The Federal Government may sanction Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) if it heeds the call by the Ogoni people in Rivers State, Niger-Delta, for the revocation of the license granted the Anglo-Dutch oil giant to carry out oil exploration activities in Nigeria, following the revelations by the United Nations Environment Programme, UNEP, that the company polluted their land and caused life-threatening health hazards.

EVENTUALLY, the Chief Justice of Nigeria wrote a letter to the President, Court of Appeal on 18/02/2010 attaching the petitions and asking for comments on the allegations made and the President of the Court of Appeal was asked to ensure that further action on the judgment is put on hold.

SINCE last month, fierce-looking soldiers, with armored personnel carriers, APCs, stationed at strategic locations, have been on the alert at the oil –rich Ekpan community in Uvwie Local Government Area of Delta State, following a dusk to dawn curfew slammed on the community by the state government as a result of the uprising and butchery by rival youth groups, which has claimed at least 16 lives.

Although late in the day, the revelations of Major Hamza Al-Mustapha, the once dreaded Chief Security Officer, CSO, to the late maximum dictator, General Sani Abacha, in a Lagos courtroom last week created what some are describing as comic distraction to other pressing national issues. Mustapha’s revelations eclipsed the six-year single term controversy and did same to the new deal reach between the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, and the Federal Government of Nigeria on the minimum wage. Upon further interrogation, Sunday Vanguard came across even more startling revelations regarding the role of Yoruba leaders immediately after the death of Bashorun Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola, the winner of the June 12, 1993, Presidential Election.

WHEN, in 1987, an Italian allegedly shipped in 1,079,000 metric tonnes of toxic waste, which he claimed were residual chemicals and raw materials, to Koko in Warri North Local Government Area of Delta State, he said it was for a proposed fertilizer manufacturing company in Nigeria, but, as the people found out later, the items were killer materials