TO be more relevant in the country, the Nigerian Legion has taken steps to reposition itself.

THE National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) is taking steps to re-brand to redeem its image in the public eyes.

THE National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) is taking steps to re-brand to redeem its image in the public eyes.

DETERMINED to address challenges facing youths in the Amuwo-Odofin Local Government Area of Lagos State, the council has concluded plans to organise a youth summit.

PRESIDENT Barak Obama of the United States of America has applauded the ongoing post-amnesty non-violence transformation training in Obubra, Cross River State.

THE difficult terrain may pose the greatest impediment to the early completion of the N14.9 billion Koko - Ogheye coastal road awarded by the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC).

IMO State governor's wife, Mrs Chioma Ohakim, has called on Nigerians to pray to avert all forms of disasters in the last four months of the year, called the ember months.

FOLLOWING the emergence of a new leadership in the Ogun State House of Assembly, the organised labour yesterday urged the Speaker, Emmanuel Soyemi Coker, to work with the executive arm of government in bringing smiles to the faces of workers.

GOVERNOR Olagunsoye Oyinlola of Osun State yesterday approved the appointment of Prince Jimoh Oyetunji Olanipekun as the new Ataoja of Osogbo.

Barely one week after the founder of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Chief Chekwas Okorie, wrote the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Attahiru Jega, telling him that he remained the national Chairman of the party going by its constitution, Okorie yesterday wrote him another letter.

•As aspirant indicts Buhari, IBB

The presidential ambition of ex-President Ibrahim Babangida in next year’s general elections has received a boost with support from the South-South Youth Assembly (SSYA).

BARELY 24 hours after leaders of the South-South geo-political zone suspended Chief Raymond Dokpesi from the South-South Peoples Assembly (SSPA) at the end of its meeting in Abuja, a militant group, the Joint Revolutionary Council (JRC), has described him as a black leg in the Niger Delta struggle.

Ebonyi State Government is to disburse N200 million as Micro Credit to over 1,489 less-privileged persons, artisans and groups in the state to reduce poverty.

•Carpets EFCC operatives

EDO State government said yesterday that it had awarded a N30 billion contract to tackle the problem of flooding and erosion threatening parts of Benin metropolis.

Chanting aluta continua, victoria acerta in Asaba, the Delta State capital, wife of the former National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Mariam Nneamaka Ali, yesterday declared interest for the Delta North Senatorial seat ahead of next year general elections.

Mixed reactions yesterday trailed the approval of N20 billion bond for Ebonyi State by the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE).

A Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chairmanship aspirant for Onitsha North Local Government in Anambra State, Harold Ekwerekwu, has assured that PDP would defeat other parties vying for the chairmanship seat, in a credible, free and fair elections.

A member of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) in Ekiti State and an apirant to the House of Representatives, Mr. Toyin Oladimeji, says the party will not wait to be rigged out in next year’s election by other parties before seeking redress, but will start defending its votes right from the polling booths.

A HOUSE of Representatives aspirant for the Ekiti Central Federal Constituency I, Gbenga Olofin, has disagreed with those clamouring for the shift of the 2011 elections.

FOR engaging in violent confrontation during this year’s Ogun traditional festival in Ondo, 14 suspected cultists have been arraigned before an Ondo Chief Magistrate Court.