Minister of Water Resources, Suleiman Adamu, his wife, Hauwa and Minister of Environment, Amina Mohammed, at a reception dinner organised by Association of Consulting Engineers in Nigeria (Acen) for its President, Engr. Suleiman Adamu, on his appointment as the Minister of Water Resources in Abuja last Friday

Motorists in Rivers State
have expressed displeasure on the order issued by the police high command in the country to arrest persons engaged in black market sale of petroleum products.
Recently, the Inspector General of Police, Solomon Aranse, charged the police to arrest those involved in the trade.
However, a cross section of motorists, especially commercial bus and taxi drivers who spoke to The Tide described the development as counterproductive on their business operations.
A taxi driver, Mr Paul Uche, who plys the Rumuokoro/Rumuola axis, while speaking to The Tide,described the clampdown on the black marketers as unreasonable.
According to him, it amounts to chasing shadows instead of substance.
For Juliet Nwafor, a female taxi driver who services the Aba road axis, the black marketers should not be treated as criminals.
She said that government should rather be blamed for not being able to make fuel available to Nigerians.
On the contrary, according to her, the black  marketers should even be commended for making the products available to motorists.
On the accusations that the black marketers were making matters worse, one of the dealers who spoke to The Tide said the traders were only cashing in on government’s ineptitude to make a living for themselves.
She said the high rate of unemployment has made Nigerians to seize any opportunity to make  a living.
However, following the development, The Tide gathered, that the operators of the black market business were not relenting as they now sell the products from their homes.
Further investigations by The Tide indicated that the few filling station that were dispensing the products were not selling at the approved price of N86.50
However, another dimension to the problem is that those with jerry cans are not allowed to buy the products.
But a source at Mobil filling station at Garison Bus stop said those with 10 litre jerry cans are sold the products to enable them power their generators.