NIGERIAN TRIBUNE A total of 91 graduating students of the Niger Delta University (NDU), Wilberforce Island, Bayelsa State, on Saturday bagged first class during the institution’s combined convocation. The Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Samuel Edoumiekumo, disclosed this at the 5th combined convocation…
THE NATION The Delta State government has solicited the support of Petroleum Tanker Drivers (PTD), over the continued indiscriminate parking along the Ekpan axis of the NPA Expressway. Commissioner for Oil and Gas, Prince Emmanuel Ambgaduba and his transport counterpart,…
SAHARA REPORTERS Fire on Friday gutted the popular Bayelsa State wholesale market known as Swali-Market in Yenagoa, the state capital, destroying items worth several millions of naira in the process. The cause of the fire is not yet known but…
LEGIT NEWS NIGERIA Following what it described as dissatisfaction with the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Akwa Ibom state says it has withdrawn from the re-run election scheduled for Saturday. This was disclosed in…
THE GUARDIAN Market systems development approach enabled by Market Development in Niger Delta (MADE) helped to improve the income and livelihoods of smallholder farmers and entrepreneurs in the Niger Delta region. Advocacy, External and Public Sector Engagement Manager of MADE,…
THE GUARDIAN Acting Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Dr. Joi Nunieh, yesterday asked its contractors and consultants to present themselves for verification and documentation, insisting that those that fail to do should be ready to forfeit…
THE GUARDIAN United State President Donald Trump is planning to place travel restrictions to Nigeria and other six African and Asian countries. According to administration officials, the Trump government plans to add seven countries to a group of nations subject…
DAILY POST The Reformed Niger Delta Avengers, RNDA, has condemned the decision of the Pan Niger Delta Elders’ Forum (PANDEF) to stop all forms of negotiation with the Federal Government on behalf of the Niger Delta region. RNDA described PANDEF’s…
RIPPLES NIGERIA The World Bank forecasts that the next three years will prove gloomy for Nigeria as growth in the real Gross Domestic Product (GDP) will stall at 2.1% for 2020, 2021 and 2022. The Washington-headquartered institution, in its January…
THE SUN NEWS THE sad story of the utter neglect of the natural resources Nigeria has in abundance but prefers its foreign, processed derivative is often told. For instance, back in the 1950s and 1960sthe country was a leader in…