SOMETIMES in July, 2016 while attempting to pay the remunerations of over 20 staff and volunteers, it was discovered that the Company’s Salary Account, the Operational Account, the Domiciliary Account and even Personal Account of the Director had all been frozen!

The Federal Ministry of Justice, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Independent Corrupt Practices Commission, ICPC, and the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, are to spend about N924 milllion to purchase new vehicles in the 2017 fiscal year.

President of the newly launched United Labour Congress of Nigeria, ULC, and General Secretary of National Union of Electricity Employees, NUEE, Mr Joe Ajaero, has said the solution to the leadership crisis in the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, was the formation of labour centre.

Borno State’s Commissioner for Local Government and Emirate Affairs, Usman Ali Zanna, yesterday, described reports about the arrest of Chairman of Mafa Local Government Area, Shettima Mafa, over alleged Boko Haram connections as ‘a very worrisome twist.’

The year 2016 would be remembered for the economic challenges that hit every sector of the economy, especially as it started from increase in petroleum products prices to shortage and naira depreciation precipitated by crude oil price crash and drop in oil production from the activities of militants in the Niger Delta.

THE Senate, yesterday, said the ongoing recession in the country will soon be overcome through a number of life-changing laws that the National Assembly will soon put in place in the ongoing year.

LEADER of the Pan-Yoruba socio-political organisation, Afenifere, Pa Reuben Fasoranti, has called on the Federal Government to condemn the killings in Southern Kaduna, faulting government’s seeming indifference on the issue.

SENATOR Gershom Bassey, who represents the Southern Senatorial district of Cross River State, weekend, said the priority of the Senate and the Presidency was how to take the country out of the current recession in the first quarter of this year.

The moribund Ajaokuta Steel Company has been allocated N6.2 billion of the N23.2 billion allocated to the Federal Ministry of Mining and Steel Development.

AS we welcome 2017 with fanfare in our groovy culture of extravagance, spending more than what we earn, many spend new year in wasteful ventures. In celebrations, we indulge in unethical conducts that sometimes lead to death. Every new year comes with its pattern of celebrations that attracts hoodlums who are lured to rape, steal and maim innocent citizens. New Year celebrations have become a season prostitutes lure men to slaughter abattoirs in quest of fleecing vanity.