ALJAZEERA A Dutch court has thrown out a suit against Shell brought by four widows of activists who were executed by late Nigerian military leader Sani Abacha in 1995 after protests against the company’s exploitation of the oil-rich Niger Delta.…
PUNCH NEWS DOGGED by scandals, the Niger Delta Development Commission is back in the news. In one salvo, the Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, practically declared war on the interventionist agency for its failure to provide the 50 per cent…
PEOPLES GAZETTE Aminu Hassan, the force commander of the Joint Task Force (South-South), Operation Delta Safe, says the fight against oil thieves will continue until the criminals surrender, admitting that they are difficult to dislocate. Mr Hassan said this while…
THE TIDE Bayelsa State Governor, Senator Douye Diri, has called on political actors in the state to play by the rules, especially now that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), has released its timetable for the 2023 general elections. Diri,…
THE GUARDIAN Stakeholders in the Niger Delta region have called for the subsidization of modular/artisanal refinery license by 70 per cent to enable artisanal operators to acquire the licenses. They made the call, yesterday in Abuja at the second stakeholders’…
LEADERSHIP.NG The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has expressed its readiness to collaborate with the Bayelsa state government in accelerating telecommunications infrastructure deployment, digital literacy and skills in the State. The executive vice chairman and chief executive of NCC, Prof. Umar…
VANGUARD NEWS Residents of riverside settlement of Lasukugbene in Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of Bayelsa State have cried out that they have been under ceaseless environmental assault following a crude oil leak from a facility owned by Nigerian Agip…
THE GUARDIAN Chairman of Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission (DESOPADEC), Mr. Michael Diden, escaped being lynched on Sunday by youths in Burutu Council of Delta State. Diden, also chairman, Delta Political Vanguard (DPV), a political group within the…
THE GUARDIAN Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt has granted an order for leave to apply for judicial review compelling the Hydrocarbon Pollution and Remediation Project(HYPREP) to perform the public duty of the cleanup and remediation of Ogoniland in…
THE GUARDIAN “No state is poor in this country; it is this over-dependence on the Federal Government” – Gov. Nyesom Wike of Rivers State. The fundamental flaws that define the recurring ugly decimal of political instability in Nigeria include the dysfunctional…