Dr. Dejo Raimi, a retired medical practitioner, is now a full-fledged politician. He prefers the incumbent Governor Adebayo Alao Akala to continue to steer the ship, the stance that is contrary to other Ibadan indigenes.

THE Independent National Electoral Commission [INEC] has released the list of candidates for the forthcoming polls with the names of Governor Olugbenga Daniel, Speaker of the House of Representatives; Mr. Dimeji Bankole and daughter of the acclaimed winner of the June 12 1993 elections; Bashorun MKO Abiola, Mrs. Lola Abiola Edewor conspicuously missing from the Peoples Democratic Party [PDP] list.

NIGERIAN Content Development and Monitoring Board, NCDMB, and China’s major welded line pipe maker, Jiangsu Yulong Steel Pipe have agreed to implement a schedule that will lead to the setting-up of a 250, 000 tons per annum longitudinal submerged arc welded pipe mill in Nigeria by September 2012.

THE Managing Director of Nigeria LNG Limited, Mr Chima Ibeneche decried that it is mind boggling for a nation as blessed with gas like Nigeria to still be depending on other sources of fuel for domestic use.

The Nigerian Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, NEITI, has recommended a drastic restructuring of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, in order to ensure greater transparency and credibility of certain oil sector payments and receipts in the national oil and gas behemoth.

PIPELINE and Products Marketing Company, PPMC, has begun spill containment and environmental remediation measures at the Isheri area of Lagos, where a huge volume of spilled premium motor spirit (petrol) has polluted underground water.
The company, which is the marketing arm of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, said the measures were part of its ongoing detailed investigations into the petrol seepage at the Diamond Estate and its environs.

Ecobank has launched a multiple product campaign that offers its customers the opportunity to benefit from its array of unique banking products and services.

Yengoa – The Anglo-Dutch oil giant, Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) yesterday defended its operations at the multi billion naira E.A oil field saying it had not violated the Global Memorandum of Understanding (GMoU) entered into with its host communities in Bayelsa State.

A communiqué read on behalf of the other parties by Dr. Lawrence Atuanan, of the New Nigerian Peoples Party, NNPP, explained that the step was informed by Shekarau’s political maturity which the group believed was needed for the improvement of the national polity.

Maiduguri – The Police Command in Borno on Sunday set up road blocks on major roads in Maiduguri in its bid to check the increasing attacks by suspected Boko Haram militants.