The end to the on – going indefinite strike embarked upon by the medical doctors under the Lagos State employment may not be in sight as the State Government yesterday said it cannot afford to pay the controversial Consolidated Medical Salary Structure (CONMESS) as demanded by the doctors.

The University of Lagos will hold its 2007/2008 Endowment Scholarship Awards /Partnership Forum on August 17,2010,at the Multipurpose Hall, Akoka.

Nigeria and Ghana have concluded arrangements to hold a joint meeting to discuss bilateral relations between the two countries, scheduled to hold between August 23 and 26, in Abuja .

YOUTHS from the South East geo political zone of the country, yesterday condemned the disruption of theacademic calendar in state owned universities within the zone on account of the ongoing strike by Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU.

Residents of Edepie suburb in the heart of Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital were yesterday shocked by the bizarre discovery of the lifeless remains of a day old baby boy in a dustbin.

THE Jonathan Goodluck Success Movement, JGSM, has called on Nigerians to mount pressure on President Jonathan to contest 2011 presidential elections, as the country needed somebody like him to move the country to the next level of human and infrastructural development.

As an acclaimed tourism destination in Nigeria, the Cross River State government has stated its determination to introduce new innovations into one of its tourism products, the annual Leboku new yam festival in Yakurr, which it said, shall be the fusion of the people’s culture and agriculture, with fantastic prizes lined-up for best harvesters and winners of the Leboku competitions.

ALL is now set for this year’s annual lecture organised by the Delta State House of Assembly Service Commission, in which the retired Chief Justice of the Federation, Justice Alfa Belgore, will deliver a lecture on electoral reforms, tomorrow.

The President of Youths Enhancement Organization,(YEO, Ambassador Obinna Egbuka, has appealed to the United Nations to take decisive action to end what he termed “the irresponsible trade in conventional weapons across the globe”.

The South East Zonal working committee, ZWC,of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has urged President Goodluck Jonathan to overhaul the federal ministry of works which the ruling party alleged that its workers are incompetent, out of fashion and too corrupt to effectively implement President Jonathan’s policy on roads constructions and rehabilitations

GOVERNOR Theodore Orji of Abia State, has said he did not leave his former party, Progressive Peoples Alliance, PPA,because he wanted a ticket for 2011 elections, saying that a second term ticket in PPA was never a do-or-die affair for him

Following the recent arrest of about 68 members of the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, in Emekuku, near Owerri, Imo State, a pan-Igbo group, Peace Accord, yesterday warned the Federal Government against the arrest of MASSOB members, saying it was a violation of their fundamental rights of freedom of association and movement

INEC Chairman, Attahiru Jega has assured Nigerians that the commission will ensure probity, accountability and integrity for the 2011 general elections

Former military president, General Ibrahim Babangida has enjoined all Muslims in the country to pray for the continuing existence of Nigeria as one indivisible entity, governed by God-fearing and honest leaders who will live by example within the dictates of the law.

A group of over 43.9 million unemployed Nigerians under the aegis of the National Council for the Unemployed, NCU, has tasked the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to review its engagement strategy in recruiting ad-hoc staff for the 2011 elections to include the unemployed graduates in the country.