The oil is produced in the Niger Delta, yet, it is the people of the Northeast and the Northwest and a little of North-Central , almost nothing for the South-West and South-East, that own and control these oil blocks. Almost nothing for the South-South, Niger Delta oil producing areas”.

Sleep has been described by different people in different ways.Some see sleep as the golden chain that ties health and bodies together while some say it is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.”

Today’s piece is sequel to Toyin Dawodu’s earlier article “Stable Electricity Still a Decade Away from Nigeria”. Toyin, a Nigerian in the Diaspora, is Managing Partner of Capital Investment Group in California, and also CEO of an outfit currently testing alternative and clean energy generation.

BENIN—FRESH crisis is brewing at Uselu Psychiatric Hospital in Benin City, Edo State, as the Senior Staff Association of the hospital, weekend, accused the Chief Medical Director, Dr. Sunday Olotu, of alleged refusal to give a written approval to some officials of the union, who were invited by Department of State Security, DSS, in the state.

Rivers State Government, has said that 25 persons were affected in the early morning fire outbreak at Ogolomo, in Okrika Local Government Area of the state, yesterday.

The Managing Director of Nigerian Airspace Management Agency, NAMA, Engr. Mazi Nnamdi Udoh, has told the agency’s staff to maintain an atmosphere of co-operation and harmony in the course of their duty as this is critical to the attainment of both individual and organisational goals.

The falling Standard of Ethics in the banking sector has been blamed on professionals who fail to be dedicated to their job.

Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON) has introduced new guidelines to strengthen its Conformity Assessment Programme (SONCAP) and checkmate the influx of substandard products into the country.

There are indications that management of the Nigeria Stock Exchange acted independently of the Council of the Exchange and the broking community when it banned broking and research firms from distributing or using the market data of the Exchange. Vanguard investigations reveal the ban came as a surprise to Council members as it was yet to be discussed their meetings.

Standard Chartered Bank’s Africa Chief Executive Officer, Diana Layfied, has said that the 14 percent intraregional trade among African countries is still too low compared to 80 percent intraregional trade in the European Union and Asia’s 60 percent