IT has been one month since the ravaging floods submerged several communities in worst hit Ahoada West, Ahoada and Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni localities of coastal Rivers State. Over the weekend, the State Commissioner for Information, Mrs. Ibim Semenitari, and teeming affected victims also confirmed that the marauding floods have further started overwhelming communities in Abua/Odua Local Government Area too.

Bonny community in Rivers State is home to a Shell oil terminal and the Nigerian Liquefied Natural Gas, NLNG. Over the course of these corporate tenants’ business of tapping crude oil and gas deposits in the shores of this tiny island, there has been established, as in most oil host communities, a love-hate relationship in which the natives repeatedly feel compelled to sack the operating companies for perceived unsatisfactory returns to the landlords.

The Managing Director, Lagos Waste Management Authority, LAWMA, Mr. Ola Oresanya has said that the ‘Waste-for-Food’ initiative recently introduced by the state government was to bring about development and wealth creation to state.

If some officials of the Zonal Office of Nigerian Immigration Services, NIS, did not invite Vanguard Metro, VM, to the decoration of their newly promoted personnel, our reading public may never have known the level of suffering officers and men of three uniformed organisations are passing through in this day and age.

COMMERCIAL motorcycle operators popularly called ‘Okada riders’, weekend, gathered in their hundreds on the popular Awolowo road in Ikeja as they prepared to march to the seat of government at Alausa.