VANGUARD Militants in Niger Delta were at loggerheads, yesterday, over the call to sack the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Senator Godswill Akpabio and disbanding of the Interim Management Committee, IMC, for the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, which he…
SAHARA REPORTERS Suspected Niger Delta pirates operating off the Gulf of Guinea have attacked two European flagged ships, abducting 13 sailors in the process. The first hit was made at the port of Cotonou in Benin on Saturday, while the…
PREMIUM TIMES The All Progressive Congress State Chairmen Forum has demanded the removal of the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Godswill Akpabio. They accused the minister of exhibiting an “overbearing behavior”, and called on President Muhammadu Buhari to dismiss him.…
VANGUARD Alhaji Mujahid Asari-Dokubo, 55, one of the founders and former president of the Ijaw Youth Council, IYC and founder of the Niger-Delta Peoples Volunteer Force, NDPVF, is an unabashed Niger Delta activist with his NDPVF being one of the…
PUNCH NEWS The Edo State Governor, Mr Godwin Obaseki, has flayed the incessant cases of oil theft in the Niger Delta, bemoaning the loss of about 22 million barrels of crude in the first six months of this year, estimated…
VANGUARD The Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Godswill Akpabio, on Sunday reiterated the Federal Government’s commitment to repositioning the Niger Delta region to make it attractive to foreign investors. Akpabio, who stated this while receiving the Akwa-Ibom ex-agitators, who paid…
TRIBUNE ONLINE Mr Einstein Oribo, former chairman, the Conference of Nigerian Political Parties (CNPP) in Bayelsa State and one-time Senior Special Assistant (Mobilisation) to incumbent Governor Seriake Dickson, is the national coordinator of None APC Vanguard for David Lyon. In…
RIPPLES NIGERIA The Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, has informed the public that no fewer than 69,282 personnel would be deployed to provide adequate security during the November 16 governorship elections in Kogi and Bayelsa states respectively. Adamu revealed…
THIS DAY We Must Grow What We Eat, Consume What We Produce President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday declared open the 2019 Lagos International Trade Fair (LITF), organised by the Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI), with a call on Nigerians…
VANGUARD NEWS Pan Niger Delta Forum , PANDEF has called on the federal government to make public contractors that handled projects for the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, at the end of its forensic audit of the commission, saying this…