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Emma Sunday There was tears and anguish among residents of one of the yards in Lumumba/Okwelle Street in Mile 2 Diobu area of Port Harcourt City local government area of Rivers State when an early morning fire outbreak razed down the building destroying properties worth millions of naira. Our correspondent who visited the scene of the incident reports that the building housing ten rooms apartment and twelve shops fully stocked with goods, was completely razed by the fire which according to residents, started by 4:00am on Friday. Though the cause of the inferno was yet to be ascertained but there…

… as 80 Women test Positive to Benzene in Otuabagi Community By Kelechi Nwaucha Women from communities in the Niger Delta have dragged international oil companies, Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC), Total E&P and Agip Oil Company, before an Environmental Tribunal, sitting in Port Harcourt on Wednesday, August 7, 2024, accusing the multinationals of gross environmental degradation and destruction of their ecosystem. This was as report indicate “serious cases of benzene accumulation” among women living in Otuabagi, the first oil-bearing community in Nigeria, with 80 of those sampled testing positive to the existence of the carcinogen in their blood. The…

By Godwin Chukwumaechi, Port Harcourt Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Samuel Ogbuku, has expressed belief that legal advocacy can play a significant role in highlighting the challenges that bedevil the Niger Delta region and proffering solutions to those challenges. He has thus urged young lawyers to harness their intellectual prowess to drive sustainable development and shape the future of the Niger Delta region. Speaking at the 2024 Moot and Mock Trial Competition for Law Faculties in the region, held at the Nigerian Law School, Port Harcourt, Ogbuku emphasized the critical role of legal education and the…

By Amos Okioma, Yenagoa The Bayelsa State Government has called on the Federal Government to establish a liquified natural gas terminal in the state to optimize economic benefits accruing from the gas sub-sector of the country’s petroleum industry. The state’s deputy governor, Senator Lawrence Ewhrudjakpo, made the call when the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources (Gas), Hon. Ekperikpe Ekpo, paid a courtesy visit to the Government House, Yenagoa, on Wednesday. Senator Ewhrudjakpo, in a statement issued by his Senior Special Assistant on MediaDeputy, Mr Doubara Atasi, also stressed the need for the Federal Government to resume and complete work…

… Hails NCDMB’s strides in Local Content Development Amidst the clamour for good governance and reduction in the cost of living in the country, the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources (Gas), Hon Ekperikpe Ekpo has expressed the Federal Government’s firm determination to advance the nation’s gas resources as the surest pathway to economic prosperity. The minister stated this in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State on Wednesday when he visited the facilities and projects of the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB), where he serves as the co-chair of the Governing Council. He said that Nigeria is endowed with vast natural…

Seven top-flight Nigeria Premier Football League (NPFL) teams and a non-league side, Krusaders, will participate in the Governor Douye Diri pre-season tournament in Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital. Organizers of the tournament, led by Director General of the Prosperity Cup, Mr. Ono Akpe, gave the hint at a press conference held in Yenagoa ahead of the tournament. Chairman of the Central Organizing Committee, Mr. Ono Akpe noted that the vision of the governor, Senator Douye Diri was aimed at strengthening the Bayelsa United squad before the commencement of the season, pointing out that the primary reason for the tournament was…

…. Arrest Trucks Ladened with Stolen Crude in Delta By Godwin Chukwumaechi, Port Harcourt The Nigerian Army, 6 Division, Port Harcourt has announced that its troops uncovered massive dumps, where illegally refined products, totaling over 200, 000 litres, were stored across various locations in Bayelsa and Rivers states. Acting Deputy Director, 6 Division Army Public Relations, Lieutenant Colonel Danjuma Jonah Danjuma, in a statement released in Port Harcourt Thursday, said in Bayelsa State, the discovery was made at Dasaba Creek, where an illegal refining site, an oven and a massive metal reservoir containing products suspected to be stolen crude oil…

Accusation is false, baseless – Commissioner Emma Sunday The Rivers State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has accused Governor Siminalayi Fubara of allegedly sponsoring the attack on it’s party secretariat along Port Harcourt-Aba Road. The Caretaker Committee Chairman of the APC in Rivers State, Chief Tony Okocha made the accusation while briefing Journalists in Port Harcourt on Tuesday on The APC Secretariat was attacked on Monday with protesters destroying the party’s billboards and other properties during the #EndBadGovernance protest in Port Harcourt. Chief Okocha said the protesters after destroying the party’s properties dropped a note informing them that…

By Ehichioya Ezomon In an novel move that many Nigerians have hailed as in the right direction – even as they hold that it doesn’t go far enough – members of the House of Representatives have donated half of their salaries for the next six months – in the first instance – to complement Federal Government’s efforts at cushioning the economic hardship Nigerians undergo, especially since the Bola Tinubu administration in May 2023. Viewed by sceptics as a fry in the pan – until a wholesale cut from the legislators’ homongous allowances that are in the realm of speculations and…

By Amos Odhe A social activist, Christopher Awhawha, says the call to disband Delta State-owned security outfit, ‘Operation Delta Hawk,’ was not in the best interest of the state. Awhawha in a statement on Monday in Warri, Delta State, said, “My attention was drawn to a publication by a certain group, known as Initiative For Social Rights Concerns and Advancement (ISRCA) calling for disbanding of Delta State owned security outfit, ‘Operation Delta Hawk.'” He said, “I consider the suggestion made by the group to disband ‘Operation Delta Hawk’ as misleading and mischievous. The group attributed its demand to disband Operation…