The council, led by Senator Fred Brume with Chief Gabriel Ofotokun as Secretary, noted at the end of its meeting in Ughelli that the anomalous biases in the control and management of the PTDF have been a major tool of injustice, oppression and neglect in the affairs of the oil industry in the Niger Delta.

The councils in their separate petitions claimed that Anambra South Senatorial zone is littered with uncompleted and abandoned projects, which the contractors have collected full payment for. Officials of the Federal Ministry of Housing and Environment were alleged to have paid deaf ears to the complaints by the various towns.

A senior bank treasurer who spoke on condition of anonymity told Vanguard that the circular is a subtle measure by the apex bank to control daily foreign exchange demand by banks. He said that previously banks could receive foreign exchange bids from customers and submit them in three tranches before the close of bidding on each foreign exchange auction day.

hairman, Board of Trustees, Conference of the Northern Chamber of Commerce, Alhaji Badaru Abubakar Babura, has disclosed that the business communities in the country cannot create jobs because of poor government policies, saying there is need for government to partner with them to survive.

DESPITE a presidential directive to all ministers recently that any of them whose memo was discussed and approved at the Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting must wait and attend the post-FEC media briefing to answer technical questions from newsmen on memos emanating from their respective ministries, eight ministers yesterday shun the weekly FEC briefing.