Amnesty International and the Centre for Environment, Human Rights and Development, CEHRD, have recommended that Shell must pay at least $1 billion to begin the clean-up of pollution caused by oil spills in the Niger Delta.

ABUJA -The Lagos- Ibadan expressway reconstruction project got a breath of fresh air, Thursday, with the arrival of a leading multi-national construction firm, Group Five, and other partners.

The Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE), Mr Oscar Onyema disclosed that there has not been any clear fiscal policy by the federal government to uplift the Nigerian capital market.

Despite the silence of the Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, on his eligibility for the forthcoming Bayelsa gubernatorial primaries, Gov. Timipre Sylva, was yesterday pushing ahead with preparations for the contest with the mobilisation of his supporters across the state.

UGHELLI-Commissioner representing Ughelli South/Uvwie/Udu local government areas on the board of Delta State Oil Producing Areas Develop-ment Commission, DESO-PADEC, Mr. Johnson Boro, Wednesday, said Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan was poised to make life more meaningful for people of oil-bearing communities of the state.

Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) has surpassed the N596 billion target set for it by the federal government, collection N602 billion between January and October this year.

THE Fashion and Textile Industry Stakeholders forum (FASTINS) has called for the development of the sector to boost employment opportunities and generate foreign exchange earnings through exports.

With two months to the end of the year, Nigeria Customs Service said it had generated N602 billion as at October and was set to surpass the 2011 revenue collection target set for the service by Federal Government.

Retired Justice of the Supreme Court, Justice George Oguntade, yesterday, cautioned that any country that is unable to efficiently manage its industrial dispute was bound to fail.

Chairman, Juli Pharmaceutical Plc, Prince Julius Adeluyi, has urged the Nigerian Stock Exchange NSE to give relevance to Nigerian indigenous company.

IN Nigeria, the idea of ‘divine intervention‘ is no news to many people who believe that God is a Nigerian because of His many mercies during period of crisis or troubles.

IT appears this is a season of harvest for most Nigerian entertainers. Coming on the heels of actress, Obi Edozie’s reportedly acquiring two brand new cars for herself, Port-Harcourt based singer, Duncan Mighty has also joined the league of the big boys.

Following reports of management crisis in the Federal University of Petroleum Resources, FUPRE, Ugbomro, Delta State, a Niger Delta activist, Mr. Emma Akpovoka, has said the problem confronting the institution was maladministration.

NIGERIA is a forward-looking country. It is making progress that the impatience of Nigerians and their own concentration on the present (and mostly the past) becloud. The politicians are thinking of the future and making great plans about them.

THE Administrative Panel of Inquiry set up by Delta State House of Assembly on Wednesday has called for details of contracts awarded from 2007 till date in the state, to facilitate its assignment.