No fewer than 10 persons sustained injury last night in Gwarmai Village, Bebeji Local Government Area of Kano State, following an inferno from vandalised Pipelines Products Marketing Company, PPMC, pipelines

The Federal Executive Council, FEC, yesterday, approved to enact a law that will compel the three tiers of government to roll out long term development plans to enable Nigeria achieve its Vision 2020 targets, expected to cost N32 trillion.

ROYAL Dutch Shell said, yesterday, that it had been forced to shut down an oil flow station in the Niger Delta due to a protest by a group of local women over a lack of development in their community.

FACTIONAL former militant group from Sokebolou Yokiri in Burutu Local Government Area of Delta State, yesterday denied media reports by Believe Anumu and Adowei Binebi in the Vanguard Newspapers, that their differences had been resolved, stressing that only an unreserved apology to the community leadership was the answer to resolving the dispute.

FORMER governorship aspirant in Delta State on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Goodnews Agbi, said yesterday that only Ovie Omo-Agege and Minister of Niger Delta, Elder Godsday Orubebe can unseat the state Governor, Emmanuel Uduaghan, in the 2011 governorship election.

A Peo-ples Democratic Party, PDP, aspirant for weekend bye-election into the vacant position of the Yenagoa constituency II in the Bayelsa State House of Assembly, Mr. Bubaraye Dakolo, has petitioned the national chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, over alleged imposition of Mr. Ebipadei Fekoweimo as the party flag bearer without recourse to party primaries as stipulated by law.

THE Federal Government has been called upon to create Anioma State from the present Delta State, so as to assuage the suffering of Anioma people, who have been allegedly marginalised in the scheme of things in the present Delta State.

AS members of the Edo State branch of the National Union of Electricity Employees, NUEE, joined their colleagues in a nationwide strike action to press for their demands, economic activities were paralyzed yesterday, in Benin City and other major towns in Edo State.

As the debate on the 2011 elections gathers more steam, national interest, stability and the consolidation of the democratic process should be the guiding principle for the political elite as against sectional or regional allegiance, Bayelsa State Governor, Chief Timipre Sylva, has said.