EQUALLY interesting is the fact that NNPC is to be unbundled into three companies – National Oil Company, National Petroleum Assets Management Corporation and National Gas Company.

ON July 4, 1776, thirteen British colonies made a Declaration of Independence that established the United States of America as a free and democratic nation.

I READ with disappointment the position of my brother, Hon. Chudi Offodile over the situation of things in Awka vis-à-vis the Government of Mr. Peter Obi. It is in bad taste when some of our people deliberately chose to distort information. Is it a case of short sightedness or plain mischief?

BEFORE me on my table as I am writing this short essay is a couple of media reports on the signing on July 4 , 2012, of a Memorandum of Understanding, MOU, between the Ministry of Power and Daewoo Construction and Electrical on ways Daewoo could help generate 10,000MW in Nigeria, with the South Korean engineering giant taking up 20 per cent equity in new plants.

WHERE does somebody begin this story – the story of the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, and the National Environmental Standard Regulatory Agency, NESREA, which festered for a time before medications became expedient?

I WAS driving in my private car along Nnebisi Road, Asaba and got to the Federal Medical Centre Roundabout where there was the ubiquitous police checkpoint in those dark old days.

THE recent re-opening of the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, depot atAba,AbiaState is a landmark achievement and welcome development, especially for the residents of the commercial city ofAba and its environs who have suffered for long due to its closure some years ago as result of insecurity, bunkering and pipeline vandalism.

BEFORE now, poverty, illiteracy and high rate of criminal activities ranging from militancy, piracy, armed robbery, oil pipeline vandalism and incessant attack on oil pipeline and platforms were the order of the day in the Niger Delta region.

YESTERDAY, the Governor of Anambra State, Mr. Peter Obi was 51, but he loathes celebrations, especially when they have epicurean dimension. He would rather preach to you on the futility of presenting to him a gold wrist watch worth millions of Naira when such an amount would equally buy some computers that when donated to schools, will help in moulding the young ones.

OUR attention has been drawn to page 42 of your publication, Vanguard, of Thursday July 12, 2012 on the above subject matter. We wish to assure all Nigerians including PHCN workers that the PHCN Privatisation faces no threat from PHCN workers. The transaction is very much on course as the privatisation of the Successor Companies of PHCN holds great promise for sustainable economic growth and development in our country.