ASABA—WORRIED by the persistent attacks on oil installations in the Niger Delta region, Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State, has said that an all-embracing dialogue involving all stakeholders, including foreign interests was the only panacea to the crisis in the region.

Dr. (Mrs.) Oby Ezekwesili, Co-convener of the BBOG spoke to Vanguard yesterday evening on the sidelines of the sit-in of the group at the Unity Fountain.

Following the fresh outbreak of Lassa Fever in Plateau State, the state government has put measures in place to contain the spread of the disease.

Niger State government has fulfilled its promise of repaying the 30 percent deducted from the salaries of civil servants in the state.

Youths, on the platform of Peace Club, formed by Healthcare Development Focus Initiatives, HECADF, a non-governmental organisation, with support from Nigeria Stability and Reconciliation Programme, NSRP, has been commended for voluntarily embarking on sweeping mosques and churches, sand-filling of swampy areas and evacuation of refuse dumps in various wards of Maiduguri metropolis and Jere Local Government Area of Borno State.

A group of ex-militants in the Niger Delta region, Niger Delta Development Movement, NDDM, yesterday raised alarm that some Ijaw communities along the coastal area were on the verge of being submerged by flooding, occasioned by the opening up of a canal that leads to the Atlantic Ocean by the Federal Government and Chevron Nigeria Limited.

Nnimmo, Director, Health of Mother Earth Foundation spoke, yesterday in Port Harcourt, Rivers State at a two day training programme for members of the Rivers State House of Assembly on the Role of Legislators on Natural Resources Governance , Business and Human Rights organised by Centre for Human Rights and the Environment in the Niger Delta, CEHRD.

The Federal Government has decried the inability of the previous administration to settle outstanding N65 billion debt owed to fertiliser suppliers.

A pressure group, Imo Mass Movement, IMM, has called on the Federal Government, to quickly withdraw the men of the Joint Military Task Force, deployed to the Awarra Court Area in Ohaji/Egbema Local Government Area of Imo State, to avoid truncating the ongoing conflict resolution process in the area.

The Enugu State University of Science and Technology, ESUT, and the University College, Cork, Ireland,Monday, signed a Memorandum of Understanding, MoU, that test- runs a mobile phone application for the treatment of under five year old diseases prevalent in children in Enugu State.