detail is Halal Tourism and how the region’s struggling tourism sector can get a slice of Halal tourism, one of the fastest growing areas of global tourism estimated at $219 billion

THE immediate past governor of Abia State and Senator representing Abia Central Senatorial district, Chief Theodore Orji has urged his Ibeku kinsmen to sustain their support for Governor Okezie Ikpeazu in spite of the legal tussles he is going through.