Confab didn’t address any fundamental issue — Ambaowei, INC leader
ENGINEER Charles Ambaowei is the Acting President of the Ijaw National Congress, INC. In this interview, Ambaowei says that the 2014 National Conference did not address the fundamental issues confronting the country. The Ijaw leader also reviews the nation at 55 and opines that Nigeria’s attempt at nation building is not on the right track.
Why oil communities, multinationals’re at loggerheads
EKET— COMMUNITY leaders and residents of oil communities in Akwa Ibom State have attributed the antagonism between oil multinationals and host communities to marginalization and treachery on the part of oil companies operating in the state and other parts of Niger-Delta region. The village head of Iwu-Okpum in Ibeno Local Government Area of the state, Chief Okon Sunday Akpanowong, and others, who spoke to our reporter on the sidelines of a workshop in Eket, said it was wrong to treat the host communities as subjugated people.
Navy arrests four suspected oil thieves in Rivers
THE Nigerian Navy, has paraded four suspected oil thieves arrested aboard a merchant tanker, MT Ever Rest, few kilometres from the Port Harcourt Refinery on the water channels.
Ugwuanyi reconstitutes c’ttee on Nsukka Urban Renewal
Determined to fulfill his promise to provide equitable distribution of dividends of democracy in the state and constitute a broad-based committee for developing the entire zones of the state, Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State has constituted a committee on Enugu State Urban Renewal with Arc. Chris Offor as Chairman.
NBA honours Obi, Anambra CJ, others
THE Anaocha branch of the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, in Anambra State, has honoured the immediate past governor of Anambra State, Mr. Peter Obi, the Chief Judge of the state, Justice Peter Umeadi and Second Republic senator, Chief Nathaniel Anah for their contributions to the development of the state.
Snakes invade school as flood submerges Edo community
EVBOTUBU — IT is easily one of the fastest growing communities around Benin- City, the capital of Edo State, but this is not the best of times for residents of Evbotubu in Egor Local government Area of the state. They are angry that the road leading community from the heart of the city is impassable. Whenever it rains, bus drivers charge as much as N200 from the Oba Market in the city centre to Evbotubu, instead of the normal N80 due to the appalling condition of the road.
