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AN artisan, Okwudili Nwodo, is in police net in Enugu for repainting stolen vehicles. It was learnt that Nwodo worked with a car-snatching syndicate, which usually supplied him with stolen cars to repaint. The vehicles were subsequently sold to unsuspecting members of the public. Sent from my BlackBerry wireless device from MTN

The President, Nigeria Labour Congress, Mr. Ayuba Wabba, and his team met for about 40 minutes behind closed-doors on Thursday evening, with the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, to discuss the nationwide strike over the hike in fuel price. Wabba told journalists after the parley that the strike would continue until the Federal Government resumed talks with the NLC, under his leadership, on the crisis. The NLC team, however, told the Senate leadership that the workers were ready to go back to thenegotiation table with the. Federal Government over the fuel matter any time invitation to that effect was extended to them. He debunked reports that labour leaders walked out on the negotiation team of the Federal Government on Tuesday night before the strike commenced on Wednesday. Wabba said, "We are trying to engage government in negotiations essentially about the trade issue, about the electricity tariff but importantly about the increase in the pump price of PMS from N87 to N145 and w...

An EgyptAir flight, MS804, with 66 passengers on board went missing in the early hours of Thursday over the Mediterranean en route from Paris to Cairo, Egypt. The Egyptian Civil Aviation Minister, Sherif Fathi, said the crash was likely caused by a terror attack rather than a technical error, USA Today reports. The flight was said to have made two sharp turns before it suddenly lost altitude and vanished from radar. Greek authorities had found floating materials, including life vests, likely to be the wreckage from the plane, adding that the debris was found near the Greek island of Karpathos. French President, François Hollande, confirmed the disappearance of the airliner but said it was too early to determine the cause of the crash. Egyptian and Greek authorities said the plane likely went down near the Greek island of Crete. Greek TV reported two floating orange objects that could be airplane debris were spotted in the ocean 50 miles south-east of the a...

Workers in most states of the federation on Wednesday shunned a directive of a faction of the Nigeria Labour Congress to embark on an indefinite strike due to the increase in the pump price of petrol from N86.50 to N145 by the Federal Government. Despite this, however, labour and civil society organisations held rallies in most states to press home their demand that the Federal Government should reverse the price hike. Sent from my BlackBerry wireless device from MTN

An EgyptAir plane headed to Cairo from Paris with 69 people on board disappeared from radar at dawn Thursday, the airline said. Flight MS804 operating an Airbus A320 took off from Charles de Gaulle airport at 11:09 p.m. with 59 passengers and 10 crew members, the carrier said in a statement. The aircraft lost communications with radar around 2:45 a.m. Cairo time, it said in a separate statement. All communication has been lost with the missing plane and search and rescue operations are underway, a spokeswoman said. Sent from my BlackBerry wireless device from MTN

Public and private sector workers in five states of the North West on Wednesday defied the nationwide strike action ordered by the Ayuba Waba faction of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) over fuel price increase. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that federal and state workers in Katsina, Kano, Kaduna, Sokoto, and Kebbi have reported to their duty posts in defiance of the order. Reports from the five states indicated that socio-economic activities were also going on, with schools, banks, markets, hospitals and other businesses fully opened. Sent from my BlackBerry wireless device from MTN

Activists have reported finding one of the missing Chibok girls. She is the first since they were abducted by Boko Haram militants two years ago. The more than 200 girls we The more than 200 girls were taken from their secondary school in north-east Nigeria by Boko Haram terrorists on April 14, 2014. Activists said the recovered hostage is Amina Ali. She was found by a vigilante group on Tuesday in the Sambisa Forest, close to the border with Cameroon, the activists said. Details later… Sent from my BlackBerry wireless device from MTN