African ministers of trade and experts in trade and regional integration have agreed to boycott planned signing of Economic Partnership Agreement, EPA, with European Union. The signing of the agreement is scheduled for October 1, 2014.

The quest by Delta North to produce the next state governor, seemingly at all costs is worrying. Attempts to dignify the quest with other ideas betray the true motive of the advocates.

Despite my hope and preferred choices, I was made a member of the Political Parties and Electoral Matters Committee of the National Conference. Frankly, I had wanted, above all else, to serve in the committee dealing with political restructuring issues.

FORMER Governor of Bayelsa State and a delegate at the National Conference, Chief Diepreye Alamieyeseigha, has berated those calling for the reduction of the 13 per cent derivation to five per cent, declaring that he would not give up fighting for resource control until the Niger Delta region begins to controls its resources.

THE Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has expressed concern over the incessant delay in the transmission of cargo information and decided to engage a new telecom firm.

Oil major, Shell may take up to a year to complete a planned sale of assets in Nigeria, and the process may be complicated by an election, the oil major’s Chief Financial Officer, CFO, said.

THE Association of Senior Civil Servants of Nigeria, ASCSN, yesterday called on Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State to stop his perceived campaign against retaining the National Minimum Wage, NMW, in the Exclusive Legislative list or face the wrath of Nigerian workers.

SEVEN years after the establishment of Ajoki Secondary School, the only secondary school in Ajoki, an Itsekiri oil-producing community in Ikpoba-Okha Local Government Area of Edo State, the indigenes have continued to decry what they describe as government’s insensitivity to the plights of the school children.

WIth the rise in population over the years, the world Bank says, from approximately 140 million in 2006, 162 million in 2011 , to 174 million in 2013 and predicted 221 million by 2020, every aspect of the nation has experienced rapid change.

Controversy has continued to trail a vast area of land that shares boundaries with the Oniru, the Elegushi, and the Olumegbon estates in Lekki area of Eti-Osa Local Government Area in Lagos State. The battle is between the Ojomu Chieftaincy Family, the estate of Gbadamosi Bandele Eletu and the Lagos State Government, as a result of different interpretations the parties involved recently gave to a Supreme Court judgment.

AHEAD of the June 21 governorship election in Ekiti State, the police command yesterday said it arrested three members of a political party for gun-running and illegal possession of firearms.

AFTER days of verbal fisticuffs among members on whether or not oil and other mineral resources should be moved to the concurrent list or retained in the federal exclusive list, the Committee on Devolution of Powers, yesterday, reached a consensus on the matter.

Furthermore, the conditions specified under section 292(1 )(a)(ii) of the Constitution for the exercise of the power of removal must be satisfied before such power can be validly exercised by both the Governor and the House of Assembly. This is because any exercise of power to remove a chief judge must be based on his:

The Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, has said the country earned N1.104 trillion from crude oil in the first two months of the year.

The Federal Government, yesterday, said with effect from today, electricity consumers that had no power supply for 15 days in a month are no longer required to pay the monthly N750 fixed charge to their respective Distribution Companies, Discos.