DAILY POST Niger Delta ex-agitators have threatened to return to the creeks if the Federal Government goes ahead to scrap the Presidential Amnesty Programme. Leader of ex-agitators, in Akwa Ibom State, Nico Sintei, who disclosed this on Monday in Uyo,…
The glaring need to develop the Niger Delta region was earlier recognized by the colonial government in Nigeria in 1957, and this translates to over six decades ago. The colonial office in London had then set up the Sir Henry…
THE GUARDIAN The Rivers State Government has awarded contract for the construction of Woji-Aleto-Alesa -Port Harcourt Refinery road to Messrs Rafoul Nigeria Limited. The link road will cost N9.5 billion. The State Commissioner for Information and Communications, Paulinus Nsirim, said approval for…
THE SUN Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has described the Niger Delta region a safe haven for companies to conduct their businesses. Wike also dismissed multinational companies, who use insecurity to justify their refusal to relocate their operational headquarters to…
PREMIUM TIMES Nigeria’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth rate contracted by –6.10 per cent in the second quarter of 2020, a report by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said on Monday. Details of the Nigerian Gross Domestic Product Report…
THIS DAY With last week’s nullification of his election by the tribunal, what’s the fate of Governor Douye Diri of Bayelsa State, asks Onungwe Obe The popular saying that it is not over until it is over appears to be…
DAILY POST Niger Delta Activist Forum (NDAF) has staged a peaceful protest at the Calabar-Itu Road, blocking commercial, private vehicles and trucks from plying the road along the Cross River and Akwa Ibom States axis. The group said the protest…
DAILY POST The Advanced Nigeria Democratic Party, ANDP, the political party on whose petition the Bayelsa State Governorship Election Tribunal sacked Governor Douye Diri, has distanced itself from the election petition. A faction of the party has emerged, saying it…
PUNCH NEWS The Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Godswill Akpabio, has accused the past managements of the Niger Delta Development Commission of failing to utilise about N5tn accrued to the commission in the last 20 years. Akpabio argued that if…
ENERGY MIX REPORT The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) on Wednesday said it would reduce importation of Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) into the country when the 100 million standard cubic feet of gas capacity facility at Oredo flow station in…
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