UMUAHIA- Protest, Monday, erupted in Umuahia, the Abia State capital as members of the ruling Labour Party, marched through major streets to register their dissatisfaction over the sack of the Senate Minority Whip and Senator representing Abia Central, Senator Darlington Nwokocha (LP).

With Nigeria’s oil export curtailed by massive pipeline vandalism and oil theft, the Chairman/GCEO, Oilserve Group, Engr. Emeka Okwuosa has blamed obsolete pipeline systems that lack the latest monitoring technology for the constant attacks on the crude oil pipelines across the Niger Delta region.

The two in-house unions in the nation’s Maritime industry, the Maritime Workers Union of Nigeria, MWUN, and the Senior Staff Association of Statutory Corporations and Government Owned Companies, SSASCGOC, Nigerian Ports Authority, NPA, branch, have rejected the Ports and Harbour Bill at the National Assembly, seeking to repeal the Act that sets up the NPA.

President Bola Tinubu has tasked African leaders with full automation in order to remain competitive in the maritime sector.

British premier Rishi Sunak has described allegations that a lawmaker from his own party committed a series of rapes as “very serious” as he insisted his party’s complaints procedures are “robust”.