THE people of Letugbene community in Ekeremo local government area of Bayelsa State have called on Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) to urgently send relief materials and pay adequate compensation to the communities affected by the dredging caused by the grounding of an SPDC Mobile Oil Flow station barge.

Take for example, the state Cultural Centre. It was built in the central part of Port Harcourt . When he demolished it I thought he was going to replace it with something more beautiful. Instead he gave the site to Silverbird Cinemas! Who goes to cinemas these days? It does not make any sense. It is not even Rivers State cinema but a private man from Bayelsa.

Prominent Nigerians last Wednesday advised President Umar YarÁdua to quit office if media reports that his doctors in Saudi Arabia have asked him to do so are true.

UMBRELLA body for senior workers in the nation’s banking sector, the Association of Senior Staff of Banks, Insurance and Financial Institutions (ASSBIFI), has petitioned President Yar’ Adua faulting alleged directives by the apex bank to the banks not only reduce staff strength by 30 per cent, but to also cut salaries of workers by the same margin.

The Director-General maintained that because of the importance of communication, the focus of the Agency was to continue to inform Nigerians on what the programmes of wealth creation and poverty eradication are all about, the benefits to their social and economic wellbeing and their expected role in the success of the programmes.

Amen Uhunmwhangho, once quoted Patrick Wilmot as painting the picture of leadership failure in Nigeria as follows. “After almost half century of independence Nigeria, the potential superpower of Africa has travelled in reverse gear. If Nigeria had been a motor vehicle it would have been scrapped.

Ifeanyi Ugwuadu Apparently, in view of the huge loss of investment from Nigerian stock market and the meltdown around the world, reinsurers have declined to renew treaties for some local underwriters. It was learnt that renewal for some companies was deferred until they can provide the reinsurers with more information on their financials. Most CEOs […]

By Michael Eboh Kajola Integrated Investment Plc has indicated its readiness to further shore up its capital base through a capital raising exercise that will be undertaken next year. This was after the successful completion of its private placement which was conducted in 2008. The company sought to raise N2.6 billion from the capital market […]

By Peter Egwuatu Shareholders and operators in the Nigerian capital market have expressed confidence that Oando Plc performance for the current financial year end 2009 will surpasses the previous year if the current rate of growth in the performance indices are maintained. Shareholders and operators in the market have also advised the company to be […]

It was an opportunity to sit down together and discuss the welfare and future of our people. It has given us hope; we were able to tell the boys that there are alternatives to politics, to violence.

By Daniel Gumm FOR its consistent application and adaptation of strategic alliance, knowledge and experience, Animal Care Services Konsult (Nig.) Ltd is set to dominate the African sub-region with its products and services. This was the verdict Wednesday by a cross section of participants at the company’s 30th anniversary seminar which held in Lagos. The […]

Today, the classes are overpopulated; yet resulting in an awakening of sort! Buddha called it enlightenment! But, how do we now get maids, cooks, drivers, gardeners and gatemen for export? Now, a majority of Akwa Ibom people are no longer docile; they no longer wallow in self pity. Self worth has returned and if that isn’t a wrong on Akpabio’s part, then my mother isn’t 16!

Former Coach of defunct ACB Football Club of Lagos, Chief Gideon Njoku has said that Argentina cannot scuttle Nigeria’s World Cup dream in South Africa.

Real Madrid striker Gonzalo Higuain has revealed that he is concerned about the strength of Argentina’s World Cup group. Diego Maradona’s team have been pitted against Nigeria, Greece and South Korea in Group B, but Higuain added that no side in the finals will be a walkover. “It’s a difficult group,” he told Real Madrid’s […]

Enyimba Football of Aba are back to the top of the Globacom Premier league table after match day nine of the 2009/2010 season. The People’s Elephant, as the Aba giants are called, crushed premier league returnees, Ranch Bees of Kaduna by an emphatic 4-0 margin at the Enyimba International Stadium, Aba, on Sunday. The victory […]