An estimated N224 billion due to the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) but held back by the immediate past administration has �expired,� President Umaru Yar’Adua has told Senators from the Niger Delta region. This drew flak immediately from the South-South … read more
The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime has said the Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, is crucial to the planned $30m anti-corruption project for Nigeria. In a letter to President Umar Yar�Adua dated … read more
Multi-national oil companies operating in the country have launched a quiet lobby to get the Federal Government to further extend the deadline for ending gas flaring to 2010. The original deadline given to the oil companies was January 1, 2008, … read more
FRESH tension mounted in Rivers State, weekend, following the bulldozing of the �Evil Forest�, a stronghold of Rivers warlord, Ateke Tom, in Okochiri village by the Rivers State Government, preparatory to the building of a health centre by the government … read more
FORMER governor of Edo State, Chief Lucky Igbinedion, on Sunday arrived in Nigeria from overseas. Igbinedion who is presently in Abuja, said he would appear before the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) today. But an official of the EFCC … read more
An estimated N224 billion due to the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) but held back by the immediate past administration has �expired,� President Umaru Yar’Adua has told Senators from the Niger Delta region. This drew flak immediately from the South-South … read more
The Federal Government may have jettisoned the planned military operation to flush out the Niger Delta militants from their dens in the creeks of the region. Findings by Sunday Punch show that the government has opted to continue to use … read more
THE Ijaw Youth Council (IYC) may have succeeded with other Ijaw groups and leaders to get the Rivers warlord, Ateke Tom to ceasefire and also prevail on the Ijaw Youth Leadership Forum (IYLC) to accept the instruction of the Ijaw … read more
THE recent leakage of an affidavit submitted in the lingering divorce litigation between son of former Nigerian President, Dr. Gbenga Obasanjo and his enstranged wife, Mrs. Mojisola Obasanjo, (nee Onabanjo) may soon snowball into startling revelations on how several powerful … read more
The Rivers State Government has cleared the Evil Forest which had served as the operational headquarters of the Niger Delta Vigilante Movement led by Mr. Ateke Tom. The Evil Forest is located in Okochiri in Okrika Local Government Area of … read more