EBEDEI community in Ukwuani local government Area of Delta State has called on the management of Shell Petroleum Development Company, SPDC, Department of Petroleum Resources, DPR, and Platform Petroleum Limited, PPL, to effect the change of UMUTU/Asuakpu marginal field’s name.

THE Ancient city of Benin, the Edo State Capital lightened up last weekend when Governor Adams Oshiomhole celebrated his second year in office as governor.He was sworn-in on November 12, 2008, following the Court of Appeal ruling which declared him winner of the April 14, 2007 governorship election in the state.

Twelve Postgraduate students from the University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, Ogun State have been presented with the 2010 Indomie National Post Graduate Scholarship Award by Dufil Prima Foods Plc, makers of Nigeria’s No.1 children favourite meal, Indomie instant noodles.

“Any country that wants development in its ramifications should depend basically on its sound educational development, as human capital development will lead to national development”

Having compared and contrasted the academic performances of students’ WAEC and NECO results at St. Francis Catholic Secondary School, Idimu in the past two years of partial boarding system with the other three years of non-boarding, the school Administrator, Rev Fr Emmanuel Ugwejeh has said that the academic performance of the students were excellence.

A social political pressure group, Niger Delta Revolution Force, NDRF, has lauded Chief David Dafinone, and other Niger Delta elder statesmen for their extreme passion and support for development in Niger Delta region.

Managing Director, World Bank, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, said in China yesterday that lack of transparency and secrecy in government award of oil blocks led to the frostier relationship between multinational oil companies operating in Nigeria and the host communities.

THE National Assembly is set to backtrack from the legislative proposal in the two chambers that all Senators and more than half of the members of the House of Representatives become members of the National Executive Committees of the political parties following strong objection from governors.

Ekiti State Governor, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, has vowed not to hesitate to remove any of the newly inaugurated caretaker committee who contravenes the existing laid down rules and order of the administration of councils in the state.

Manage-ment and staff of Lubcon, one of the foremost indigenous oil and gas industries in the country, has expressed great concern over the lackadaisical attitude of leaders towards solving problems in the industrial sector, saying that the surviving ones are doing so at a greater cost and sacrifices.

AHEAD of the primaries of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, for the emergence of a Presidential candidate for the 2011 election, the Mallam Adamu Ciroma’s 17-wise Committee is waiting for the selection of sub- committee to submit its harmonised report after the Sallah celebration.

A Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, presidential aspirant, Mrs Sarah Jubril, has slammed a chieftain of the party in Kwara State, Chief Olusola Saraki, for politically enslaving the people of the state, insisting that he was only using his children to swindle the political liberty of Kwarans.

Dear Bunmi, After less than five years of marriage, I’d had enough and asked for a divorce. That was two years ago. We’d sort of grown apart in spite of our son.

A FOUNDING member of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Abia State, Prince Benjamin B. Apugo, has described as strange moves by the National Assembly to include in the amended Electoral Act a provision that would make them automatic executive committee members of their various political parties.

THE unhealthy political rivalry that has engulfed Oyo State almost desecrated the Yidi Praying ground, Agodi Gate yesterday, as some rough-looking men believed to be loyalists of the Deputy-Governor of Oyo State, Taofeek Arapaja assaulted a notable Ibadan man, Mr. Lateef Oyelade