PUNCH NEWS An Ijaw community in Ovia South Local Government Area of Edo State, Inikorogha, is to be connected to electricity supply for the first time since its existence. Incidentally, Ovia LG is host to Okomu Oil Palm Company, a…
THE SUN Ex-agitators under the Third Phase Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP) have called on President Muhammadu Buhari to confirm the appointment of Col Milland Dixon Dikio (retd) as the substantive coordinator of PAP. Rising from their emergency meeting over the…
PREMIUM TIMES At least N15.3 billion paid to contractors to execute some high priority projects for the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) cannot be accounted for, a new report by the Civil Society Coalition on Audit in Nigeria (CSCAN) has…
THIS DAY The House of Representatives has urged the federal government to mobilize security personnel to dislodge the alleged invasion of Obiaruku communities in Delta State by suspected herdsmen and intensify efforts at ensuring that peace is restored to the…
PUNCH NEWS The Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Abdulrasheed Bawa, on Thursday, said Nigerians will know the identities of terrorism financiers in the country at the right time. He spoke as a guest on Channels Television’s ‘Politics…
THE SUN South-South Elders Progressive Forum (SSEPF) has declared member representing Ekeremor Constituency 2 in the Bayelsa State House of Assembly, Wilson Dauyegha, an enemy of the Niger Delta. The elders said recent comments by the lawmaker urging President Muhammadu Buhari…
THE PUNCH The Federal Executive Council presided over by the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) has approved ₦38.4 billion for the completion of road projects in five states. The road projects which were inherited from past administrations are located…
THIS DAY The National Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof Mahmood Yakubu, yesterday, described as historic, a recent bye-election for Isoko South 1 State Constituency area of Delta State, using a new technology, the Bimodal Voter Accreditation…
VANGUARD NEWS Delta State Government on Tuesday announced that it had revoked the multi-million naira contract for the construction of Asaba/Oko-Amakom/Oko-Obiokpu/Oko-Anala Road over poor performance. The road contract was awarded in 2018, transverses Oko communities in Oshimili South Local Government…
PREMIUM TIMES When Inibe Alupe graduated from Niger Delta University in 2008, he looked forward to a job in an office after undergoing the one-year compulsory national youth service. Over 12 years after, Mr Alupe still has no white-collar job.…