Chairman,Ugborodo Community Management Committee, Mr. Austin Oboroegbeyi, has frowned at the rejection of the bill seeking the relocation of headquarters of the various International Oil Companies, IOCs, to the Niger Delta region, by members of the House of Representatives, describing it as unfortunate.

As the ongoing Principals’ Cup football competition for Secondary Schools in Delta State sponsored by Zenith Bank reaches its home stretch, Idjerhe Grammar School will meet Ogbe-Ijaw Grammar School in Sapele Stadium on Monday (today), in the first semifinal match of the competition.

Lagos—The New Nigeria People’s Party, NNPP, has said it will present candidates in the July 22 local government elections only in 15 of the 57 council areas of the state

Former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mr Emeka Ihedioha, has commended Rivers State governor, Mr Nyesom Wike, for executing lifetime legacy projects across the state.

Commissioner for Commerce and Industry in Delta State, Mrs May Iyasere, has again commended the visionary leadership of the state governor, Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa.

A limited liability company, Lotabin Integrated Limited, has dragged Air Vice Marshall Morgan, Flight Lt Anyebe, Officer in-Charge of Airforce Base, Ikeja, Lagos Police Commissioner and Inspector-General of Police, before a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, over the alleged arrest and brutalisation of one Mufu Adedokun and Shakiru Kazeem, engaged by the company to keep watch over its land, situated at Origanrigan village, Ibeju Lekki Local Government Area, Lagos State, which was allegedly invaded by Airforce personnel.

NINETEEN journalists were detained by the military following the April 22, 1990 attempted coup. It was a season of bloodbath and a number of us journalists who were free including Richard Akinnola, Lanre Arogundade, Kelly Elisha, Tunji Bello, Femi Ojudu, Ladi Lawal, Kayode Komolafe and then newly elected President of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ, Sani Zorro, swung into action.

lagos—THE Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi and National Coordinator of the Oodua Peoples Congress, OPC, Otunba Gani Adams have called on the Federal Government to focus attention on cultural tourism as a way of diversifying the nation’s economy from oil.

WARRI—THE Itsekiri Progress Club, Warri, Delta State, weekend, condemned the recent decision of the House of Representatives turning down the motion calling on oil and gas companies in Nigeria, particularly the upstream operators, to relocate their administrative headquarters to the areas of their operations, describing the decision as baseless and provocative.

UYO—Akwa Ibom State acting Chief Judge, Justice Godwin Abraham and the Judiciary Staff Union of Nigeria, JUSUN, have concluded plans to take legal action against the Nigerian Army over alleged human rights abuses.