Oil producers are evacuating workers from the Niger Delta because of deteriorating security situation in Nigeria’s most important oil-producing region, organised labour has said.

A businessman based in Agbor, Delta State, Mr Emmanuel Akoje, has petitioned the Chief of Army Staff over his alleged brutalization, intimidation and harassment by one Corporal S. Auwalu attached to the Nigerian Army base in Boji-Boji Owanta, Agbor.

THE Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has said that the ongoing probe of the alleged digitization scandal by the Economic and Financial Crime Commission, EFCC will go on despite the successful launch of the pilot scheme of the project.

The Inspector General of Police, IGP, Solomon Arase has dispatched a high-powered investigative team to fish out the herdsmen who unleashed mayhem on the people of Nimbo community in Uzo-Uwani Local Government Area of Enugu State, about two weeks ago.

FEDERAL government of Nigeria is not leaving any stone unturned in its quest to deploy massive broadband connections necessary to give ubiquitous internet experience to Nigerians. This is considering that Broadband has now become an essential feature of modern life. It affects everything people do or even aspire to do.

The Federal Government has set in motion strategies to resolve the court action by Global Infrastructure on Ajaokuta Steel Complex to get it operational in the next 24 months.
Minister of Solid Minerals, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, who disclosed this at the Ministerial Town Hall meeting in Kaduna, yesterday, revealed that Ukranians, Russians and Chinese investors have shown interests in the complex.

Crude Oil prices rose yesterday, boosted by supply disruptions in Canada and Nigeria that have knocked out 2.5 million barrels of daily production and temporarily eclipsed concern over high global inventories and a looming surplus of refined products.

President Muhammadu Buhari, yesterday expressed the commitment of his administration to lifting Nigerians out of poverty, describing employment as “the quickest way to escape poverty.”

A certain Mr Daniel Aransiola who relocated to his home town in Osun State after his retirement from the public service in Lagos got the surprise of his life when he visited the envisaged mega-city last weekend.

The south-east geopolitical zone caucus of the All Progressives Congress, APC, yesterday, appealed to Niger Delta Avengers, NDA, to sheathe their swords and give President Muhammadu Buhari more time to look into their demands.