THE GUARDIAN Friday, June 11, 2021, marked another remarkable day in the annals of Governor Nyesom Wike’s robust and comprehensive efforts to ensure the provision of qualitative healthcare infrastructure for the people of Rivers State, with the foundation laying ceremony…
THE NATION The much-awaited forensic audit report of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) will reach President Muhammadu Buhari’s desk before July 31. Also, a substantive board for the NDDC will soon constituted and inaugurated by the Federal Government. Niger…
THE NATION Interim Administrator, Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP), Col. Milland Dixon Dikio (rtd), has urged members of PAP’s Strategic Communications Committee to change negative public perception about the scheme. Dikio urged the committee consisting of ex-agitators to ensure effective dissemination…
VANGUARD The Defence headquarters on Thursday disclosed that troops of Operation Delta Safe during the week, deactivated several illegal oil refining sites at Ibaa in Emohua LGA and Kumufari and Yalama Towns in Asari-Toru LGA of Rivers State during several…
THE NATION A Bayelsa State High Court in Yenagoa, the state capital, has threatened to jail the State Attorney-General and Commissioner of Justice, Biriyai Sambo (SAN), over his refusal to obey an order of the court directing the state government…
VANGUARD NEWS Ordinarily, the threat letter issued by a self-styled “Fulani Jihadists” group to attack Delta State should not merit more than an idle glance. The faceless group had pasted its threat letter in strategic places in Asaba and Agbor,…
VANGUARD With the increasing number of illegal refineries in the Niger Delta region, the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Timipre Sylva, has revealed why the situation has persisted this long, despite series of arrests by the Nigeria Joint Task…
PREMIUM TIMES Godswill Akpabio, minister of Niger Delta Affairs, said the final report of forensic audit of Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) will be ready by the end of July. Mr Akpabio, who fielded questions from State House correspondents on…
THE SUN Pope Francis has expressed his readiness to collaborate with the Federal Government of Nigeria to end insecurity in the country and sub-Saharan Africa. The Supreme Pontiff gave the assurance while receiving a letter of credence from the Nigerian…
THIS DAY The Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI) has called on Joint Venture (JV) partners of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) to reconcile a $183.07 million discrepancy in their 2019 transport accounts. In its latest report on the…