SHELL Nigeria has put on hold $40 billion worth of potential investment in deepwater oil projects in the country amid uncertainty over planned reforms in the energy sector.

INDICATIONS emerged yesterday that the fragile peace in Oyo State may be ruptured as the former governor of the state, Senator Rashidi Ladoja and three other chieftains of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, have resolved to use self-help if the incessant attacks in the state remain unchecked by the police.

THE Ogun State Government yesterday called the bluff of the State House of Assembly over the Bond issue, saying that it would not only access the bond but would also increase it from N50 billion to N100 billion

BELGIUM is by contemporary standards, a blessed country. An international capital; it is the headquarters of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO), the International Trade Unions Confederation (ITUC) and the European Union (EU). In fact, it is assuming the presidency of the EU on July 1. Historically, it was a colonial power with the Congo as its most prized possession.

A pressure group,Victory Vanguard for Yar’Adua/Jonathan’s Presidency, has called on Northern leaders to encourage President Goodluck Jonathan to contest the 2011 Presidency, “rather than planning to sabotage his efforts” by insisting on zoning the position to the North.