Available data at the Central Bank (CBN), the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR), and the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), show that Nigeria’s oil export has started to show signs of improvement as it is expected to export 1.98 million barrels per day in September going by orders from oil-importing countries that buys Nigeria’s crude.

According to him, the party had not done anything substantial to make any positive impacts in the zone since it foisted itself on the leadership, adding that his party, Action Congress(AC) would not stand akimbo and watch the ruling party steal people’s mandate like it did in the last election.

According to a victim of the attack who escaped death by the whiskers but sustained gun shot injury, Mr. William Okerentie, an ex-service man, the heavily armed masked youths accosted them near an Ijaw village and immediately opened fire on passengers in the boat before coming on board to ransacked every passenger and dispossess them of all their monies and personal effects.

He said it was regrettable that there was no policy which made it mandatory for health providers to embark on such venture, stating “before the establishment of the laboratories in the various zones, MLSCN would first organise training on how to detect and report reagents that produce false report to the body”

Leader of the Niger Delta Peoples Volunteer Force, Mr. Ateke Tom, raised alarm yesterday evening that an entourage of a militant leader, Mr. Soboma George, which visited his camp was allegedly attacked by two gun boats manned by naval personnel along the Bonny – Port Harcourt sea route.