Some youth groups across the Niger Delta region have endorsed the Niger Delta Development Commission’s (NDDC) Holistic Opportunity Projects of Engagement (HOPE). This was done during a robust engagement between Project HOPE handlers and all youth bodies in the Niger…
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…
A Niger Delta activist and Programme Coordinator of Social and Economic Justice Advocacy, Comrade Jerome-Mario Utomi, has lauded the “rancor-free relationship” between the present Barrister Chedu Ebie-led governing board of the Niger Delta Development Commission and the Samuel Oguku-led management…
ASABA — Some leaders and stakeholders of the South-South yesterday berated former presidential aide, Dr Usman Bugaje, over his remarks that the North owned 78 per cent of crude oil in Nigeria. Dr. Bugaje in a recent interview with Vanguard, contended…
The Foundation for Partnership Initiative in the Niger Delta had called on stakeholders in the Niger Delta of Ondo State to put in place machinery to arrest youth restiveness and promote peace in the area. In achieving this, the organisation…
A social activist and president of the Niger Delta Youth Council, Comrade Bene Youkore Mamamu, on Wednesday dispatched an open letter to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, seeking the establishment of a Federal Polytechnic in Ogbe-Ijoh, Warri South-West Local Government Area…
ljaw Progressive Union of Aborigines has called on the federal government to urgently reactivate the ports in the Niger Delta area, including Warri, Sapele, Burutu and Calabar Ports. Their submissions are contained in a letter signed by Ikhide Ehighelua of…
European Union (EU) has trained 35 journalists from Bayelsa, Delta and Rivers on a community-based approach to curbing criminality and violence in the Niger Delta region.The training was through a Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) Search for Common Ground, (SFCG).The country director…
The upward trend in oil and gas exploration activities persisted in February as the rig count, an index of measuring upstream activities, rose year-on-year, YoY, by 23 per cent to 16, in February 2024, from 11 in the corresponding period of…