OANDO Marketing Limited, OML, a subsidiary of Nigeria’s energy giant, Oando PLC, has recorded a landmark achievement with the signing of an operating agreement with Banner Gas, an engineering, construction and maintenance company with expertise in gas storage facilities for the installation of Liquefied Petroleum Gas, LPG filling plants at Oando service stations nationwide.

NIGERIA Labour Congress, NLC, has announced that Labour and its civil society allies under the aegis of Labour and Civil Society Coalition, LASCO, would today, in the ancient city of Kano, Kano State, resume the national protest rallies against government planned full deregulation of the downstream sector of the petroleum sector, privatisation of public refineries among others, suspended about a month ago.

SHELL has said its Nigerian joint venture had extended forces majeure on Bonny Light and Forcados crude to include oil exports for June.

The strategic relationship between Nigeria and China will be further strengthened as Mr. Jiang Jianqing, Chairman of Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) Limited, visits the country.

PRESIDENT Umaru Yar’Adua has said that if Nigeria as a nation must not compromise its quest for economic development, there was the urgent need for us to imbibe a culture of transparency, probity and accountability.