The Nigeria LNG Limited, NLNG, Nigeria’s major producer and exporter of liquefied natural gas, last year realised over $10billion despite the continued global recession.

How time flies. On May 25, Hon. Henry Seriake Dickson will be 100 days old at the Creek Haven as governor of Bayelsa State. Since the former police officer and lawmaker representing Sagbama/ Ekeremor Federal Constituency at the National Assembly has achieved so much within this short period, the expectation of many analysts is that he should celebrate it with pomp and pageantry.

The former President of the National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, NUPENG, Comrade Peter Akpatason, has commended the Reginald Stanley-led management of the Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency, PPPRA, for instituting transparency and sanity in the operations of the agency.

The Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Ltd, SPDC Joint Venture has commenced repair of the Nembe Creek Trunkline, NCTL, after shutting it down on May 2nd because of incessant crude theft activities.

COncerned about spate of collapsed buildings, abandoned projects and proliferation of substandard materials in the construction industry, the President of Association of Professional Bodies of Nigeria APBN, Mr. Segun Ajanlekoko, has called on members of the Building Collapse Prevention Guild BCPG, to take a major step towards resolving challenges with relevant regulatory agencies for more proactive actions in the industry.

Power Holding Company of Nigeria, PHCN, has been given a 21 day ultimatum to refund the sum of N378billion allegedly collected from electricity consumers in the country for the purpose of meter maintenance.

Acting Inspector-General of Police, Mr Mohammed Abubakar, yesterday in Lagos, said that henceforth, any policeman who harasses journalists would be sanctioned, adding that the era of business as usual in the force was over.

As the Nigerian economy continues to attract foreign investors, a group of Americans have concluded plans to establish a tractor manufacturing firm in Nigeria. This is in line with the vision of the federal government to diversify the nation’s economic base from oil to other sectors such as agriculture where the country has comparative advantages.

The Lagos State government-owned recycling plant situated at the Olusosun Landfill site at the Ojota area of the state has commenced full capacity operation with several installed odour neutralizers and mobile atomizers to douse the erstwhile poignant odour oozing from the site, especially when it rains.

The management of Ibom Power Station said the plant has made significant progress in power generation since it began operations in December 2009, which peaked at 68 megawatts, MW in December 2011.

PRESIDENT of National Association of Seadogs, Calabar chapter, Cross River State, Dr. Ofem Enang, weekend, accused the Federal Government of knowing those behind the insecurity in the country but lacked the political will to prosecute them.

Three years after the Zamfara Lead poisoning disaster, a non-governmental group NGO – Sustainable Research Action for Environmental Development SRADev has raised fresh concerns over the harmful effects of the disaster on the environment and lives of the people of Zamfara State.

A Kano State-owned mortgage bank, the Dala Building Society, says it has disbursed N1.36 billion housing loans to no fewer than 2, 400 civil servants in the state. The Acting Managing Director of the bank, Alhaji Abdulnasser Abdu, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Kano on Saturday that N480 million were disbursed 2,000 workers from May 2011 to date.

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP, has called on the Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Justice Dahiru Musdapher, to appoint an independent counsel to investigate allegations of corruption in the abandoned roads and other projects by the Federal Government nationwide.