THE people of oil-rich Osifo community in Sagbama Local Government Area of Bayelsa State, have said that unless oil major, Agip Oil Company, signs an independent Memorandum of Understanding, MoU, with them, they would resort to both legal and violent actions to disrupt their operations.

NIGERIAN workers of Julius Berger Nigeria Plc, Ekpan, near Warri, Delta State, have protested alleged persecution and prejudice against them by a German official of the company, who directed that low-grade black workers should not have a canteen on the company’s premises.

Operators and other stakeholders in the Nigerian capital market have joined in eulogising the immediate past Group Managing Director of Guaranty Trust Bank (GTbank), Mr. Tayo Aderinokun who passed on recently, saying his death will not negatively affect the performance of the bank.

FURIOUS youths from Oleh in Isoko South Local Government Area of Delta State, chased away officials of the Shell Petroleum Development Company, SPDC, from the Oleh/Olomoro flow station following their anger with the company for the sale of Oil Mining Lease, 30 on their land without their consent.

A group under the aegis of Yoruba Transformational Council, YTC, has said that due uneven distribution of political offices and perceived marginalization of the South West zone, President Goodluck Jonathan should appoint the next Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice from the zone.

Six months to the commencement of the cash withdrawal/deposit limit imposed by the CBN, some banks have commenced selective implementation of the policy barring cash transactions by some organisations.

The Bureau of Public Procurement, BPP, has saved the Federal Government N216,690,945,419.56 in the implementation of 2010 budget, following review of project proposals submitted by Ministries, Departments and Agencies, MDAs.

SMARTING from the bombing of Police Headquarters in Abuja, Thursday, the police authorities, yesterday, arrested 58 sect members including some Somalis when its crack investigating team stormed Maiduguri, the Boko Haram headquarters.

There was bloodbath, yesterday, on Ikorodu Expressway, Lagos, following a clash between factions of street urchins otherwise known as area boys, leading to the death of an unspecified number of persons.

THE immediate past deputy governor of Plateau State, Mrs. Pauline Tallen, weekend, scoffed at Governor Jonah Jang’s call on her to apologise to him.