Nigeria will lose $3 billion a year due to changes in tax terms proposed in an oil reform bill before the National Assembly, the government’s oil transparency agency said, yesterday.

The Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Mrs. Farida Waziri has stated that those who are wishing the Presidency to sack her from her duty post are wasting their time as she would only quit when her time is up

Implementation of the performance contract initiative has been identified as critical to Nigeria’s attainment of the Vision 20:20:20 and the United Nations Millenium Development Goals.

Former chairman of Isoko South Local Government Area, Delta State, Chief Iduh Amadhe, yesterday, blamed the in-fighting between board members of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, on its Managing Director, Mr Chibuzor Ugwoha.

OVER 300 illegal structures and shops were, yesterday, demolished in Ughelli, headquarters of Ughelli North Local Government Area of the state by the Delta State Special Taskforce on Flood Control and Removal of Illegal Structures.

Governor Ibikunle Amosun of Ogun State has called on religious leaders in the country to pray for the sustained peace and unity in Nigeria and Ogun State in particular.

ONE thing that really gets to people about the Boko Haram sect is the violence associated with its clamour for change, the way it understands change. Were it just a sect that defended its religious fervour peacefully, the opposition to its existence would have been mollified.

After seeing his team score an amazing 13 goals in four matches at the FIFA U-20 World Cup, Flying Eagles Coach, John Obuh was left shell-shocked to see Nigeria exit the competition at the quarterfinal stage.

A group of Bini indigenes known as Oshiomhole/Odubu second term, a reality said there is no vacancy for the positions of the Governor/Deputy Governor in Edo State come 2012 election.

Alhaji Lateef Sofolahan, a former aide of the late Alhaja Kudirat Abiola, who was alleged to be an informant to the late General Sani Abacha’s government, will mount the witness box today to give evidence on what he knows about the murder of Kudirat on June 4, 1996

THE hope of the Peoples Democratic Party in Oyo State to get the election of Governor Abiola Ajimobi annulled dimmed yesterday as the state Election Petition Tribunal refused its plea to invite officials of the United States of America to testify whether Ajimobi is a US citizen or not.

The alarm bell that prompted the Senate to set up an Ad Hoc Committee to carry out an inquest on the privatisation activities of the Bureau of Public Enterprise, BPE from 1999 to date was first rang by Vice President Namadi Sambo.

GOVERNOR Peter Obi, yesterday, commended workers in the state for calling off their industrial action, pledging not to renege on his promise to implement the new minimum wage.

PLANS have reached advanced stage for the take-off of Imo State College of Advanced Technological Studies in Owerri.

In a telephone chat, Special Assistant (Print) to Governor Rochas Okorocha, Mr. Ebere Uzoukwa, said the governor will flag-off construction work on the project today.

THE Gbaramatu Youths Development Council of Delta State, yesterday, condemned the protest by some persons against the nomination of Mr Kingsley Otuaro as Commissioner in the Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission, DESOPADEC.