The senator disclosed this while laying the foundation stone for the building of a library and computer centre estimated at about N35 million in Calabar, Cross River State .

Acting Managing Director of the Commission, Mr. Power Aginighan, who made the appeal yesterday in Port Harcourt during the commissioning of a health centre built and furnished by the Commission for Tereama community, Port Harcourt, said militants should see the amnesty offer as an opportunity to be properly reintegrated into society, so they could also be active players in the drive to develop the region.

It read: “That the relocation of the Petroleum University from Delta to Kaduna State is unacceptable by Niger-Delta students, as it is against the 7-point agenda and no excuse is genuine enough for the relocation, therefore, it should be returned without any further delay.

By Emma Arubi WARRI—THE Nigeri an Bar Association (NBA) has threatened to drag the Federal Government to court if it failed to withdraw the Petroleum Industry Bill and reverse its decision to downgrade the Petroleum Training Institute (PTI) in favour of the Kaduna Petroleum College.

It has been good so far. We make sure that all our electioneering promises are fulfilled. We thank God that he has been on our side. We have enjoyed relative peace. What we are doing is to let the people of Oyo State know that they have a government which is different from what they used to have in the past. If I cannot make a difference, I should not be on this seat because I know what used to happen in the past. I don’t want to do it the same way they were done.

It is axiomatic that where the bulk of government revenue is derived from export proceeds, only mismanagement of the export earnings will inhibit economic advancement. The mismanagement of the public sector export proceeds, which has left a legacy of economic failure over the past three decades, must stop now

Meanwhile, demand for foreign exchange in the official market has risen more than threefold since the introduction of WDAS on July 13. Analysis of the foreign exchange demand and sales in the six auctions conducted by the CBN before and after the introduction of WDAS shows demand for foreign exchange shot up by 351 per cent to $3.16 billion from $861.8 million.

By Emma Nnadozie LAGOS – The expatriate Managing Director of Coastal Inland Maritime Services Ltd., Mr. Nicholas Anderson, last Friday committed suicide by hanging in his residential apartment in Ozumba Mbadiwe Street, Victoria Island, Lagos. Though no suicide note was reportedly left by the Briton, police sources said the Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Mr. […]

THE Delta State Government is to build new settlements for the Ijaw and Itsekiri communities in Warri South-West Local Government Area of the state devastated by men of the Joint Task Force (JTF) on the Niger Delta during its aborted Cordon and Search operation in the area.

By Tony Edike ENUGU – A quick response by fire service personnel at the Akanu Ibiam Airport, Enugu, yesterday averted what could have resulted to a major air disaster in Enugu, as an Embraer 120 aircraft with 20 passengers on board caught fire shortly before take-off. The turbo-prop aircraft, marked 5N-BLN and operated by Capital […]