THE GUARDIAN The Accountant General of the Federation, Ahmed Idris, on Tuesday, said the £4.2 million Ibori loot recently received from the United Kingdom government has been given to Delta State. Idris, said this when he appeared before the House…
THIS DAY Nigeria’s economy may suffer a serious setback if the Ijaw Youths Council (IYC) Worldwide carries out its threat to shutdown oil production in the Niger Delta region from today to protest the refusal of the Federal Government to…
NIGERIAN TRIBUNE The president of Ijaw Youth Council (IYC) worldwide, Deacon Peter Igbifa, has been kidnapped by gunmen on Tuesday along Port Harcourt International airport road. It was gathered that the modus operandi of his abductors were akin to that…
THIS DAY Minister of State, Petroleum Resources, Mr. Timipre Sylva, has stated that the federal government will continue to ramp up its current domestic gas expansion drive as well as its monetisation programme to increase the country’s supply of the…
PUNCH NEWS The Governor of Delta State, Ifeanyi Okowa, has reacted to the statement by the Presidency which faulted the ban on open grazing issued by governors of the southern region. The Presidency had described the ban and other resolutions…
THE GUARDIAN President Muhammadu Buhari, yesterday, expressed a strong resolve to address the conflicts of herders and farmers permanently, but not without chiding the Southern Governors’ Forum for their recent ban on open grazing, which he described as an act…
THE GUARDIAN Rivers State Government will unveil new projects to commemorate the second anniversary of the second tenure of Governor Nyesom Wike on the sidelines of May 29. Some of the legacy projects are the Cassava Flour Processing Plant, Oyigbo,…
THE NATION At the best of time, Nigeria has never been an easy country to govern since the 1914 amalgamation of the northern and southern parts of the country. A very prominent northern leader in his lifetime called this 1914…
THE GUARDIAN Civil society groups in Nigeria, yesterday, urged the Federal Government to compel Shell to clean up the pollution its extractive activities have created in the Niger Delta, warning that the company’s plans to move offshore was to evade…
VANGUARD Delta Governor Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa has said that for Nigeria to truly develop as a nation, there must be a partnership between government and the people, predicated on equity, fairness and justice. The governor stated this at a State…