Group Gives Ayade 14-Day Ultimatum To Free Journalist
Igbo National Council yesterday issued a 14-day ultimatum to Governor Ben Ayade of Cross River State to release detained journalist, Agba Jalingo. The group’s President, Chilos Godsent, at a press...
View ArticlePirates Attack LNG Vessel Off Sao Tome
A gang of pirates terrorising Nigeria’s maritime space has attacked Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG), Lokoja vessel, hours before the New Year day. This was contained in a statement by Dryad...
View ArticleRivers Port Needs Functional Tugboats -Manager
The Port Manager, Rivers Port Complex, Port Harcourt, Engr. Yunusa Ibrahim Anji, says the port needs functional tugboats to enhance its operations in 2020. He also said the port complex needs pilot...
View Article2019: ‘18 Rivers Dockworkers Died Of Poverty’
No fewer than 18 dockworkers working in Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Onne and Rivers Ports died in 2019 due to poverty and hardship. Also, majority of the dockworkers are begging to survive as there...
View ArticleNPA Moves To Pay Rivers Dockworkers Severance Package
No fewer than 500 disengaged dockworkers working in the two ports in Rivers State will soon receive their severance packages from the Nigeria Ports Authority (NPA). This was disclosed by the Trustee,...
View ArticleDPR Fines Filling Station N1m In Bayelsa
The Department of Petroleum Resources in Bayelsa State on Tuesday slammed a fine of N1 million on a defaulting filling station in Yenagoa, De Arizona Oil, for selling petrol under the seal of the...
View ArticleI’ll Ensure Success Of NEW Rivers Vision -Commissioner
Newly sworn-in Rivers State Commissioner for Education, Prof Kaniye Ebeku has reiterated his commitment to the policies and programmes of the Rivers State Governor, Chief Nyesom in ensuring that the...
View ArticleDESOPADEC Boss Tasks Stakeholders On Peace
The Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission (DESOPADEC), has appealed to traditional rulers, youth and community leaders in the various communities that form the oil producing areas of...
View ArticleNLC Flays A’Ibom Govt For Stopping 723 Workers’ Salaries
The Chairman of the Akwa Ibom State chapter of the Nigeria Labour Congress, Sunny James, on Tuesday, criticised the Akwa Ibom State Government for allegedly withholding the salaries of 723 workers...
View ArticleRivers Monarchs Hail RSG On Soku Oil Field
Chairman of the Rivers State Council of Traditional Rulers, King Dandeson Douglas Jaja, has patted the Rivers State Governor, Chief Nyesom Wike on the back over the Federal High Court judgment that...
View ArticleAyade Bars Commissioners From Making ‘Unauthorised’ Posts On Social Media
The Governor of Cross River State, Prof. Ben Ayade, has warned his newly appointed commissioners and other political appointees to desist from making public and policy statements on social media. The...
View ArticleAccount Of Stewardship: Group Drags Bayelsa Council Boss To Court
A Bayelsa-based good governance and transparency group, Patrotism Advancement and Community Orientation Network (PACON), has dragged the Chairman of Ogbia Local Government Council, Hon. Ebinyon Turner...
View ArticlePeace Beckons, As MOSOP Sets Up Transition Council
An end to the leadership crisis rocking the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP) may be in sight, following the setting up for of a Transition Council to pilot the affairs of the...
View ArticleMOSOP’s Factional Leader’s Wife Demands Husband’s Release
Charity, Wife of a factional leader of the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People, Fegalon Nsuke has called on the gederal government to order the release of her husband, who was arrested last...
View ArticleEx-LG Boss Lauds Foundation’s Founder’s Giant Strides
A former local government Chairman in Bayelsa State, Hon. Princhard Marcus has commended the founder of Finger lift Foundation, Mr Gilbert Kiaka, over his humanitarian services to the society and the...
View ArticleKing Amachree Memorial Hall Remodelling: Chief Lauds Jack-Rich
It was a thing of great joy when the Amanyanabo of Kalabari, His Royal Majesty, King T.J.T. Princewill, Amachree x1, broke the news to the Kalabari Chiefs in Council that an illustrious son of...
View ArticleElective Offices: Bill To Bar Old Persons Excites NYCN
The National Youth Council of Nigeria (NYCN), has backed the bill and ongoing debates to bar persons who are 70-years old and above from contesting elective positions in the country. The National...
View ArticleIGP Replaces Delta, Imo CPs
A new Commissioner of Police, Hafiz Inuwa, has taken over from CP Adeyinka Adeleke in the Delta State Police Command. Adeleke is proceeding on a course at the National Institute of Policy and Strategic...
View ArticleObaseki Makes Revelations On APC Crisis, Fights With Oshiomhole
The Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki, has linked the seeming unending political tussle in the state to his administration’s fight against warlords and non-state actors, who hitherto controlled...
View Article2023: Why Power Should Remain In North For Another Four Years -Owie
President Muhammadu Buhari is expected to finish his second term is still three years away, agitations on which zone power should shift to have been on but former Chief Whip of the Senate, Sir Roland...
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