AS the national strike of the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) enters its fifth week today, the Minister of State for Education, Hajiya Aishatu Dukku, said in Bauchi, weekend, that the Federal Government was negotiating with the union to resolve

Tragedy occurred in Lagos yesterday when 15 persons, including a pregnant woman and a soldier, were burnt to death as two petroleum tankers fell and exploded.

FIVE staff of CHEVRON and seven others including a top official of Rivers State government, Mr. Obisike Alfred of the Ministry of Community/Chieftaincy Affairs and Mr. Awo Osagie, head of community and rural development, Niger Delta Development Commission, (NDDC), would

PRESIDENT Umar Yar'Adua has pleaded with the elders, opinion leaders, militants and other stakeholders in the Niger-Delta to give the Federal Government peace and the region will be transformed.