The Executive Director, Sahara Energy, Mr. Wale Ajibade said the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, has conformed with international best practices in all dealings with their international and Nigerian-owned trading partners

The failure of policy objectives in the maritime industry has been attributed to the absence of stakeholders, input in the formulation of such policies.

Immediate past Chairman of Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, South-East zone, Bishop Emmanuel Chukwuma, has expressed delight over the regular use of Akanu Ibiam International Airport Enugu as take-off point for Christian pilgrims to the Holy Land

PRESIDENT General of Uvwie Kingdom, Uvwie Local Government Area, Delta State, Chief MacDonald Ugbewanku, has urged the Federal Government to prevail on the Nigerian Army to leave Ohore land for the indigenes, describing the planed demolition of houses in the community by soldiers as mischievous and unfortunate.

The former Managing Director of Vitafoam, Mr. Bamidele Makanjuola, has blamed the “dysfunctional state of the Nigerian economy and the country in general” on the failure of the country’s leaders to do things the right way.

A daughter of the former Chief Architect of Lagos State, Adesoye Simeon Osinuga has appealed to the state governor, Babatunde Fashola over the revocation of right of occupancy of her late father’s property in Omole Estate, Lagos.

HE Police in Edo State, yesterday, paraded 50 suspects arrested in connection with robbery, cultism, rape, illegal possession of firearms and defilement.

The decision by the Presidency to suspend Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, as Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, for official impropriety has been described as a welcome development, and is good for the country’s financial markets and the economy in general.

THE aspiration of a House of Representatives member, Mr. Ndudi Elumelu of becoming the next governor of Delta State has received a boost. Elumelu with his entourage was at the palace of the Olu of Warri, Atuwatse II, who gave him his fatherly blessings and prayed for him to succeed

THE Esan people in Edo State have called for the restructuring of the country into eight functional, autonomous and competitive regions, noting that the Mid-West region has till date remained the only democratically created region in the country since 1963.

At least one person has died, and 49 others hospitalised following their intake of polluted water and consumption of meals prepared with the contaminated water, after an oil spill from the facility of Nigeria Petroleum Development Company, NPDC, ravaged no fewer than 40 communities in Warri North and Warri South West Local Government Areas of Delta State.

Chairman, Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund, NSTIF, Dr. Ngozi Olejeme, has attributed the low participation of women in politics to the prevailing social and economic condition in the country, as well as the existing political structures

President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday declared the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP as the only platform for Nigerians born into disadvantaged families like him to rise to eminence.

The Federal Government is set to award 31 marginal fields, the second time since 2003. Engineer Barry Esimone, Chief Executive Officer, Crusteam, an energy and infrastructure group, in this interview with Sebastine Obasi, appraises the last bid round and the expectations of the current one. Excerpts

As the fuel scarcity enters the fourth day, with commuters and motorists in Lagos and its environs subjected to severe hardship, marketers, yesterday, denied hoarding the product. They, however, blamed the current scarcity on the delay in the release of the first quarter import allocations.