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Vanguard (Lagos)At a Stakeholders' Forum, July 20, organized by the Delta State Government in Asaba to sensitize the people on the National Gas Master Plan, the participants and representatives of host communities were agitated by the issue of ownership and what the host communities and indigenes stand to gain by allowing the Federal Government and multinational companies to exploit gas in the state.
Lagos - THISDAY has learnt that the Officer-in-Charge (OIC) of Atlas Cove jetty, Lagos, Navy Commander Kolawole Aweh, who was killed by militants, complained to naval authorities about the security lapses at the facility shortly before it was attacked on the night of July 12.
The Federal Government's decision to reverse the upgrading of Petroleum Training Institute (PTI) Effurun, near Warri, to Federal University of Petroleum Resources (FUPRE) and relocate it to Kaduna where an existing National College of Petroleum Studies will be transformed to an institution of higher learning (presumably university) has incurred the anger and wrath of Niger Delta people.
At a Stakeholders' Forum, July 20, organized by the Delta State Government in Asaba to sensitize the people on the National Gas Master Plan, the participants and representatives of host communities were agitated by the issue of ownership and what the host communities and indigenes stand to gain by allowing the Federal Government and multinational companies to exploit gas in the state.
Vanguard (Lagos)Awka - A youth group, Southern Youths Alliance (SYA) has called on Vice President Goodluck Jonathan to resign from office for what it described as his failure to bring peace to the troubled Niger Delta region.
Coordinator of the group, Mr. Nnonyelu Offoma in a statement in Awka, Anambra state yesterday, said it should be borne in mind that the Vice President was chosen for the office because it was expected that he would use the position to resolve the crisis in the region.
Awka - A youth group, Southern Youths Alliance (SYA) has called on Vice President Goodluck Jonathan to resign from office for what it described as his failure to bring peace to the troubled Niger Delta region.
Coordinator of the group, Mr. Nnonyelu Offoma in a statement in Awka, Anambra state yesterday, said it should be borne in mind that the Vice President was chosen for the office because it was expected that he would use the position to resolve the crisis in the region.
Awka — A youth group, Southern Youths Alliance (SYA) has called on Vice President Goodluck Jonathan to resign from office for what it described as his failure to bring peace to the troubled Niger Delta region.
Coordinator of the group, Mr. Nnonyelu Offoma in a statement in Awka, Anambra state yesterday, said it should be borne in mind that the Vice President was chosen for the office because it was expected that he would use the position to resolve the crisis in the region.
Daily Independent (Lagos)Lagos - Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, no doubt is one academic giant that has, according to informed opinion, played an active role in Nigeria's political history. This was evident in his 1965 unauthorised broadcast calling for the cancellation of the rigged Western Nigeria Regional elections following his brief seizure of the Western Nigeria Broadcasting Service (WNBS) studio.
This Day (Lagos)Lagos - From the tight corner of the oil esplanade where I sat, I saw a huge number of people impossible to count: men and women, children, the sick, traditional rulers dressed in different traditional attires, politicians, diplomats, journalists, native doctors, fiery-fighting militants, among others, all anxiously waiting for the great event to commence.
Abuja - The announcement of the reversal of the upgrade of the Petroleum Training Institute (PTI), Effurun, Delta State, to a University of Petroleum Technology has come under attack by members of the House of Representatives from the South-South zone, calling for the sack of the Minister of Petroleum Resources, Alhaji Rilwanu Lukman.