VANGUARD NEWS The Delta State Government must further clear the air on whether or not it is planning to give land to Miyetti Allah or herdsmen. Governor Ifeanyi Okowa has been on record insisting that there is no land in…
NAIRAMETRICS Nigeria has officially written to the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), requesting a higher production quota based on the OPEC+ agreement. Despite previous attempts to effect the same output increase, the Federal Government is quite hopeful that the…
PREMIUM TIMES The Senior Special Adviser to the President on Niger Delta, Ita Enang, has asked the Southern Governors Forum (SGF) and members of the National Assembly to take advantage of the proposed amendment to the Petroleum Industry Act (PIA)…
PM NEWS Chief Edwin Clark, an elder statesman, has written an open letter to President Muhammadu Buhari explaining why his government should stop the proposed naval base project in Kano. Clark said the plan was ill-conceived and one of the…
THE GUARDIAN Nigeria, on October 1, 1960, gained its independence from the British imperialists. On that day, Nigerians were joyfully on the streets, hopeful of a better, productive and prosperous Nigeria. Our founding fathers, in spite of their differences in…
THE GUARDIAN Last Thursday, governors of the Southeast stunned their colleagues from the south when they failed to attend a meeting of the 17 governors hosted by Enugu State governor, Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi. It was not an emergency meeting. The meeting…
DAILY POST Former Nigerian President, Olusegun Obasanjo has reacted to the move by the Federal Government to take fresh loans amid outcries by Nigerians over incessant borrowing by the current administration. Obasanjo, while speaking to Channels Television in South Africa,…
PUNCH The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), has directed that the Nigerian National Petroleum CompanyLimited be incorporated. He also approved the appointment of the Board and Management of the NNPC Limited with Senator Ifeanyi Ararume as Chairman. The Group…
THE SUN President of Ogoni Liberation Initiative, Douglas Fabeke, has described the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP) as a sham. Fabeke spoke at the maiden presentation of a monthly international magazine titled “The Niger Delta Focus”, in Port Harcourt, Rivers State,…
THE SUN The Committee For the Defence of Human Rights (CDHR), has raised fresh alarm over the alarming increase in cases of police extortions in Delta State and called for an urgent measure in bringing the situation under control before…