ABEOKUTA—Vice Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, South- South region, Chief Tom Ikimi, has raised the alarm over the impending exodus of members of the party nationwide, urging party leaders to urgently wade into the crisis rocking the party in some states, including Ogun, Delta, Bayelsa, Akwa Ibom, Cross Rivers and Edo states, to avoid a political disaster.

Bayelsa State Government has written the Nigerian Army to accord late Ijaw hero, Major Isaac Boro full military burial for his role in fighting to preserve the unity of the country during the Civil War.

A DELEGATE to the ongoing National Conference, Dr Chris Eluemunoh, has stressed the need for exploration companies in Nigeria to compensate host communities that have been polluted by their activities.

Transnational Corporation of Nigeria (Transcorp) Plc, Nigerian shareholders, and the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), have signed a production sharing contract for the exploration and production of OPL 281, under which Transcorp committed to a work programme to prove and develop an estimated 104 million barrels of oil reserves, an additional 335 million barrels of probable reserves, and approximately 4 trillion cubic feet (tcf) of natural gas reserves.

THE National Pension Commission, PenCom, has said that every police officer will, in line with section 11(2) of the Pension Reform Act, PRA, 2004, be at liberty to transfer to another Pension Fund Administrator, PFA, of his/her choice as soon as the transfer window is opened by the Commission