Since the tenure of the elected local government chairmen and councillors in Bayelsa State expired in early 2022, the caretaker committees have been running the affairs of the eight local government areas and 105 wards in the state. The Bayelsa…
Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, has assured the state chapter of the Actors Guild of Nigeria and Nollywood practitioners that Precious Ofurum, a Rivers indigene who was involved in a boat mishap recently in Asaba, Delta State, will receive deserving…
The Rivers State Executive Council has given approval to the State Government to spend the sum of N6.7 billion for the reconstruction of the 5-kilometre long Okania-Ogbogoro Road in Obio/Akpor Local Government Area. The approval was given at the Council’s…
Residents along Epie Creek in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State capital, have cried out to the state government to take appropriate steps in dredging the surrounding creeks and canals to avert imminent flooding as rain sets in. The residents said the state…
The Nigerian Airforce said on Sunday that air strikes by its Air Component of Operation Delta Safe against oil thieves in the Niger Delta, at the weekend resulted in the destruction of seven (7) illegal refinery sites and four boats…
A Niger Delta group, Centre for Peare and Environmental Justice, CEPEJ has called on Nigerians to be patient with President Bola Tinubu over the hardships currently being faced in the country. In a statement yesterday in Abuja, the National Coordinator…
The Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) has announced its Foreign Post Graduate Scholarship Programme for applicants who hail from the Niger-Delta region of Nigeria, for the 2024/2025 session. The NDDC disclosed in a statement on its website that the scholarship is aimed…
NIGERIA’S oil sector is in urgent need of salvaging. The drop in crude oil production from 1.32 million barrels per day in February to 1.23mbpd in March, per OPEC, means that output plunged by 91,000bpd. This translates to a loss…
The Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission (NUPRC) on Monday, said the nation’s oil and gas reserves has risen to 37.50 billion barrels as at January 2024, as against 37.046 billion it announced in May 2022. During a press conference in Abuja,…
Chairmen and vice chairmen of the eight local government areas of Bayelsa State elected during the April 6 Bayelsa Local Government Areas elections have received certificates of return from the Bayelsa State Independent Electoral Commission (BYSIEC). The commission, at the end…