PUNCH NEWS Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, has said that an efficient civil service is vital for national development and governance. Osinbajo stated this on Monday at the commissioning of the new civil service secretariat complex in Asaba, Delta State…
THE SUN The Bayelsa State Government has made good its promise to enforce its anti-open grazing to the letter with the arrest of some defaulters over the weekend. This is even as it has read a riot act to cattle…
PREMIUM TIMES Gunmen, suspected to be pirates, in the early hours of Sunday, attacked two oil installations, killing three and abducting seven oil workers in Bayelsa State, Nigeria’s South-south. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) learnt that the pirates ambushed…
PUNCH NEWS The World Bank says the Nigerian government’s exchange rate management policies are discouraging investments and fuelling inflation in the country The bank disclosed this in the November edition of its Nigeria Development Update. While highlighting the role of…
PUNCH NEWS Economic and financial experts have warned the Federal Government that Nigeria risks losing key national assets to China in the event that it defaults in paying back loans obtained from China which is currently put at $3.48bn. They…
THE WILL The Federal Government appears set to implement the recommendation of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on the removal of the subsidy on petrol after many years of indecision occasioned by absolute lack of the political will to take…
PREMIUM TIMES A Niger Delta Environmental Advocacy group, on Friday, commenced training of hundreds of fishers on coastal environmental monitoring and advocacy, in Yenagoa, Bayelsa capital. The capacity building programme is coming amidst ongoing oil and gas leaks at Aiteo’s…
BLUEPRINT Former President Goodluck Jonathan has said he signed the Nigerian Oil and Gas Industry Development Act in 2010 to ensure that at least 80 per cent of the needs of the nation’s oil industry were produced locally. Jonathan stated…
VANGUARD NEWS Residents of 15 communities in Nembe coastal area of Bayelsa state have cried out that they were finding it difficult to breathe and were dying of hunger following a major oil spill at the Aiteo’s OML29 Well 1…
PUNCH NEWS The Presidential Amnesty Programme and the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation have resolved to work together in tackling pipeline insecurity, unemployment to ensure peace in the Niger Delta region. The agreement was reached when PAP’s Interim Administrator, Col. Milland…