Indigenous joint venture partners, Energia Limited and the Oando Group, have said that the only way to run a smooth operation in the communities is through partnership with the host communities.

Former Managing Director of Financial Institutions Training Centre, FITC, Mr. Oladimeji Alo, has advised insurance operators to create a strategy that suits their own business pattern and not involve themselves in every business in the insurance sector.

President Goodluck Jonathan has continued to demonstrate his administration’s commitment towards developing the mining and minerals sector as a counter-force to oil and gas exploitation.

Minister of Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Senator Bala Mohammed, has assured the Bauchi State Governor, Malam Isa Yuguda, of Federal Government’s assistance on road projects.

Egbema/Gbaramatu Central Development Council, EGCDC, a community-based developmental organisation initiated by Chevron Nigeria Limited and Delta State Government to interface between oil and gas-bearing communities of Egbema and Gbaramatu Kingdoms, has donated sewing machines worth N6 million to fashion and designs trainees in Warri.

It was another feather in the cap of the nation’s foremost road maintenance agency, the Federal Roads Maintenance Agency (FERMA) as it won the Nigeria Institute of Public Relations’ 2011 PR Golden Eagle Award as having best Public Relations Department in public sector at its Awards Night last weekend.

DEMOCRACY has therefore not been the project of any Nigerian electoral or military government. In what sense then was Nigerian politics of the Second Republic prebendal? How did Richard Joseph coin the adjective prebendal?

WORKERS in the Power Holding Company of Nigeria, PHCN, have insisted on the October 31 deadline to the Federal Government and their management to pay the 50 percent agreed salary increment or risk industrial unrest.

ONITSHA- Anambra State Government has released N200 million to the Foundation of Anambra State Security Trust Fund to boost security in the state.

Royal Dutch Shell has awarded a N7.8 billion ($49.9 million) contract to a Nigerian firm, S.C.C Limited, for the manufacture of line pipes, in an effort to boost local production capacity of a key pipeline making material.

Royal Dutch Shell Plc, operator of Nigeria’s largest oil fields, plans to boost its natural-gas production in the country as it starts a new facility and cuts flaring, or the burning of the fuel at fields.

ABUJA-After six months of intense legal fireworks at the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal sitting at the Abuja Division of the Court of Appeal, a five-man panel of justices will today determine whether the April 16 general election was duly won by President Goodluck Jonathan or not.

Africa Free Zones Authority (AFZA) has attributed the stagnant growth of free zones in the country to non- utilisation of huge opportunities in the scheme.

Minister for Interior, Comrade Abba Moro, spoke to reporters recently in Makurdi recently, on a number of issues including the security challenges the nation is facing.

International oil companies in Nigeria, IOCs, have been accused of refusing local insurance companies the opportunity to cover their risks under the guise that the local underwriters don’t have international credit ratings.