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About 52 groups, comprising religious bodies, students’ associations, youths and women associations, yesterday, threatened to merge with the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, if the Federal Government failed to release its leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, unconditionally from prison as ordered by the courts.

Abuja – Dr Vincent Akpotai, the Acting Director-General, Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE), has fixed final verification of staff and pensioners of the defunct Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) to hold between Oct.3 and Oct. 21.

The Ndokwa/Ukwuani ethnic nationality of Delta State has dragged the Federal Government and the leadership of the National Assembly to a federal high court sitting in Asaba over the none appointment of their citizens into the board of the Niger Delta Development Commission.

The Federal Government has slammed the PDP for once again asking President Muhammadu Buhari to quit, calling the former ruling party a shameless irritant which is bent on distracting the government from its rescue mission and returning the country to ”Egypt”. ”We are on a rescue mission to resuscitate Nigeria after the PDP left it in a coma, and the noise from the same PDP seems designed to sabotage the

Mr Kayode Fayemi, Minister of Mines and Steel Development, said that licences for mining of coal for power generation had not been awarded since the emergence of the current administration. Fayomi said this at a stakeholders and press meeting on pre-Sustainability in the Extractive Industries (SITEI) at the ministry on Wednesday in Abuja. The minister was representing by Mr. Egghead Odewale, Technical