Wike Deserves Re-Election, Obuah Insists
The Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Rivers State, Chief Felix Obuah says Governor Nyesom Wike deserves to be re-elected for a second term in 2019. He told newsmen in Port Harcourt...
View ArticleAgric Dev: N’Delta Stakeholders List Challenges
Some stakeholders in the Niger Delta region have listed some key challenges facing agriculture in the region. Some of the challenges include, environmental pollution occasioned by oil exploration and...
View ArticleKalabaris Launch Media Group To Redeem Image
A group of media professionals from the three Kalabari-speaking local government areas of Rivers State, yesterday, formally joined in what they referred to as the battle for the soul of the Kalabari...
View ArticleNGO Assists Camerounian Refugees In C’River
The hope of the poverty-stricken and traumatised Cameroonian refugees in Okwangwo, a border community in Boki Local Government Area in Cross River State was renewed when they received relief materials...
View ArticleNDDC Plans Scholarship For Undergraduates
University undergraduates from the Niger Delta region will soon begin to enjoy scholarships from the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), as an extension of its 8-year-old Foreign Post Graduate...
View ArticleDon Rejects Report On Restructuring
Professor Emeritus and former Head of Department, Institute of Geosciences, Rivers State University, Alabo Dagogo Fubara has called on indigenes of the Niger Delta to reject the All Progressives...
View ArticleAssociation Begins Oil, Gas Operations, Soon
A body known as the Association of Surface Tank Oil and Gas Retailers of Nigeria has said that modalities had been put in place to commence full-scale operations in surface tank oil and gas retailing...
View ArticleImmigration Promotes 156 Officers In A’Ibom
The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) has promoted 156 officers in the Akwa Ibom command of the service. Our correspondent reports that the command’s Public Relations Officer, CSI Ibishia Jaja, was...
View ArticleNDDC Dismisses Media Reports On Board Tenure Expiration
The Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) has dismissed as misleading and false, a media report (not The Tide) purporting that the commission has confirmed the expiration of the tenure of its...
View ArticleMultiple Environmental Pollution Raise Health Concerns In N’Delta – Expert
An environmental expert and Neuro-Physiologist in the Department of Animal and Environmental Biology, University of Port Harcourt, Dr. Leelee Zitte says the spate of pollution ongoing in the Niger...
View ArticleRivers Dismisses FG’s Claim On Lassa Fever
The Rivers State Government has dismissed claims by the Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole, Rivers State is amongst the current outbreak of Lassa fever has affected 15 states with 105 laboratory...
View ArticleOkowa Reshuffles Cabinet, Drops Two Commissioners
Delta State Governor, Senator Dr Ifeanyi Okowa has effected a minor cabinet reshuffle relieving two commissioners of their portfolios while reassigning four others. The two commissioners who were...
View ArticleImo’s Amnesty Doesn’t Cover Don Waney’s Gang Members – Wike
The Rivers State Governor, Chief Nyesom Wike has declared that the amnesty granted by the Imo State Governor, Owelle Rochas Okorocha to cultists who killed 23 persons in Omoku, Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni Local...
View ArticleA’Ibom Donates N.2bn For Army Barrack’s Renovation
Akwa Ibom State Governor, Udom Emmanuel has donated N200 million for the renovation of Wellington Bassey Barracks, Ibagwa in Abak Local Government Area of the state. Emmanuel made the donation at the...
View ArticleOgoni Clean-Up: Board Member Sues For Cooperation
A member of the Board of Trustees of Ogoni Clean-up Project, Mr Nnimmo Bassey has urged the affected communities to support government’s efforts towards the project, by avoiding further pollution in...
View ArticleFG Harps On Procurement Plan Procedures Compliance
The Federal Government through the Bureau of Public Procurement (BPP) has warned that it will no longer tolerate any act of lawlessness whereby its ministries, departments and agencies, MDAs, will fail...
View ArticleBayelsa Police Confirm Assassination Of NULGE Chairman
The Bayelsa State Police Command has confirmed the killing of Mr Okaye Igali, the Southern Ijaw branch Chairman of Nigerian Union of Local Government Employees (NULGE) by unidentified assassins. The...
View ArticleNetwork To Establish Industries In LGAs
As part of its contributions towards checking the increasing rural-urban migration in the country, Next Level Global Network has rolled out plans to build industries in the 774 local government areas...
View ArticleHerdsmen Attack Imoke’s Community, Kill One
Itigidi, hometown of former Governor of Cross River State, Sen Liyel Imoke was last Monday in disarray following a clash between the youth of the community and herdsmen. Reports indicate that an All...
View ArticleRSU VC Lauds Wike On Media Awards
The Vice Chancellor of Rivers State University, Port Harcourt, Prof Blessing Didia says the emergence of Governor Nyesom Wike as the Silverbird Man of the Year and The Sun Newspaper Best Performing...
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