Foundation Empowers 550 Youths In A’Ibom
A non-governmental organisation (NGO), Eket Community Development Foundation in Akwa Ibom, said it had empowered 550 youths in the area on skill acquisition programme from 2009 to March, 2013. The...
View ArticleNGO Introduces Outstanding Farmers Award In N’Delta
A non-governmental Organisation (NGO), Food For All International (FFAI), has introduced an award for outstanding farmers in the Niger Delta. The Head of operations of the organisation, Mr John Kalada...
View Article4,000 Get Relief Materials In C’River
Cross River State Governor Liyel Imoke has provided relief materials to over 4,000 persons displaced in Adadama Community in Abi Local Government Area following the recent attack on the community by...
View ArticleEnvironmentalist Okays Agip’s Shutdown In Bayelsa
An Environmental rights activist, Mr Morris Alagoa, says Agip Oil Company’s suspension of oil production in its onshore facilities in Bayelsa State is a respite to the environment. Agip on March 23...
View ArticleCommunity Tasks Delta Govt On Road Project
Illah community in Delta State has urged the state government to make sure the contractor handling the N386 million road project in the community executed it according to the contract terms, including...
View ArticleBayelsa Threatens To Withdraw Agric Trainees
Bayelsa State Government has threatened to withdraw any of the beneficiaries of its ongoing agricultural training programme at the Songhai International Farms, Porto Novo in the Benin Republic caught...
View ArticlePDP Chieftain Okays Alamieyeseigha’s Pardon
Bayelsa State treasurer of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) , Chief Gbarapre H. Turner, has thrown his weight behind the pardon recently granted former Governor of the state, Chief D.S.P,...
View ArticleDickson Charges LG Chairmen On Security Council …As INC Condemns Killing Of...
Bayelsa State Governor, Hon. Seriake Dickson has directed the newly sworn-in local government chairmen to establish security councils in their domains with first class traditional rulers and competent...
View ArticleC’River Moves To Regulate Tourism Outfits
The Cross River State Government has stressed the need to ensure the fair and transparent regulation of commercial and individual concerns within the Tourism and hospitality industry in the State. The...
View ArticleSenate Leader Sponsors Education Of 400 Students
No fewer than 400 students from the Central Senatorial District of Cross River State have so far benefited from Senator Victor Ndoma-Egba’s Scholarship Scheme which amounts to N60 million. 300...
View ArticleMinister Assures On Utor Bridge Completion
The Minister of Works, Mr Mike Onolememen, said last Thursday that the N4.4 billion Utor Bridge project on Asaba-Ebu-Uromi Road in Delta State would be inaugurated in 2014. The minister gave the...
View ArticleLG Faults 2006 Census Figures
The Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of Bayelsa State last Wednesday faulted the population figure declared for it by the National Population Commission (NPC), saying it was inaccurate. Testifying...
View ArticleJTF Assists Landslide Victims In Bayelsa
The Joint Task Force (JTF) in Niger Delta, Operation Pulo Shield, last Thursday donated relief materials to victims of landslide in Okoloba village in Kolokuma/Okpokuma Local Government Area of...
View ArticleA’Ibom Earmarks N289m For Army Barracks Renovation
A total of N289 million has been approved by AkwaIbom Government for the renovation of dilapidated buildings at Six Infantry Battalion, Nigerian Army, Ibagwa in Abak Local Government Area of the...
View ArticleBayelsa, Firm Sign Pact On Maritime Academy
Bayelsa State government has signed an agreement with a Polish firm, Navimor International Maritime Academy to establish a Maritime Academy in the state. Bayelsa State Deputy Governor, Rear Admiral...
View ArticleBakassi Returnees Reject Relocation Plan
Some Bakassi indigenes said to have been ejected from their Efut Obot Ikot village by Cameroonian authorities in March and now sheltering in St. Mark Primary School, Ikot Eyo in Akpabuyo local...
View ArticleOboh Urges Adoption Of Niger Delta Masterplan
The Niger Delta Regional Development Master Plan if embraced will serve as a compass for holistic development in the region, the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) Managing Director, Dr....
View ArticleBoro’s Remains For Burial At Heroes Park
Forty-five years after he was buried, the remains of late Major Isaac Adaka Boro, were, Saturday, exhumed from the Ikoyi Cemetery, Lagos, to begin his final journey to his ancestral home state,...
View ArticleAgbor Auto Crash Claims Four Lives, Injures Three
Four persons were feared dead while three others were injured in a vehicle accident along the Agbor-Abraka Road in Delta State, recently. The incident reportedly occurred at about 6.30 a.m., involving...
View Article‘NSCDC’ll Not Give Up Fight Against Oil Theft’
The Bayelsa State Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps says it is not giving up on its mandate to combat oil theft and safeguard oil installations in the state. Commandant of the...
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