ORGANISED labour in the nation’s Petroleum industry, has accused the management of ConocoPhilips Nigeria Limited of deliberating breaching the Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) with the union in order to shortchang members in the company’s planned retrenchment exercise.

Chief Paul Okpor, a major palm oil plantation farmer in Delta, has called on governments at all levels to support palm oil plantation farming to stimulate agricultural production in the country. Okpor made the appeal in an interview with newsmen in Asaba.

There are indications that due process may have been jettisoned in the award of a contract worth $200 million from Shell for the subsea development of the Bonga North-West field offshore Nigeria

Dana Petroleum has signed an exclusive letter of intent (“LOI”) with the Texas-based company Hyperdynamics Corporation .

Shell’s output from Nigeria’s on-shore play has been heavily curtailed by violence, the Anglo-Dutch super-major Shell’s chief executive Peter Voser said today.

Sky Petroleum has entered into a non-binding letter of intent to invest in and acquire Suntera’s interests in two onshore oil & gas blocks in Nigeria. Suntera is expected to become a key shareholder in Sky Petroleum.

The Secretary General of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), Dr.Abdallah El_Badri has described the deregulation policy of the Federal Government as a welcome development assuring that the Organisation will support the Government for it to succeed.

FEDERAL Government’s plan for deregulation of the downstream petroleum sub-sector in Nigeria has faltered yet again with indications that payment of subsidy to petroleum import marketers may remain the order of the day for some time.

By  Chidi Nkwopara OWERRI—The Governing Council of Alvan Ikoku Federal College of Education (AIFCE), Owerri, has appealed to Imo State Government to settle outstanding entitlements of retired staff of the institution before ejecting them from their official quarters. Chairman of the Governing Council, Professor James Alachi, made the appeal when Council members and the schools […]

By Tordue Salem ABUJA—Future ministerial nominees may have to provide a security clearance certificate. A Bill to make that a reality is entitled “An Act to make provisions that will enable the National Assembly to be more effective in screening ministers of the Federal Government of the Federation Pursuant to the Provisions of Section 147 […]

By Tordue Salem ABUJA—The House of Representatives has slated for second reading a Bill seeking to establish a special Commission for Nigerians living and working abroad. The Bill is sponsored by Chairman, House Committee on Diaspora Affairs, Rep. Abike Dabiri-Erewa and 16 other members of the Committee. The Commission when established will mobilize Nigerians living […]

By Peter Duru MAKURDI — The British Broadcasting Corporation World Service Trust (BBCWST) has pledged to partner state governments and the media in Nigeria through its Enhancing Nigerians Response to HIV/AIDS (ENR) program, to fight the HIV/AIDS scourge in the country. According to the coordinator of the program, Mrs. Helen Bassey, who spoke at a […]

By Chidi Nkwopara OWERRI—The enforcement unit of the Imo State Board of Internal Revenue (BIR) has sealed-off the Owerri branch of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), over alleged non-payment of over N300 million tax, owed the state government from 2002 to 2009. Vanguard gathered that despite stiff resistance by the CBN staff,  the combined team […]

ABUJA—The Minister of  Science and Technology, Dr. Alhassan Bako Zaku has tasked the Scientific Committee to ensure that Nigeria’s hosting of 2010 Olympiad becomes a resounding success. Dr. Zaku made this statement during the inauguration of the International Junior Science Olympiad (IJSO) Scientific Committee last Thursday in Abuja. The Minister also charged the committee to […]

By Taye Obateru Jos — The Plateau State Local Government Elections Appeal Tribunal has confirmed the removal of the Chairman of Mikang Local Government Area, Mr. Innocent Tisel as the valid candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for last year’s council election. The appellate tribunal, headed by Justice Yargata Nimpar has, therefore, ordered Mr. […]