THIS DAY The federal government said yesterday that it would require about $2.3 trillion cumulatively or $150 billion annually to upgrade the poor state of Nigeria’s infrastructure. Speaking at the Business Hallmark Public Policy Forum titled: “Nigeria’s Infrastructure Revolution; Road…
NIGERIAN TRIBUNE The last set of 11 new commissioners in Delta State were on Thursday sworn in by Governor Ifeanyi Okowa with a charge to them to promote unity in their utterances and actions and eschew mutual suspicion. They are…
THE NATION Electricity challenges are more acute in last mile coastal and underserved Niger Delta communities. Inhabitants face environmental backlashes from oil explorations and exploitations activities and attendant effect of destruction of their means of livelihood, with fishing, farming and…
THE GUARDIAN Corporation had no need for experienced new hires, says spokesman Some Niger Delta youths, yesterday, protested against the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) in Abuja, for excluding the region and southerners in its recruitment exercise, especially the 2019…
VANGUARD NEWS The Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, has ordered Deposit Money Banks, DMBs to sell foreign exchange (FX) to customers. CBN disclosed this in a letter to all banks reminding them to set up teller points at designated branches…
THE GUARDIAN Delta State Governor, Ifeanyi Okowa, yesterday, charged his appointees to contribute their quota towards surmounting the socio-economic and development challenges of the state. Okowa gave the charge, while inaugurating newly appointed special advisers (SAs) at the Government House,…
VANGUARD NEWS As the controversy surrounding the provision of just three percent of operator’s expenditure as funding for oil-producing communities in the Petroleum Industry Bill rages, energy experts have blamed state governors in the region and the Niger Delta Development,…
THE GUARDIAN Says FG has injected fresh N20 billion into project Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Godswill Akpabio, yesterday, appealed to protesting Niger Delta youths to be patient with the Federal Government, as the ministry has injected another N20 billion…
THE NEWS Governor Nyesom Wike has reiterated his believe in the unity of Nigeria, vowing that he will not allow anybody to take over the territory of Rivers State in the name of agitations. Wike spoke during the visit of…
THE NATION The Federal Government has urged landlords of private property to start charging their tenants monthly, quarterly or half-year rents, instead of the current practice of charging one, two to three years of advance rents. It noted that in…