Niger Delta activist and chieftain of All Progressives Congress, APC, Chief Ayirimi Emami, has urged the Federal Government to seriously consider full deregulation of the oil and gas sector, insisting that it was the only way to end the endless fuel crisis in Nigeria.

For Nigeria’s and Africa’s women, youth, rural populations, the urban poor, the underemployed and unemployed, the current economic realities offer no hope for a change in their circumstances. Mass poverty is endemic across the continent, and shows no signs of waning.

No fewER than six people were killed, six houses razed, and about 15 vehicles burnt in Kaduna and Ondo states, Saturday, as fire gutted filling stations, just as officers of Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, Ogun State Command, invaded a MRS Filling Station and reportedly attacked five workers at the station in Ogun State.

As part of programmes to mark its 23rd anniversary, non-banking finance institution, Rosabon Financial Services has entered into a strategic partnership with a non government organisation, NGO Mamamoni, to empower 23 women with soft grants and capacity building.

NIGER Delta oil-rich coastal communities of Ojobo, Ogbotobo and Tarakiri Cluster Development Board, TCDB, comprising Egbemo, Angalabiri, Ojobo, Ogbotobo, Agbayama, Agbidiama and other satellite communities, both in Burutu and Ekeremo Local Government Areas of Delta and Bayelsa States, have said that there was no time they issued quit notice to Saipem and other oil firms operating in their localities.