VANGUARD Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, a few days ago, ruffled some feathers following the suspension of Hadiza Bala-Usman as Managing Director of the Nigerian Ports Authority, NPA, by President Muhammadu Buhari. Amaechi whose Ministry supervises NPA is not happy…
VANGUARD NEWS The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has assured Nigeria that planned rehabilitation of the Port Harcourt refinery would be completed as scheduled in April, 2023. The corporation said the rehabilitation which would cost $1.5 billion would bring the…
PREMIUM TIMES Late President Umar Musa Yar’Adua dreamt of fixing Nigeria’s power and energy sector by 2020. Elected in 2007, Mr Yar’Adua planned to carry out infrastructural and institutional reforms in the sector but died three years into his tenure…
NAIRAMETRICS Nigeria’s states generated a sum of N1.31 trillion internally in 2020, representing a marginal decline compared to N1.33 trillion recorded in 2019, and an increase compared to N1.17 trillion in 2018. The downturn is attributable to reduced state revenue as a result of disruptions caused by…
THIS DAY Some marginal fields’ operators have kicked against the revocation of 11 oil field licences by the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) under the guise that the affected fields had been left fallow, stressing that the action of the…
LEGIT.NG A Nigerian woman, Onem Tyna Miracle, is getting a massive commendation for using the money meant for personal comfort to serve her people. Miracle who is a councillor in Bayelsa state replaced the dangerous bridge in her community with…
THE GUARDIAN As the 30-day ultimatum the Ijaw Youth Council (IYC) gave the presidency to appoint a substantive board for the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) closes, the agency yesterday, sued for calm, saying it was initiating dialogue with the…
THE CABLE In March, the federal executive council (FEC) approved the sum of $1.5 billion for the rehabilitation exercise. The repair, which will be executed by Tecnimont SPA, an Italian company, will be done in three phases of 18, 24…
THE GUARDIAN Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has appealed to those he described as ‘true nationalists,’ who believe in the indivisibility of Nigeria, to rescue the country from disintegration. He gave the charge when members of the South-South Zonal Working…
PUNCH NEWS Rivers State government has approved contract for the construction of Cancer and Cardiovascular Diagnostic and Treatment Centre at the cost of N25.9bn. The centre, which will be sited at Rumuokuta in Obio-Akpor Local Government Area is expected to…