THISDAY The Minister for the Niger Delta Affairs, Senator Godswill Akpabio, has denied accusing members of the National Assembly of being contractors of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC). Addressing journalists yesterday after a closed- door meeting with Acting Clerk…
PUNCH NEWS The Parliamentary Staff Association of Nigeria has threatened to shut down the Rivers State House of Assembly over accrued allowances owed its members. The association said its members were owed four years’ outfit allowance for 2013, 2014, 2019…
PUNCH NEWS There was jubilation on Saturday on Moscow Road, Port Harcourt, headquarters of the Rivers State Police Command, as officers arrested a most wanted kidnapper, Honest Digbara, popularly called Bobisky. Bobisky was arrested alive in the early hours of…
DAILY TRUST The federal government and the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) have begun the implementation of the integrated landscape management and sustainable food system in the Niger Delta region of the country. Speaking at the inception Workshop…
THIS DAY Chiemelie Ezeobi writes that baring any palliative, the people of Ubulu-Uku, a Delta community, lies on the brink of isolation as the only link road to other communities is at the verge of complete annihilation A tree cannot…
THIS DAY With the negative impact of the Coronavirus pandemic on global economy which had led to an unprecedented decline in the global price of crude oil, cutting the cost of oil production by Nigerian oil companies had become imperative.…
THIS DAY Two contradictory images and news feeds recently competed for this reporter’s attention. The first was a ceremonial outing in the North East displaying rows of ‘repentant’ Boko Haram combatants in neat government uniforms. They were being admitted into…
SAHARA REPORTERS A former Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission has been ordered by a Federal High Court in Lagos to forfeit the sum of N250m to the Nigerian Government. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission disclosed this…
PM NEWS Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike says his administration always set funds aside for any project that it awards. He stated that this is the reason why there would be no abandoned project in the State. Wike gave…
PREMIUM TIMES The Delta state government on Friday announced the reversal of the pay cut for political appointees and civil servants on Grade Level 07 and above. The state announced the downward review of the salaries of these categories of…
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