According to the group “history is replete with dialogue and exchange of correspondences that have been made in the direction of this noble repatriation cause well over ten decades ago by the hospitable people of Edo State to the various arms of government and people of Great Britain to no avail.

The State Commissioner for Economic Development, Mr. Lawrence Udosen, on behalf of Akwa Ibom State government, commended Total Exploration and Production as one of the state’s member on partnership for sustainable development found to discharge her social corporate responsibility justifiably within its areas of operation.

By Peter Duru MAKURDI—The Benue State House of Assembly has directed the Makurdi Branch Manager of the Central Bank  (CBN) to commence the enforcement of the directives issued to commercial banks across the nation to use armoured personnel carriers to convey cash in order to protect the lives of policemen on transit with such cash.

WARRI—A major crude oil spill from an oil Vessel, J.S. Amazing, Lagos, IMO 7304443, at the NNPC Refinery Jetty, Ijalla, Warri, Delta State, has polluted the main Warri rivers, affecting more than ten surrounding communities.

THE National Integrated Power Project (NIPP), sites across the country, are at 75 per cent completion stage.

THE ROTARY Club of Ughelli Metropolis has reiterated its determination to partner with government to develop its immediate community, even as it has earmarked the construction of a roundabout at the Afiesere/Iwhrekpokpo junction of the town at the cost of N2.5 million.

Doctors in an undisclosed hospital around the area are said to be battling to save the life of the victim, a 200 level student of the Lagos State University, Ojo, identified as Adejumoke Okunuga, whose condition was at yesterday said to be critical.

The purported suspension of former Governor Victor Attah by Akwa Ibom state chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party [PDP] on allegations of being reactionary and refractory has been condemned by some high profile politicians of Ibibio origin who have also threatened to leave the party should the situation, which they fear could degenerate into an ethnic war, continue.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), prosecuting the former chairman of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) and five others over alleged inflation and contract splitting, yesterday, closed its case as the defendants open their defence.

Following a wide spread rumour to disrupt road transport operation in some parts of the state, the leadership of Lagos chapter of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW), yesterday, disassociated itself from the speculation, saying there was no such plan by its members to suspend commercial vehicles operations in the state.