“I plead with you to tell the NBC to implement the Supreme Court judgment. The judgment is clear, if you doubt it pick the Justice Oguntade’s Judgment and read it, it is stated in that judgment that the boundaries between territorial states would be determined by uncloss.

By  Chidi Nkwopara OWERRI—Imo State government has directed the embattled Vice Chancellor of Imo State University (IMSU), Owerri, Prof Innocent Okonkwo, to “refund the sum of N55 million, which he falsely claimed he  paid to Education Tax Fund (ETF) as penalty”. Similarly, government directed the institution’s Governing Council to retire Prof Okonkwo from the services […]

Despite the activities of militants on oil installations across the country, Lagos State Government has offered partnership as well as incentives to private investors willing and ready to establish mini (modular) oil refinery in the state.

By Chidi Nkwopara OWERRI—Leaders of ethnic communities resident in Kano state have cried out over what they termed “high handedness and attack”by  Hisbah operatives in the ancient city of Kano”. Speaking to Vanguard in Owerri, Imo state after delivering a four-page letter of complaint, dated July 7, 2009, to Governor Ikedi Ohakim, the President General […]

According to him, “such an act of unpatriotism is coming at a time when the federal government is taking tremendous and far-reaching steps to restore peace to the Niger Delta so as to fast-track the development of the area.”

Speaking to the aggrieved squatters, Secretary to the State Government, Magnus Ngei Abe, told the people that the continued existence of the contentious waterfront was creating security problems for the government, adding that there was need to build a healthy place for them.

By  Enyim Enyim ONITSHA—Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT ) in Anambra state has threatened to go on strike, should the state government fail to pay them the 27.5% teachers salary scale by the end of August. Chairman of the union, Chief Anthony Ugozor told Vanguard that government had agreed to pay the money in full […]

The new line at Mfamosing currently operates at a much lower operating cost and has excess grinding capacity in addition to producing cement from materials mined at site.”

According to him, the only solution to the Niger Delta problem is for the Federal Government to directly contact the true key traditional rulers, youths leaders and community leaders of the aggrieved oil communities in the creeks and kingdoms to chat a way forward with them in providing a lasting solution to the problem which originated as a result of deprivation and marginalization of the oil communities.

The statement read in part: “The attention of the Leadership of the Delta State House of Assembly has been drawn to newspaper publication of July 15, 2009 insinuating impeachment scare in the state Assembly over an alleged DESOPADEC largesse.