WARRI—IJAW host communities of flow stations and well heads in Diebiri Egbema, Gbaramatu, Iduwini, Ogbe-Ijoh, Ogulaghan and Kou Kingdoms, Delta State, weekend, gave oil companies operating in the state a seven-day ultimatum to vacate their personnel and contractors from their various Ijaw territories, starting from today.

At the backdrop of expected positive impact of the recent foreign exchange policy changes by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) on the export sector of the economy, operators in the agro-allied industry, has said they are losing billions of Naira in revenue daily, a development which has forced many of them out of the business.

The recent announcement by the Federation Accounts Allocation Committee, of over N760bn disbursement to cash famished states, was popularly regarded as a bailout package, despite clarifications from the President’s Media Adviser that the income was actually the constitutional entitlement of the three tiers of government.

Lagos—In a move to possibly prevent the publication of names of chronic bank debtors in national dailies as directed by the apex bank, the Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry, LCCI, yesterday, cautioned against the move.

YENAGOA- Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth, Nigeria, ERA/FoEN, an environmental pressure group has reported that there is an ongoing oil leak from Shell’s Adibawa Well 8 in Edagberi community of Rivers State.

NIGERIA is a reservoir of skillful footballers. From Thunder Balogun to Haruna Ilerika, Inua Rigogo to Emmanuel Okala, Tony Igwe (World Two) to Chairman Christian Chukwu (CCC) Sanni Mohammed to Muda Lawal, Kanu Nwankwo to Jay Jay Okocha, Nigeria produced them all.

The Nigerian-British Chamber of Commerce (NBCC) has called on the government to come up with viable legal framework for real estate sector to provide affordable houses for Nigerians.

China released data on its gold holdings for the first time in about six years, but investors say the guessing game about the country’s actual inventory continues.

YENAGOA—Bayelsa State government says it is reworking its financial management strategies to cushion the adverse effects of the shortfalls from the Federation Account to the state, due to dwindling oil prices at the international market.

M r. Anthony Okpala is the Managing Director/ Chief Executive Officer of Carlsbury Winery Limited, makers of Cartier wines. Okpala has a first degree in Food Technology and a master’s in Business Management from Texas A & M University, USA.