THE Speaker of Edo State House of Assembly, Mr. Zakawanu Garuba, yesterday, lamented what he described as alleged persistent failure of the Governor Adams Oshiomhole-led state executive to implement resolutions of the House.

Government should declare developmental emergency in the Niger Delta. Let’s face the Niger Delta like they faced Abuja.

ENUGU—THE Enugu State Coordinator of National Poverty Eradication Programme (NAPEP), Mr. Hycienth Ngwu, has commended Governor Sullivan Chime for lifting the ban imposed on the commercial tricycle operators known as “KEKE Napep” from operating in some parts of the state capital.

Speaking to Vanguard, he said, “Even me, I am surprised that they are saying that they recovered a list of backers or sponsors of Camp 5, that is not true, it is all lies, there is nothing like that, they are just saying it to scare some people from making the comments they would want to make about the ongoing operation of the task force”.

Chief Edem Duke, President of the Calabar City Chamber in a press conference, in Calabar, said the recent ceding of 76 oil wells from the state to neighboring Akwa Ibom State has inflicted pain on the state which had been in painful mood over the ceding of Bakassi Peninsula to the Republic of Cameroon .