Youth Body Wants Buhari To Confirm NDDC Boss’ Appointment
An appeal has gone to President Muhammadu Buhari to confirm the appointment of the Acting Managing Director of Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) Prof. Nelson Brambiafa. The National President...
View ArticleEdo Assembly Crisis: Protest Rocks Benin Over Reps’ Decision …As Oba ‘Leaves...
Some Edo State residents yesterday carried out what they termed solidarity protest at the Oba Ovboramwen King Square in Benin over the House of Representatives’ call on Governor Godwin Obaseki to issue...
View ArticlePolice Kill Two Suspected Kidnappers, Arrest 15 In Rivers
Two suspected notorious kidnappers, who were terrorising commuters at the Emuoha axis of the East-West Road, have been shot and killed by policemen, while no fewer than 15 kidnap suspects were arrested...
View ArticleMilitants Kill Two Soldiers, Abduct Expatriate In A’Ibom
Some unidentified hoodlums have killed two soldiers and kidnapped an expatriate at the road construction site in Ukanafun Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State. Our correspondent learnt that the...
View ArticleLeaked Audio Tape Was Doctored – Oshiomhole
Member-elect of the Edo State House of Assembly, Seidu Oshiomhole, has been allegedly caught on tape stating how the 15 lawmakers-elect opposed to the inauguration of the Edo Assembly are being...
View ArticleLG Boss Moves To Check Insecurity On Waterways
In his desire to strengthen the security architecture put in place by his government,the Chairman of Degema Local Government Area of Rivers State, Dr Tony Philmoore, has met separately with chiefs...
View ArticleCSOs Condemn Protest In Rivers
The Chairman, Civil Society Organisations (CSOs), Rivers State, Comrade Sotonye George, has condemned the demonstration by some groups that called themselves CSOs in respect of the recent killings in...
View ArticleMonarch Sues For Peace In Egi Land
The Eze Ali Erema Ukwu of Egi Ogba Land, Eze Azubuike Gerogewill III, the paramount ruler of Ancient Erema Town has sued for peace among communities in Egi land. Eze Georgewill, who said this during...
View ArticleImmigration Urges Landlords To Identify Foreigners For Registration
The State Comptroller of Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) in Cross River State, Barrister Okey Ezugwu, has urged landlords with foreigners as tenants in their buildings, to help in ensuring the...
View ArticleControversy As Bayelsa Govt Removes Timi Alaibe’s Campaign Posters In Yenagoa
The Bayelsa State Government have been accused of allegedly ordering the removal of the governorship campaign posters of former Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Chief...
View ArticleUN Expresses Concern Over Nigeria’s High Unemployment Rate
The United Nations Organization has decried the high unemployment rate among Nigerian youths which it said was alarming. The UN stated that a country which allows its youths to be unemployed without...
View ArticleWike Unveils Education Trust Fund For Late Colonel’s Children
Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike has established an Educational Trust Fund to train the four children of Rivers-born, Late Colonel Ken Elemele, who fell in a Boko Haram ambush between Yobe and Borno...
View Article‘Training’ll Remove Rivers Women From Poverty’
The Permanent Secretary, Rivers State Ministry of Women Affairs, Mrs Atosemi Eson Teetito has said that the training organised for women in the state was designed to empower and remove them from the...
View ArticleMan Dies After Falling From Edo High Court Building
The lifeless body of a sexagenarian was yesterday found hanging in an uncompleted lift inside the old building of the Edo State High Court in Benin City, the state capital. The deceased, Moses...
View ArticleDeath Toll In Delta Building Collapse Hits Four
The lifeless bodies of the remaining two persons trapped in the three-storey building that collapsed at Abraka, Ethiope East Local Government Area of Delta State, have been recovered from the rubble....
View ArticleTenant Drags FAAN To Court Over Missing N.9m Compensation
An operator of a restaurant/bar business at car wash centre of Margaret Ekpo International Airport, Calabar, Mr Effanga Offiong Inyang, has dragged his landlord, management of Federal Airport...
View ArticleEx-A-G Wants CRSHA To Check Gov’s Excesses
The governorship candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) in the2019 governorship election in Cross River State, Barrister Eyo Ekpo, has blamed the state House of Assembly for not initiating...
View Article‘No Federal, State, NDDC Project In Bayelsa Oil Community’
The General Chairman, Egbemo-Angalabiri community, Ekeremor Local Government Area, Bayelsa State, Mr Simon Ebikebina, has cried out that there was no single federal, state government and Niger Delta...
View ArticleGroup Wants Deep Seaport Project In Rivers
A group, the Rivers State Investment and Investors Forum has called on the Federal Government to site the proposed deep seaport in Rivers State, saying that the oil and gas-rich state has all it takes...
View ArticleDPR Seals 13 Petrol Stations In A’ Ibom For Under-Dispensing Product
The Department of Petroleum Resources, DPR, in Akwa Ibom State says it has sealed about 13 petrol stations over non-renewal of their licenses and under-dispensing of petroleum products in Eket Local...
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