The Managing Director of Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Mr. Emmanuel Agua-riavwodo, yesterday disclosed that the commission, in the past six years of its existence, had received N210 billion with which it had executed the projects now in place. Speaking … read more
Continuous youth restiveness in the Niger Delta region is informed by lack of genuine political will by the succeeding Federal Government in Nigeria to develop the region. In the opinion of a human rights lawyer and public analyst, Mr. Olakunle … read more
Musah Issahaku sits with a bandage on his right leg which hides the tip of a white worm up to one metre (3.3 feet) long wrapped deep under his flesh. One worm has already been removed from the 12-year-old’s other … read more
A FRESH crisis erupted in Plateau State, Sunday night, prompting the imposition, yesterday, of a curfew on Pankshin, the scene of the crisis. Meanwhile, the 14 pro-Dariye legislators in the state House of Assembly, yesterday, launched a fresh legal battle … read more
Angry villagers in Nigeria stormed and seized three Shell oil platforms Wednesday in the volatile Niger Delta, forcing oil production to be shut down at each one, a spokesman for the oil company said. Royal Dutch Shell PLC officials declined … read more
Washington has, at least for now, shunned a request by Abuja for it to bar some public officials, including governors, from entering the United States by December. America says the evidence on the ground is tenuous: It is suspicious of … read more
THE Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP) says it would support any environmental clean up within the framework of subsisting recommendations of both the United Nations (UN) Secretary General’s Fact Finding Team to Ogoni and the UN … read more
UNITED States Consul General in Nigeria, Mr. Brian Browne, and other top American diplomats, yesterday, boycotted the opening ceremony of a three-day capacity building workshop in Warri, Delta State, designed to mainstream women leaders from Rivers, Edo, Bayelsa and Delta … read more
A former Commander of the Economic Community of West African States Cease-Fire Monitoring Group, Brig-Gen. Francis Agyemfra (rtd), on Monday, advised the Federal Government to decisively stamp-out the activities of the Niger Delta militias. He also deplored the rising conflicts … read more
The Department of Petro-leum Resources (DPR) has disclosed that of the 18 petroleum refinery licences issued by the Federal Government four years ago, only about five could be categorised as viable projects. A DPR director, Dr. Tony Chukwueke, explained to … read more