Former Head of State Yakubu Gowon has decried the increasing level of insecurity and wanton destruction of lives and property in the country describing it as a cause for concern.

Textile workers in the country have commended the Nigeria Employers Consultative Association, NECA, for distancing itself from the Federal Government’s move to withdraw fuel subsidy saying that the denial has exposed government’s “insincerity and lack of openess’’ on the issue of fuel subsidy removal as well as its divide and rule tactics against the people.

A community leader in Anambra State, Chief Anthony Oguejiofor, has urged striking doctors in the state to be sympathetic with patients who have been suffering for the past nine months since the industrial action began.

Nigeria Union of Local Government Employees, Anambra State branch, Wednesday called on the Federal Government to rescind its planned withdrawal of fuel subsidy.

Clerics have declared war on Abia State Government over its indigenisation policy, as the parish priest of St. Paul’s Catholic Church, Egbelu-Umuhu, Rev. Father Ben Ogu, has called for Governor Theodore Orji to be declared persona-non-grata in all states of the country.