By SIMON EBEGBULEM FORMER Senate chief whip and leader of the Action Congress (AC) in Edo State, Senator Rowland Owie, has hailed the South South governors for pulling out of the Federal Government amnesty programme, saying that the Federal Government had exhibited “unseriousness” in solving the Niger Delta problem by its decision to go ahead […]

By JIMITOTA ONOYUME RIVERS State government has ordered the temporary re-opening of the Nigerian Liquefied Natural Gas (NLNG) jetties at the Eastern Bye-Pass, Port Harcourt and Bonny Island, closed a week ago. The state government’s position came after a closed door meeting between the management of NLNG, led by the chairman, Chief Osoboye LongJohn and […]

The absence of a definite plan to gainfully engage the militants and for the development of the region had made leaders of the region to be skeptical about the sincerity of the deal, and fearing that the development could degenerate to something much worse, the religious leaders had decided to intervene.

In a statement signed by its chairman,Chief Patrick Bigha, made available to Saturday Vanguard in Benin City , it alleged that some youths in the state had been recruited to carry out the mission and that some of the victims were being threatened through phone calls and text messages.

National Planning Minister, Dr. Shamsudeen Usman who made the remark at the Civic Centre, Victoria Island venue of a Special Breakfast Meeting hosted by Business Day, declared, “Lagos State has set the example of a kind of action that will take Nigeria into improving the overall competitiveness in the country”.