MEMBER representing Ughelli North, Ughelli South, and Udu federal constituency in the House of Representatives, Hon. Francis Ejiroghene Waive, has called on Nigerian Petroleum Development Company, NPDC, to immediately commence remediation works over the ruptured Abura crude oil pipeline in Otu-Jeremi community, Ughelli South council area of Delta State.

Workers in the nation’s telecommunications and Communications sector including MTN Nigeria, have pleaded with Nigerians to stop reprisal attacks on MTN and other South African business interests in Nigeria following ongoing xenophobic attacks on Nigerians and their businesses in South Africa.

South Africa’s Foreign Minister acknowledged on Thursday that prejudice against people from other African countries was one of the causes behind deadly attacks on foreign-owned businesses, a day after Pretoria was forced to shut its embassy in Nigeria over threats of retaliatory violence.

Tokyo 2020 Olympic chiefs have already rolled out everything from misting stations to flowerbeds to beat the heat at next year’s games, and now they want to let it snow.

Controller General of the Nigeria Correctional Service NCS, Jafa’aru Ahmed has disclosed that Nigeria now has 2,742 inmates on death row, expressing optimism that the approving authorities are working to either approve their execution or to commute them to life sentence.