“It would appear that the decision of the Federal Government to relocate the University of Petroleum Technology, Effurun, which has been in progress and has received allocation in this year’s budget, is intended as a political missile to spite the Niger Delta”, he said.

Reacting to the latest development, President of Nigeria Bar Association, Mr Rotimi Akeredolu (SAN), told Vanguard in a telephone chat that, “We have different levels of government. We have the local, state and federal levels of government. If the Federal Government believes there is infraction against any aspect of the Constitution it should go to court.”

The Deputy Speaker faulted in all ramification the decision of the Federal Government to site the college in Kaduna and called on the South-South lawmakers in the National Assembly, the State Houses of Assembly in the South-South and the entire people of the region to reject the orchestrated design to perpetually reduce the Niger-Delta people to the status of the hewers of wood and drawers of water in the oil industry.

MRS. Oyindamola Amuka, wife of Vanguard’s publisher, Mr. Sam Amuka, yesterday gave a graphic detail of how she was duped by one Steve Chinua-Ogwu and his accomplices to the tune of N4 million.

A declaration that the failure of the Defendants to establish any adequate monitoring of the human impacts of oil-related pollution – despite the fact that the oil industry in the Niger Delta is operating in a relatively densely populated area characterized by high levels of poverty and vulnerability, is unlawful as it violates the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights.