WARRI- TRADITIONAL rulers and stakeholders in oil-producing commu-nities of Delta State are to meet with President Goodluck Jonathan in Abuja, tomorrow, on the problems confronting Federal University of Petroleum Resources, FUPRE, Effurun, Delta State.

UGHELLI- ACADEMIC Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, Delta State University, Abraka Chapter, Wednesday, decried the abandonment of capital projects on the three campuses of the university.

Yola-No fewer than 12 policemen including a retired Deputy Superintendent, DSP, are now being interrogated at the Adamawa State Police Command, Yola, over their alleged involvement in criminal activities, including robbery and theft of firearms.

Yenagoa- Confusion, Wednesday, enveloped Ikarama community in Okordia clan in Yenagoa Local Government Area of Bayelsa State when an oil spill, from a facility owned by Shell Petroleum Development Company, triggered an outbreak of fire in the predominantly agrarian settlement.

IT is disheartening and very frustrating when I read a piece on the above subject matter on October 28, 2011 in the Vanguard by Michael Onhiwbere.

KADUNA-Textile workers in the country have expressed alarm over the warning issued by the American government to its citizens in Nigeria to avoid luxury hotels in Abuja, pointing out that there was a sinister motive for the warning.

Asaba-Delta State House of Assembly, Wednesday, commended Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan for complying with its resolution by ordering contractors handling projects to return to site.

ENUGU-THE corpse of a herbalist, Rowland Iyida, who was kidnapped along with a Catholic priest, Rev. Father Chijioke Amoke, last weekend at Onitsha Enugu-Ezike, Igboeze North Local Government Area of Enugu State, was Wednesday dumped inside the premises of the Anglican Church at Uda, Enugu-Ezike.

Umuahia-ABIA State governor, Chief Theodore Orji, Wednesday ordered all road contractors in the state back to site, with a promise that funds would be released to them.

As opposition continues to mount against the planned removal of subsidy on Petrol in January 2012 by the Federal Government, organized labour has asked government and its trumpeters to demonstrate how the proposed policy will reduce poverty and unemployment in Nigeria.

No fewer than 15 mobile policemen have been killed in the last three weeks in three separate armed robbery attacks and several millions of naira carted away by bandits in Port Harcourt, Rivers State.

Confusion, Wednesday, enveloped Ikarama community in Okordia clan in Yenagoa Local Government Area of Bayelsa State when an oil spill, from a facility owned by Shell Petroleum Development Company, triggered an outbreak of fire in the predominantly agrarian settlement.

A five-man panel of Justices of the Supreme Court, Wednesday, okayed a petition seeking to sack Governor Saidu Nasamu of Kebbi State, from office on the premise that his re-election was in violation of the Electoral Act.

Six days after Chief Noble Ewege, Deputy Paramount Ruler of Otuokpoti community in Ogbia Local Government Area of Bayelsa State, was shot and taken captive by armed gunmen who invaded his residence last Friday, his abductors have demanded N50 million ransom before he could regain freedom.

A Benin-based actor, Mr. Daniel Iyamu, has been allegedly killed in his sleep by his wife in Ugbihoko quarters, Egor North-East Local Government Area of Edo State.