AS part of efforts to industralise Bayelsa State and make it a hub for economic activities, Governor Seriake Dickson has inaugurated a committee for the utilization and non-utilization of gas resources.

HUNDREDS of protesting contractors of Nigerian Agip Oil Company, NAOC, were stopped by soldiers from marching on the oil giant in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, yesterday to register their grievances.

Itsekiri Leaders of Thought, ILoT, has insisted that the disputed Ogbe-Ijoh Market in Warri, Delta State, belongs to the Itsekiti, as it called on the state government to hand over the market to Warri South Local Government Area of the state.

The Board of AMI has elected, Mr. Wale Aboderin as the new Chair of the organisation.

The Hydrocarbon Pollution Remediation Project, HYPREP, yesterday, commenced sensitization of residents of Ogoni, Rivers State, on its activities, in view of the commencement of the remediation of the area about to start soon.

Benue State government has warned that the threat by the herdsmen’s socio-cultural organisation, Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore, to forcefully take over part of the state for cattle grazing in defiance of the state’s anti-open grazing law, is an invitation to anarchy in the North Central geo-political zone of the country.

Attempt by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, to restrain the Ekiti State Governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose, from operating his accounts in Zenith Bank Plc, hit the rock, as the Appeal Court sitting in Ado Ekiti yesterday, dismissed the anti-graft agency’s application .

Lagos State will play host for 10 days, to the Department of Fine and Applied Arts, University of Nigeria, UNN, as it celebrates its 56th anniversary tagged: Nkoli Ka, Nsukka School after 50 years.

AWKA – RADIOGRAPH- ERS in Nigeria have drawn a battle line with medical doctors for allegedly championing the registration of the proposed National Council of Radiology, NCR, now before the national assembly. The bill has passed second reading and awaiting public hearing.

In a major move to force the Presidency to remove the Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Ibrahim Magu, from his post, the Senate is reportedly mulling a resolution asking Nigerians invited by the commission over graft-related issues to ignore such summons.

UNITED Capital Asset Management has blamed the lull in the stock market experienced in the first quarter of this year to the economic challenges being faced by the country.

The Governor of Osun State, Mr Rauf Aregbesola, has urged the United States of America to seriously consider its stand concerning climate change, as whatever decision America takes will seriously affect many countries of the world.

The Department of State Services, DSS, has released Mr Ifeanyi Ubah, Managing Director of Capital Oil and Gas Limited, after keeping him in detention for more than five weeks.

Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, Nigeria branch will on July 7, launch her Micro, Small and Medium enterprises, SMEs scheme.

The Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, yesterday, announced exposure draft framework for the creation of the second version of the Asset Management Company of Nigeria, AMCON, known as AMCON 2, to tackle the over N2 trillion non-performing loans in the banking sector.