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.