VANGUARD A pressure group, the Core Delta Youth, CDY, has said a report by an online platform highlighting the purchase of “microphones” installed for use at the Delta State government house is fake news. CDY coordinator, Mr. Uyero Erarawewho, described…
VANGUARD Minister for Niger Delta Affairs, Sen. Godswill Akpabio has urged Nigerians to stop referring to President Muhammadu Buhari’s appointment of a sole administrator for the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, as ‘illegality’. Senator Akpabio stated this on Friday in…
THIS DAY Governor Ifeanyi Okowa has assured that no project begun by his administration would be left uncompleted. He, therefore, charged the Delta State Oil Producing Area Development Commission (DESOPADEC) to execute projects that would add meaningful value to the…
THE GUARDIAN The United States (U.S.) on Thursday condemned the abduction of hundreds of children by gunmen from Government Science Secondary School, Kankara, Katsina State, on Dec. 11 and urged the government to hold those responsible accountable ” to the…
DAILY POST The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on Thursday recorded 1,145 new infections of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in the country. The NCDC confirmed this on its verified website. One death was also recorded in the country. The…
VANGUARD An Environmentalist, Comrade Alagoa Morris, has lamented the devastating effects of pollution on the environment and danger pose to the fishing occupation of the people of the coastal communities. Morris, who is also the Project Director of Ondewari Health,…
VANGUARD FORMER Federal Commissioner for Information and South South, Chief Edwin Clark has described the Niger Delta region as the most oppressed people in the country. According to him, with the level of marginalization and dehumanization of the zone, despite…
THE GUARDIAN Niger Delta stakeholders have urged oil and gas companies operating in the region to relocate their headquarters to the region to boost its socio-economic development. They argued that if the region was safe to exploit and drill oil…
THE GUARDIAN Following lack of consensus and divergent views among Nigerians on restructuring, former governor of Delta State, Emmanuel Uduaghan, has canvassed ‘administrative restructuring’ of the country for greater development. Uduaghan explained that restructuring meant different things to different people…
VANGUARD Col. Milland Dixon Dikio (rtd), Interim Administrator, Presidential Amnesty Programme, on Monday, reiterated the commitment of the PAP Office to provide quality empowerment packages for beneficiaries of the Presidential Amnesty Programme. This, he says will reduce the ex-agitators’ dependence…