“I know the enormous challenges you are facing in the Niger Delta and for you to do your work, you need peace”, the police boss said. Mr. Hassan commended the NDDC for being alive to its responsibilities, promising that the police was willing at all times to guarantee the commission sustainable peace in the day-to-day running of its activities.

He, however, said the Ijaw ethnic nationality would resist further attempt to massacre its people and subsequently drench the legitimacy of the genuine struggle of emancipation by the people.

*It’s untrue, says PDP By Henry Umoru ABUJA—THE ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) was yesterday accused by the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) of being the brain behind the non disclosure of the names of sponsors of militants in the Niger Delta.

By Henry Umoru ABUJA—THE National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party(PDP), Prince Vincent Ogbulafor has summoned the Ministers of Agriculture and Water Resources, Dr. Sayyadi Abba Ruma and that of  Power, Dr. Rilwan Olanrewaju Babalola to appear before the party’s National Working Committee (NWC) today.

GENEVA—OVER 100 million girls are engaged in child-labour worldwide and the number could increase with the social impact of the global financial crisis affecting the girl-child in many countries, the ILO warned at its on-going 98th International Conference in Geneva yesterday.

“In fact, people should believe in dialogue because violence is destructive and we want to ensure we have positive development”, he governor said.

They should teach their children their native language, cook their native food and reduce over exposure to foreign cultures”, She advised.

Delta state government had on March 20, this year, during the heat of the crisis rocking the board, announced the suspension of the board members and a panel of inquiry set up.

The Vice Chancellor, who spoke in an address read on his behalf by the institution’s Acting Vice Chancellor, Professor L. B Kolawole at the 13th RUN Family Forum said that through the “actions of the students involved in the case, damage was done to the reputation of the university and appropriate disciplinary action has taken against the students concerned.”

Minister of Education, Dr. Sam Egwu, has commended Governor Godswill Akpabio of Akwa Ibom State for his implementation of the agreed enhanced teacher’s package in the state.

By Bose Adebayo IF  their resigned expression is anything to go by, words alone cannot describe their ordeal these past two days. Indeed most of them were shocked speechless by this unexpected travail.

Also included in the approved funding for the executive is the evacuation of refuse from the state capital, the building of the state park, the sand filling of Niger Delta University (NDU), the proper funding of the three football clubs in the state, Bayelsa United, Ocean Boys and Bayelsa Queens and the clearing of all drains in the state capital, Yenagoa

The Fitch report shows that no agency-rated bank is expected to breach its minimum regulatory capital requirements, based on the agency’s calculations in a capital-sensitivity test for Fitch-rated banks and assuming a 50 per cent provision for estimated exposures. Given the present operating environment, Fitch expects that Nigerian banks will need to manage their costs and overhead structures more closely going forward.

“We want to stress that no NUT official or school has a right to deny school children access to their classrooms for learning, and government will not sit back and allow its programmes for the education sector to suffer unjustly,” the statement added.

By  Chidi Nkwopara OWERRI—Imo State Command of the State Security Service (SSS) has arrested three persons, who claim to be students of Imo State University (IMSU), Owerri, while they were negotiating for money to assassinate a lady.