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.

“ BLT then sold AC to the people, and if you study the pattern of voting, as shown at the election tribunal judgments, you will see that the votes that gave AC victory were from Edo South. That was a result of BLT campaign and its mobilization of people to register during the registration exercise.

“So, to that extent, BLT did not fail on its objective, even though the

The eyewitness, who pleaded anonymity, said the children left the landlady’s apartment unnoticed by anyone, adding that the children fell into the unused open septic tank that was directly in front of the landlady’s apartment.

By Olasunkanmi Akoni After a temporary lull amounting to a cessation of hostilities in military parlance, the Lagos State Government last weekend resumed its offensive against shanties in the state when its bulldozers roared once again leaving in their wake several illegal structures that were reduced to rubbles. This fresh demolition exercise which was as […]

By Edmond Enaibe WITH the Monday July 13, 2009 release of MEND leader Henry Okah, the amnesty jet can be said to be in full flight. Just hours before the declaration of amnesty for all militants by President Umaru Yar’Adua, the Ijaw Elders and Leaders Forum made a one page advertisement on page 49 of […]

Spokesman of the task force, Colonel Rabe Abubakar told Vanguard that the claim by MEND that the task force had dispatched seven gun boats with heavily armed troops to a militant camp around the boarders of Delta and Ondo states was not true.

Coordinator of the Joint Media Campaign Centre of the task force, Colonel Rabe Abubakar confirmed to Vanguard in an interview yesterday, that the operation has been called off as a result of the proclamation of amnesty for militants by the Federal Government

Auditors have thrown their weight behind the Centra Bank of Nigeria (CBN)’s new policy guidelines for a uniform accounting year_end for banks, saying it will curb doctored reports and interbank lending in the financial sector. They said “Uniform Year End for banks is good.