PUNCH President Muhammadu Buhari has approved a 16-man new board of the Niger Delta Development Commission, with Dr. Pius Odubu from Edo State as the chairman. A statement signed by the Permanent Secretary (General Services Office), office of the Secretary…
DAILY POST The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Chief Timipre Sylva has declared that the President Muhammadu Buhari administration will pursue vigorously the sanitization of the oil sector and prevent losses in crude oil production. Sylva made this position…
US EMBASSY NIGERIA PRESS RELEASE 27/8/2019 Effective worldwide on 29 August, Nigerian citizens will be required to pay a visa issuance fee, or reciprocity fee, for all approved applications for nonimmigrant visas in B, F, H1B, I, L, and R visa classifications. The…
THE LIBERATOR Says Technical Education will end Restiveness in Delta State A Delta born human rights activist, Comrade Sheriff Mulade has appealed to Governor Ifeanyi Okowa to upgrade old Grammar Schools in the riverine communities to technical colleges so as…
PM NEWS Former President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, has said integrity has been brought into the governorship contest of his home state of Bayelsa by entry of the lawyer-turned politician, Chief Anthony George-Ikoli (SAN).…
VANGUARD … East-West Road, Koko/Ogheye/Lekki Road, Eastern ports top demands By Jimitota Onoyume, Assistant News Editor The underdevelopment of communities in the Niger Delta region has been at the root of agitations in the zone. Following the appointment of Chief…
THE NATION A Federal High Court in Abuja has ordered a temporary freezing of accounts and seizure of immovable property belonging to a retired judge and a director with the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC). The judge, identified as Margaret…
THE NATION Seven months after his death, the Will and Last Testament of a billionaire Kalabari high chief, Benson Lulu-Briggs, has been read despite opposition by some family members. The late Lulu-Briggs, chairman of oil exploration and production company Moni…
THE NATION The Federal High Court Abuja has ordered the Minister of Petroleum to grant the renewal of the Oil Mineral Lease 11 to Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria for 20 years. Justice Taiwo Taiwo ruled that renewal would…
THISDAY The national leadership of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Saturday successfully screened former Minister of State, Agriculture and Rural Development, Senator Heineken Lokpobiri and five others for the August 29, governorship primaries in the state. Also vetted by the…
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