NIGERIAN TRIBUNE Tunji Idowu is the Deputy Executive Director of the Foundation for Partnership Initiatives in the Niger Delta (PIND), a non-governmental organization that helps farmers and other Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) to increase output and profit in Nigeria’s…
THIS DAY In the last couple of days, oil has become a non-factor in Nigeria’s economic growth strategy. Indeed, oil has become a negative factor as global oil prices spiraled downwards across board. Nigeria is an oil-dependent country and not…
NIGERIAN TRIBUNE The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has announced 87 new confirmed cases of coronavirus in the country. This brings the total number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in the country to 1182, Tribune Online reports. The NCDC made…
SAHARA REPORTERS The Niger Delta Development Commission is currently reeking of a multi-billion naira fraud involving the board and top management members of the agency over the purchase of Personal Protective Equipment and sanitizers to tackle Coronavirus in the nine…
THE GUARDIAN The Presidential Taskforce (PTF) on COVID-19 has received a life insurance cover for frontline workers for a maximum of 5,000 health workers employed to fight against the pandemic. The premium in the sum of N112, 500, 000 for…
NIGERIAN TRIBUNE he Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) says it has recorded 114 new cases of the coronavirus (COVID-19) in the country. In a tweet on Thursday night, the NCDC said that the new cases had taken the total…
NEW TELEGRAPH The National Oil Spills Detection and Response Agency (NOSDRA) has said that it found no oil leaks linked to the massive death of fishes that float and litter the Atlantic coastline across the Niger Delta region. The agency…
THE GUARDIAN As the price of crude oil crashes in the international market due to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), groups in southern Nigeria, especially the Niger Delta, have called for immediate restructuring of the country. The publicity secretary of Pan…
THE GUARDIAN Niger Delta Frontline Coalition (NDFC) has warned that the forensic audit of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) will be a ruse, except President Muhammadu Buhari disbands the Interim Management Committee (IMC). National Coordinator of NDFC, Ofonime Akpanikon,…
SAHARA REPORTERS Nigeria has recorded 108 new Coronavirus cases, bringing the total number of confirmed infections in the country to 981. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control disclosed this in a tweet on Thursday. The new cases are spread across…