Conferring the Chieftai-ncy title on the 30 deserving indigenes of the Kingdom, the monarch charged traditional chieftaincy title holders across the country to live above board and be good ambassadors of their respective kingdoms.

Rising from its Annual General Meeting (AGM) at Agbor, Delta State, the Association, in a communiqué jointly signed by its Chairman, Dr. Akpufuoma Pemu and Secretary Dr. H.C. Okwuokenye, said, “the oil and gas bill that is causing disaffection in the nation right now should be critically looked at by the National Assembly and take cogni-zance of the people of the Niger Delta who bear the lingering harmful conseque-nces of oil exploration activities.”

Never in his wildest imagination did Sunday Fesonu bargained for the event that erupted two weeks ago, as he set out from his Ipokia residence in Ogun state, for the petrol station he worked as a fuel attendant.

After the fourth excretion and there was no drug in their faeces, the self acclaimed systems engineer went mad with NDLEA officials, saying that he was wrongly detained. However, the shocker came moments afterwards when Uche started excreting wraps of the substance at the fifth trial, which was the second day in detention.

Speaking during the official signing of the agreement, Kanu, Coordinator of the KHF, said the partnership arrangement had been in incubating for over year but got a break through in May 2009 in England when both parties finally agreed to collaborate in a partnership arrangement where 50 heart patients from the stable of the KHF will receive free open heart surgery every year in the Salam Center for Cardiac Surgery, at the Blue Nile area of Khartoum, Sudan.

Telling the story of Sheriff, she said: “One of the children who was reunited with his family – Sherif, left home in 2004 in search of his mother who he thought his father was keeping away from him. His quest took him from his home in Badagry where the father is a tailor to Seme, Oshodi, Obalende, Ojuelegba and finally to Kuramo Beach where he was discovered by the Haven”.

If they are truly neglected, will there be anything like oil facilities there? Instead of them to take advantage of these facilities to better their lives they are busy blowing up everything. To prove that they don’t even know what they are doing they even came to Lagos to blow up the Atlas Cove.

Minister of Works, Dr. Mohammed Hassan Lawal on visit to the road was trapped for about two hours in the traffic jam that is a permanent feature between Cele and Coker Bus Stops. By the time he arrived in Mile Two, his officials advised him not to proceed further as it was impossible to reach Apapa.

The state government had since appealed against the judgement. Mr Smith Adeleye, a principal Assistant registrar who spoke with journalists on behalf of the aggrieved staff displaying placards noted that they were embarrassed by her action, saying “ it is an embarrassment not only to the judiciary in the state but to the country at large.

The questions that keep coming to me are: First, why are there no training schools for trailer drivers in Nigeria, and if there are none, can’t NARTO put one together? Second, why would an entrepreneur entrust the control and operation of a truck valued over N15.0 million into the hands of a driver who can neither read nor write, does not understand the road signs, who drinks and smokes all sorts? Such trucks are accidents waiting to happen.