Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State, yesterday, said ”70 per cent of Ndigbo do not listen to news and do not read newspapers.”

To scale up security at the nation’s aiports, President Muhammadu Buhari has approved aviation security personnel to carry arms.

WORKERS of Global West Vessels Specialists Limited have given the indigenous marine company a 14-day ultimatum to pay the 18 months salaries and allowances owed them, even as they threatened to shut all offices of Nigeria Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA, nationwide.

Emperor Stars Football Club and Young Talent Queens 99 have emerged winners in the male and female categories of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, RCCG, Lagos Province 1 2016 football tournament.

GOVERNOR Ayo Fayose of Ekiti State has petitioned the Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Justice Walter Onnoghen over alleged plot by the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, using their members of Ekiti extraction to arm-twist the judiciary into removing him from office.

Kogi State Police Command have arrested three suspects in connection with the kidnapping and killing of a lecturer of the Federal University of Agriculture, Makurdi, Mrs Christiana Agbulu, who was abducted November 26, last year.

THE three Labour Centres in the country; theNigeria Labour Congress, NLC, Trade Union Congress of Nigeria, TUC, and United Labour Congress of Nigeria, ULC, in their new year messages to workers and the general masses, were unanimous that 2016 was very difficult for workers and indeed, ordinary Nigerians. They equally agreed that there are no or little signs that 2017 will be better either.

GOVERNMENTS have become too reactionary perhaps as a result of their ignorance of the enormous power of the press.

POLITICAL leaders and stakeholders from the three Ngwa Local Government areas of Abia Central Senatorial district have expressed anger over the recent impeachment of Chief Martins Azubuike as the Speaker of the Abia State House of Assembly, warning they should not be pushed to the wall.

The Alliance of Civil Society Organisations, CSOs, in Nigeria has asked the Global Prolife Alliance, GPA, and its principal promoter, Dr Phillip Njemanze to apologise to Minister of Environment Amina Mohammed, Nigerians and the United Nations for comments on modern biotechnology in agriculture.

EBONYI State government, yesterday, said it was going to conduct local government elections across the 13 council areas of the state.

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, yesterday, named Wale Tinubu’s Oando, Toye Cole’s Sahara Energy Resources, Sayyu Dantata’s MRS Oil and 36 other companies as winners of the crude oil term contract, for the purchase and lifting of 1.306 million barrels per day of Nigeria’s crude oil for 2017/2018, effective January 1, 2017.

THE CEO of PepsiCo(NYSE: PEP),Indra Nooyi, is responsible for the growth of a $19 billion company. The products she bears some responsibility for include staples like Tropicana, Quaker Oats and Sabra Hummus.

Inter-Party Advisory Committee, IPAC, has reminded Governor Willie Obiano of Anambra state that the three month ultimatum earlier given him to conduct local government election in the 21 council areas of the state is still in force.

Super Eagles coach, Gernot Rohr has said he hasn’t shut the door on Nigerian players in the local league as he continues to scout for talents for the national team.