BUSSINESS DAY Some food traders attempt to pull the plug on supplies to their largest market came unstuck as it fell on the wrong side of basic economics. By blocking food supplies headed for some of the largest markets in Nigeria, such…
THE GUARDIAN Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is becoming increasingly relevant as a developmental tool with a phenomenal increase in the number of business organisations’ interventions in their host communities in recent times. Described in a broad term as a company’s…
THIS DAY A Niger Delta group and civil society organisation, the Niger Delta Coalition for Justice and Equity (NDCJE), has called on President Muhammadu Buhari, to appoint a Niger-Delta/South-south indigene as the director-general of National Space Research and Development Agency…
THE NATION The Interim Administrator, Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP) has said that delegates of the programme will henceforth be trained to dominate the maritime sector, agriculture and other areas of comparative advantage in the Niger Delta region. Dikio said it…
THE NATION The House of Representatives has began the process of reforming and repositioning the Niger Delta Development commission (NDDC). The bill seeks to provide minimum qualification for those to be appointed into management position within the commission and proscribe…
VANGUARD PAN Niger-Delta Forum, PANDEF, umbrella body of monarchs, leaders, stakeholders of the coastal states of Niger Delta, has thrown down the gauntlet at the Federal Government to provide a new beginning for the country through restructuring for peace, security…
PREMIUM TIMES A bill seeking to ban open grazing and regulate the business of livestock breeding and marketing in Bayelsa State, will be passed into law on Wednesday. Tonye Isenah, Chairman of the House of Assembly Joint Committee on Agriculture…
THE PUNCH A former Kano State Governor, Rabiu Kwankwaso, has called on the Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, to prepare for national assignment after completing his second term in 2023. Kwankwaso said this when he inaugurated the Rumuogba flyover in…
THE GUARDIAN January 29, 2021 will remain memorable to the oil-rich Niger Delta communities because that was the day the Appeal Court in The Hague, Netherlands, delivered a groundbreaking judgment on three separate lawsuits brought by four Nigerian farmers over…
NAIRAMETRICS The National Primary Health Care Development Agency has announced that the expected COVAX Astrazeneca/Oxford vaccines have arrived in Nigeria. The agency disclosed this in a social media statement on Tuesday after the first batch landed at the Nnamdi Azikiwe…