THISDAY The Director General of Nigerian Hydrological Services Agency (NIHSA), Clement Nze on Monday took a swipe at the state governments and various stakeholders for failing to heed the agency’s flood warnings issued before the onset of flooding season in…
By Prof. Joseph Miebi Ebiware and Dr. Matthew Oruowei Sikpi As citizens of Nigeria from Bayelsa State, we are concerned enough to put out this note to remind both the electorate and the two gubernatorial candidates of their material responsibility…
PUNCH NEWSPAPER President Buhari at the maiden Federal Executive Council meeting of his renewed mandate, approved contracts for roads across Nigeria, worth over N182bn, Presidency has said. According to the information on the Instagram handle of a presidential aide, Buhari…
THE NATION Iwere People’s Congress (IPC) has kicked against plans to transfer supervision of Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) from the Presidency to the Ministry of Niger Delta Affairs. The Itsekiri group, in a statement by its spokesman, Prince Francis…
THE GUARDIAN Spurious overpriced contracts without recourse to due process have been blamed for the over N1 trillion debt profile of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC). Nothing else typifies this more than the N60 billion emergency contracts awarded within…
VANGUARD By Owei Lakemfa ROBERT Gabriel Mugabe was a normal human being. But to the West, he was an enigma. He was born in racist Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) and spoke up against racism and for democracy. That made him…
THE GUARDIAN • Police Assure Of Promising Lead The Bayelsa State Police Command has said it is still on the trail of Mrs. Beauty Siasia’s kidnappers, 60 days after her abduction. Speaking on the update of Mrs. Siasia’s search, the…
THE GUARDIAN Tammy Abraham once again demonstrated why Chelsea manager Frank Lampard has placed his faith in the 21-year-old with a superb hat-trick in a crushing 5-2 defeat of Wolverhampton Wanderers. Wolves were supposed to be celebrating the 130 years…
DAILY TRUST As Nigerians continue to make their presence felt on the global stage, Patience Torlowei and her creation, ‘Esther,’ are soaring in leaps and bounds. If telling only one person about what was happening to her people, in the…
PREMIUM TIMES Timi Alaibe, one of the 21 aspirants in the just concluded governorship primary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Bayelsa State, has gone to court, seeking the cancellation of the exercise. The primary was won by Douye…