NIGERIA Labour Congress, NLC, has announced that Labour and its civil society allies under the aegis of Labour and Civil Society Coalition, LASCO, would today, in the ancient city of Kano, Kano State, resume the national protest rallies against government planned full deregulation of the downstream sector of the petroleum sector, privatisation of public refineries among others, suspended about a month ago.

SHELL has said its Nigerian joint venture had extended forces majeure on Bonny Light and Forcados crude to include oil exports for June.

The strategic relationship between Nigeria and China will be further strengthened as Mr. Jiang Jianqing, Chairman of Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) Limited, visits the country.

By Wole Mosadomi MINNA —  THE Niger    State Police Command has declared the new Speaker of the State House of Assembly, Sheidu Ndako Idris, wanted.

There had always been fear that the Presidential Task Force set up by President Umaru Yar’Adua to ensure Nigeria’s qualification for the 2010 World Cup would clash with Nigeria Football Federation, the authority that runs football in the country.