THE people of Letugbene community in Ekeremo local government area of Bayelsa State have called on Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) to urgently send relief materials and pay adequate compensation to the communities affected by the dredging caused by the grounding of an SPDC Mobile Oil Flow station barge.

Take for example, the state Cultural Centre. It was built in the central part of Port Harcourt . When he demolished it I thought he was going to replace it with something more beautiful. Instead he gave the site to Silverbird Cinemas! Who goes to cinemas these days? It does not make any sense. It is not even Rivers State cinema but a private man from Bayelsa.

Prominent Nigerians last Wednesday advised President Umar YarÁdua to quit office if media reports that his doctors in Saudi Arabia have asked him to do so are true.

UMBRELLA body for senior workers in the nation’s banking sector, the Association of Senior Staff of Banks, Insurance and Financial Institutions (ASSBIFI), has petitioned President Yar’ Adua faulting alleged directives by the apex bank to the banks not only reduce staff strength by 30 per cent, but to also cut salaries of workers by the same margin.

The Director-General maintained that because of the importance of communication, the focus of the Agency was to continue to inform Nigerians on what the programmes of wealth creation and poverty eradication are all about, the benefits to their social and economic wellbeing and their expected role in the success of the programmes.