South South leader, Chief Edwin Clark last week in Abuja, spoke with Vanguard on expectations of Niger-Delta citizens. We bring you excerpts of the interview.

TODAY’s gathering in Warri marks another of the many efforts to search for sustainable peace in the Niger Delta, a region that suffers from rampaging poverty ironically fuelled by the oil and gas exploration that oils the nation’s economy.

NO fewer than 813 illegal bunkerers and operators of refineries in Ogoniland have surrendered their implements to the joint committee set up by the Rivers State government to stamp out the trade.

HAVING examined some sociological issues that often spark off violence between the Hausa/Fulani and their host communities, I would like to discern the root cause of the Sunday March 9 tragedy in Dogo Na Hawa, near Jos in Plateau State.

GOVERNORS of the nine Niger Delta states and other stakeholders, including South-South elder, Edwin Clark, MOSOP leader, Barrister Ledum Mitee and others are already in the oil city of Warri, Delta State, to proffer solutions to the multifarious problems facing the Niger Delta region.

Speaker of Bayelsa State House of Assembly, Chief Werinipre Seibarugu, has called on the Implementation Committee on the just concluded biometric staff verification exercise to release salaries of local government staff affected by the exercise pending the publication of the white paper on the report by the state executive council.

Boisterous immediate past Chief Executive Officer of Nigerian Breweries Plc, Dr. Festus Odimegwu, was Sunday morning shocked beyond description, as dare devil hoodlums kidnapped his wife, Stella Chinwe Odimegwu.

THE umbrella body of Koko indigenes, Koko Progressive Union, KPU, has called for support for Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan and the Export Processing Zone, EPZ, project by all sons and daughters of the town.

Travellers on the Oporoma-Ogboinbiri waterway in Southern Ijaw local government area of Bayelsa State have described as humiliating the practice where they (boat passengers) are made to raise their hands over their head as a mark of surrender at the Joint Task Force checkpoint.

THE Zone 5 division of the Nigerian Police handling the murder case of Messrs Isaac Ukanefimoni and Ovuoke Obie has arraigned six suspects before the Magistrate Court II at Agbarho, Delta State.

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The Senate President, Senator David Mark, believes that with the hiring of Lars Lagerback to pilot the Eagles’ affairs for the 2010 World Cup finals, and the calibre of talents available that the Eagles are capable of playing in the final in South Africa.

THE people of Ekogbene community in Burutu local government area of Delta State have appealed to Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan to assist them in recovering a N9m government owned 3-bedroom bungalow built for the community but now converted to private use by the contractor.

A PROFESSOR of Industrial Relations, Dafe Otobo, weekend in Ibadan, called on the nation’s leaders to be transparent in the management of the country’s resources, stressing that the current economic situation in the country was worsened by lack of transparent management, which has continued to take its toll on employment, turnovers and profits of firms, among others.

While the IAAF world indoor championships was being concluded yesterday in Doha, Oatar, without Nigeria on the medal list, Blessing Okagbare was on the other side of the Atlantic making history.