Chairman, House of Representative Committee on Petroleum Resources (Downstream), Hon. DakukuPeterside, has observed that the private sector holds the key to the effective harnessing and utilisation of the nation’s hydrocarbon resources for overall economic growth.

JOINT Task Force, JTF, has accused multinational oil companies of insincerity in the crusade against illegal bunkering operations in the Niger Delta region.

ABUJA – Ahead of today’s democracy day celebrations, Acting Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Abubakar, has warned politicians and political stakeholders to stop heating up the polity by their utterances and to eschew acts capable of endangering the survival of democracy in the country.

Niger Delta Indigenous Movement for Radical Change, NDIMRC, has urged the Petroleum Minister, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke, to sanction multi-national oil companies, which fail to implement the Nigeria’s Local Content Law.

Gombe State government has given immediate employment to 1,997 youths who have successfully completed their training under the state government Youth Rehabilitation and Empowerment Programme, YREP.

ABUJA – An Abuja High Court, yesterday, slated July 2 to rule on two separate preliminary objections, seeking to abort the prosecution of the former Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Capital Market and Other Institutions, Mr. Herman Hembe and his erstwhile deputy, Mr. Chris Ifeanyi Azubogu over their alleged complicity in a N44 million bribery scandal.

Poor awareness of Nigerians, policy makers and organised private sector on the value of research in national development has been blamed for poor research findings in the country.

GOVERNOR Martin Elechi of Ebonyi State yesterday, warned that communities involved in communal wars would no longer enjoy infrastructural development as the state government was determined to implement its policy on “No peace, No Amenity” in the affected communities.

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THE circumstances surrounding the brutal murder of three blood brothers at their family house in Ikot-Ekpene, has continued to generate tension in Akwa-Ibom State following allegations by the family of the victims that some security operatives were responsible for the death.

UMUAHIA—ABIA State Governor, Chief Theodore has vowed to hold transition committee chairmen and traditional rulers of the three oil producing Local Government Areas in the state responsible for future cases of pipeline vandalisation in the area. The three Local Government Areas are Ukwa East, Ukwa West and Ugwunagbo.