PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan has directed Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan of Delta State to resolve the no love lost relationship between former militant and Ijaw leader, Chief Government Ekpemupolo, alias Tompolo, and Itsekiri youth leader, Chief Ayiri Emami, which blew open, weekend, at his meeting with them in Asaba, the state capital.

The efforts of the Nigerian Export-Import Bank (NEXIM) to facilitate the establishment of a regional maritime company, The Sealink Project, has received a fresh boost with the signing of a financial grant with the African Development Bank (AfDB) for $302,000 under the aegis of the Nigerian Technical Cooperation Fund (NTCF).

Data from the Nigerian Stock Exchange, NSE, showed a significant drop in foreign investors’ participation as at December 2014, while a significant increase was recorded on domestic side. During the period ended December 31, 2014, foreign investors’ participation on the NSE dropped to 48.24 percent, as against 80.92 participation rate achieved in November 2014.

THE national chairman of All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, Chief Victor Umeh, has said that only serious-minded people were good for the next Nigerian senate.

Delta State All Progressives Congress, APC, governorship candidate, Olorogun O’tega Emerhor, has assured that the APC will form the next government of Nigeria, adding that history was about to be made as Nigerians were tired of the ruling party that has continued to plunge the nation into economic backwardness.

Labour Party, LP, governorship candidate in Delta State, Chief Great Ogboru, yesterday, said he is the authentic Ndokwa and Anioma candidate for next month’s election.

Yenagoa— Governor Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa State has said that the major focus of his administration was to transform the state’s economy from a consuming to a production-oriented one to cushion the effects of dwindling oil revenues.

The Golden Eaglets of have finished fourth at the 2015 AYC after losing 3-1 to the Syli Babes of Guinea in a 3rd/4th place playoff match at the Stade Général S. K.

BENIN—THE Enogie (Duke) of Obazuwa and younger brother to the Benin monarch, Prince Edun Akenzua, has warned the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, that their ‘death wish’ campaigns against the presidential candidate of All Progressives Congress, APC, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, may be their albatross in the forthcoming general elections, if they don’t stop.

AHEAD of the March 28 National Assembly elections, the Igbo Political Forum, Abuja and political stakeholders of Igbo extraction in the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, have denied Abuja based newspaper publications which claimed that Barr. Maxwell Opera, the APGA candidate for the AMAC/Bwari federal constituency election has been purportedly endorsed by Eze Ndigbo, (FCT), Eze Ibe Nwosu.