Ado-Ekiti – Governor Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti State has warned contractors handling the 14 newly awarded road projects in the state against shoddy jobs and shady deals with government officials.

IJAW youths in Edo State have threatened to shut down all companies operating in their area if their kinsman was not made Edo State representative on the board of Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC.

ABEOKUTA – Governor Ibikunle Amosun of Ogun State Monday said the 10,000 Rapid Employment Generation Programme was made to empower the youths and rebuild the state.

AKURE -A former Ondo State representative on the immediate past Governing Council of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, Dr. Benson Enikunomehin, has faulted statement credited to Senate President David Mark alleging that individual members of the NDDC board were self-centred.

IN the November 15, 2011 edition of the Tuesday Platform I reviewed General Don Idada E. Ikponmwen’s proposal for the reform of Nigeria’s defence and security sector. He had argued for a coordination of the services through a new office. He argued that such a reform will improve the efficiency of the defence and security sector.

policemen who were deployed to maintain peace at the premises of Federal Psychiatric Hospital Uselu, Benin City, have been withdrawn following the peace moves initiated by the Acting Chief Medical Director, CMD, of the hospital, Dr. George Eze.

Stanbic IBTC Bank has been appointed sole financial adviser to the Lagos State government on the proposed Lekki-Epe International Airport project to be developed on a modular basis at an estimated project cost of N71.64bn ($450 million) in its first phase.

Federal Government, Monday, sent a director with the National Universities Commission, NUC, Prof. Alhassan Bichi, to take charge of academic activities of troubled Federal University of Petroleum Resources, FUPRE, Effurun, Delta State.

The Federal Government has directed that the payment of the 50 percent salary increases should be made only to members of staff who have been verified biometrically.

The Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, has said that over 5000 cases of willful act of pipeline vandalism were recorded at the end of 2010 nationwide.

The National Chairman of Oil and Gas Trainers Association of Nigeria, OGTAN, Prof. Mike Onyekonwu, has said that only the proper training of Nigerian workers will guarantee local content development in the oil and gas industry.

Eight pirates boarded an oil supply vessel contracted by Chevron Corp off the Nigerian coast and took three hostages, the U.S. oil company said on Friday.

THE Executive Director, South South, South East and Midwest, Keystone Bank Limited, Mrs. Sally Uwechue-Mbanefo has restated the bank’s commitment to the support of education of the Nigerian youths.

RESIDENTS of Aba, the commercial city of Abia State, have appealed to the state government to engage the services of reputable construction companies in the execution of road contracts earmarked for rehabilitation in the city this dry season.

IF Nigeria intends to grow indigenous capacity to drive the oil and gas, ICT and other relevant sectors, it must focus on education of its youths today and urgently consider increased budgetary allocation to education.