VANGUARD By Owei Lakemfa Many Nigerians want to leave. That is why a citizen would gather a lot of money and pay a human trafficker to be taken through the horrors of the desert with the possibility of dying of…
RIPPLES NIGERIA The Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) says it has inaugurated a 50-member committee to audit and document projects and contracts awarded in nine Niger Delta states. Dr Joi Nunieh, Acting Managing Director of NDDC, inaugurated the verification committee…
SAHARA REPORTERS Former leaders of militants groups in the Niger Delta have written to President Muhammadu Buhari over the need for the completion of the East-West road project and an increase in the funding of the Presidential Amnesty Programme in…
THE GUARDIAN The Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) says it has inaugurated a 50-member committee to audit and document projects and contracts awarded in nine Niger Delta states. Dr Joi Nunieh, Acting Managing Director of NDDC, inaugurated the verification committee…
PUNCH NEWS The Bayelsa State Government has appealed the December 26, 2019 judgment of the Federal High Court in Abuja, which revoked its ownership of Soku oil wells and gave them to neighbouring Rivers State. A statement on Sunday quoted…
RIPPLES NEWS The Nigerian Army has lost its integrity due to the unprofessional conducts of a few officers who aided elections rigging in the country, Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has said. The governor, however, praised the military for preserving…
PREMIUM TIMES Former President Goodluck Jonathan has urged Niger Delta youth to shun acts of violence and embrace peace to ease the execution of projects that would ensure the development of the region. Mr Jonathan gave the advice when officials…
THISDAY By Eddy Odivwri In the Beginning… After the prolonged agitation of the people of the Niger Delta and the accusation against the federal government of prolonged neglect, marginalisation and unfair treatment of the region which is the economic nucleus…
VANGUARD By Pius Teke Akwa Ibom State Governor Udom Emmanuel kicked off his second term with a promise to take development beyond urban centres to the rural areas where the bulk of the population resides. And for the first time…
VANGUARD By Owei Lakemfa DIANA Ross, The Supremes and The Temptations had a 1968 hit song titled ‘The Impossible Dream.’ In it, they sang: “To dream the impossible dream To fight the unbeatable foe To bear with unbearable sorrow To…