DAILY POST About 150 delegates currently undergoing screening exercise of the Ijaw National Congress (INC) election holding in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, have been held hostage by Ijaw youths over suspicion that forces have concluded plans to work against the preferred…
THIS DAY Stakeholder communities of Oil Mining License (OML) 25 in Akuku-Toru Local Government Area of Rivers State and Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) have agreed on the procedures for the re-opening of the oil facility. The stakeholders communities and…
VANGUARD By Osa Amadi FOR three solid days, the world converged in Yenagoa, Bayelsa to pay final respect to a great fisherman, a man of letters, Pa Gabriel Imomotimi Gbaingbain Okara before the mortal body he left behind was committed…
GUARDIAN A report that Nigeria’s four refineries are currently operating at just 5.55 per cent of their combined installed capacity of 445,000 barrels per day means that the refineries are barely producing 24,698 barrels per day, indicating gross under-performance, which…
DAILY TRUST An Abuja-based businessman, Engr. Preye Aganaba, has joined the November 16 governorship race in Bayelsa State. He promised to attract meaningful development to the state. Aganaba, who is running on the platform of APC, yesterday, dedicated his campaign…
VANGUARD In yet another accolade for Governor Godwin Obaseki’s basic education reforms in Edo State, the World Economic Forum (WEF) has applauded the Edo State Basic Education Sector Transformation (Edo-BEST) initiative which has improved learning outcomes among pupils in primary…
The Esther dress by Patience Torlowei, a Nigerian artist, and the first and only piece of couture to join the museum’s permanent collection, was on display last week at an exhibition at The Smithsonian Institute’s National Museum of African Art…
PUNCH Former Niger Delta militants on Wednesday called on the Federal Government to carry out what they called a complete overhaul of the nation’s Amnesty Programme initiated by the administration of late President Umaru Yar’Adua. The Coordinator, National Affairs of…
VANGUARD AKURE– AFENIFERE, the Yoruba Socio- Political group, yesterday, blasted the Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, over his comment that the kidnapping stories in the country were not only exaggerated but also fueled by politics. This came as apex Igbo…
VANGUARD The Federal Government, Tuesday, appointed a former Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, Dr. Thomas John, as Acting Alternate Chairman of the NNPC Governing Board. John is to replace Dr. Ibe Kachikwu, the immediate past…