Delta State Government has advised oil host communities to desist from obstructing the operations of oil and gas companies in the state.

CUSTOMS licensed agents have decried incessant breakdown of server at the Tin-Can Island port, a development that sometimes make cargoes run into unnecessary demurrage.

LAST month, established writers,literary aficionados, Rainbow Book Club members gathered on at Le Meridien, Ogeyi Place to discuss Chimamanda Adichie’s latest novel, Americanah. Those present grappled afresh with issues like race (‘blackness’), immigration, deportation and class, thanks to Adichie’s skilled writing that allows readers to form their own opinions. The novel was Rainbow Book Club’s book-of-the-month for July.

Former President, Nigeria Bar Association (NBA), Mr Olisa Agbakoba SAN, has filed a suit against Ekiti State Attorney General, over non payment of the state’s judiciary Consolidated Revenue Fund directly to the head of the judiciary, contrary to Section 121(3) of the 1999 Constitution.

THOUGH the 61st annual convention of the Redeemed Christian Church of God kicked of on Monday with the ordination of over 8,000 deacons and deaconesses, the actual opening ceremony did not take place until late Tuesday evening.

Graduating students of Pacific College, Shasha Akowonjo, have been charged to acquire skills in their diverse areas of interests so as to be armed for the country’s economic challenges which would render public service jobs less attractive in the nearest future.

Majority Leader of Rivers State House of Assembly, Chidi Lloyd, who is facing a six-count charge of conspiracy and attempted murder before a Rivers State High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, was granted bail, Wednesday,, in the sum of N40 million.

Yemen said Wednesday it had foiled an Al-Qaeda plot to storm a Western-run oil terminal and seize a provincial capital, as a terror alert kept US Middle East missions closed.

ABUJA— The Federal Capital Territory Administration, FCTA, Wednesday, said 120 of every 1,000 children born in the FCT die at birth as 425 of every 100,000 women that give birth in the territory lose their lives in the process of delivery.

Former militant leaders from the Niger Delta region, yesterday, threatened to disrupt legislative session of the National Assembly next Monday, over the persistent scarcity of kerosene and alleged gross inability of Pipeline and Product Marketing Company, PPMC, to increase supply of the product in the country.

Fenerbahce have agreed a deal with Spartak Moscow for the transfer of Nigeria striker Emmanuel Emenike.

The Nigerian Olympic Committee (NOC) has endorsed and ready to partner with the Nigerian Sports Award as a very credible award for recognizing and rewarding outstanding Nigerian sports men and women in the country.

Three public school students in Rivers State will represent the country at the EURASIAN International Debate Competition in Turkey.

THE President of Mothers’ Union/Women’s Guide and Wife of Primate, Church of Nigeria (Anglican Communion), Mrs Nkasiobi Okoh has stated categorically that Anglican women will not support legalization of underage girl marriage, currently being championed by some quarters.

The South-West zone of the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) on Wednesday called on the Federal government to meet the demands of striking university lecturers to save undergraduates’ future.