SAHARA REPORTERS A former Director of Finance of the Niger Delta Affairs Ministry, Mr Ayinla Abibu, has been sentenced to one-year imprisonment for embezzling N60m belonging to the government. Hon Justice Olukayode Adeniyi of the Federal Capital Territory High Court,…
SAHARA REPORTERS The Chairman, Nigerians in Diaspora Commission, Abike Dabiri-Erewa, has appealed to the Niger Delta Development Commission to pay the allowances, tuition and other incentives of students on its scholarship scheme in the United Kingdom. She said the students…
PUNCH NEWS LEADER of former warlords in Odidi Federated Community, Warri South-West Local Government Area of Delta State, Don Banky, has called on the President, Major-General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), to revoke the oil mining licence given to Neconde Energy Company…
THIS DAY Early this month, Mr. Mele Kolo Kyari, geologist, crude oil marketer and the 19th Group Managing Director (GMD) of the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) clocked one year in the saddle. Since his appointment in July 2019, Kyari has…
DAILY POST The Federal Government says it has so far spent N15.8 billion on hazard allowances in its teaching hospitals and medical centres across the country. The Minister of Labour and Employment, Sen. Chris Ngige, stated this in Abuja while…
ALJAZIRA A group has petitioned the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), based on the whistleblower policy, demanding a compensation fee of 5% after it gave the corporation reliable information on massive crude oil theft. In a letter of petition addressed…
VANGUARD A coalition of Ijaw groups, on Sunday, attributed the alleged looting of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, to the failure to put in place the Presidential Monitoring Committee, PMC, in accordance with the NDDC Act. The coalition also…
PUNCH NIGERIA The Association of Resident Doctors of the Federal Medical Centre, Asaba, Delta State, has declared a three-day warning strike over the continued shortage of personal protective equipment and non-payment of hazard allowance. The President of the ARD FMC…
NIGERIAN TRIBUNE Nigeria’s tally of confirmed COVID-19 cases on Saturday rose to 40,532 as 555 new infections were announced by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC). The NCDC disclosed this on its verified Twitter handle on Sunday night. “On…
SAHARA REPORTERS The Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Godswill Akpabio, has linked some members of the National Assembly to some contracts awarded by the Niger Delta Development Commission, The PUNCH reports. Akpabio, however, did not state if the lawmakers were…