COMRADE Anthony Emmanuel Nted Emmanuel is the President-General of Maritime Workers of Nigeria, MWUN, and the umbrella body for workers in the Maritime industry. Comrade Nted who is also a Vice President of Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, in this interview with Financial Vanguard, spoke on the five-year old ports concession, moves to establish a parallel agency to Nigeria Maritime Administrations and Safety Agency, NIMASA, proliferation of government’s agencies at the ports among others

Representatives of Ogoni people of Rivers State in the National and state assemblies, local governments and other opinion leaders said, weekend, they were yet to take a position on the United Nations Environ-mental Programme, UNEP, report over the oil spill in Ogoniland.

Organised labour in the Maritime sector of the nation’s economy, has called on President Goodluck Jonathan, to take a drastic measure to curtail alleged unwholesome activities of oil and shipping companies in midstream operations, warning that their activities are harmful to the nation’s economy.

A declining trend was recorded in the Nigerian Stock Exchange, NSE, last week, as equities’ value, represented by the market capitalisation dipped by N16.48 billion. Specifically, the capitalisation shed 0.23 per cent to close at N7.268 trillion from N7.285 trillion at which it opened the week. Another key performance indicator, the All-share index dropped by 0.23 per cent or 621.89 basis points to close at 22,724.02 points from 22,775.55 points.

Stanbic IBTC Bank indicated its intention to compete for market share in the retail segment of the market by rolling out an aggressive branch expansion programme, which resulted to opening of 80 branches last year. In this interview, JACQUES TROOST, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, PERSONAL AND BUSINESS BANKING (PBB) for the bank explains the philosophy behind the banks entry into the retail segment

Paris Saint-Germain registered their first win of the Ligue 1 season by beating Valenciennes 2-1 on Sunday, as French record signing Javier Pastore made his long-awaited home debut.

Niger State governor, Dr Mu’azu Babangida Aliyu, weekend, congratulated President Goodluck Jonathan and Nigerians on the successful launch of Nigeria Sat2 and NigeriaSatX in orbit in Russia.

In continuation of its efforts to stamp out fake insurers in the country, six persons, including two staff of the Lagos State Internal Revenue Service, have been arrested in Lagos by the special taskforce of the National Insurance Commission, NAICOM, on wiping out of fake insurers in Nigeria.

Libyan rebels on Sunday fought their way into Tripoli, where music played in the streets as residents celebrated, but leader Moamer Kadhafi refused to surrender even as NATO said his regime is crumbling.

GOVERNOR Olusegun Mimiko of Ondo State weekend said his administration would find lasting solution to the perennial communal crises in the state.