By Chidi Nkwopara OWERRI—The Speaker, Imo State House of Assembly, Chief Goodluck Opiah, has described the establishment of the Bureau for Niger Delta by Governor Ikedi Ohakim administration as a “landmark achievement in the history of oil producing communities in the state.” Speaking to Vanguard after the Special Adviser to the Governor on Niger Delta […]

Nigerians have been advised to ignore the bomb scare near the premises of Edo State House of Assembly as a hoax by the Action Congress-led government in the state. This was contained in a statement by Edo State Elders Consultative Forum. The body referred to the bomb scare as another “wolf cry” by Governor Adams Oshiomhole where there is no wolf.

UMBRELLA body for senior staff in the nation’s oil industry, the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN), is becoming uncomfortable with the issues being thrown up by the ongoing reforms in the sector and it is not pretending about.

In a union/management meeting we held with SHELL management in Port Harcourt on November 12, 2008, the head of employees’ relations made us to understand that they operate across 11 states that make up the oil producing states, in 4002 communities and with contracts that are more than 22,000 with both labour and service contractors.

Kidnapping in Imo State took a dangerous dimension Monday with the reported abduction of the President, Customary Court of Appeal, Hon. Justice Ambrose B.C. Egu, by a gang said to be wearing army uniforms.