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By Young E. Freeborn, Warri The Delta State governor, Rt Hon. Sheriff Oborevwori has congratulated his Abia State counterpart, Dr Alex Otti, on his 59th birthday anniversary. Governor Oborevwori, in a statement by his chief press secretary, Sir Festus Ahon, in Asaba on Sunday February 18, 2024, commended the Abia State governor for his audacious drive in repositioning Aba as the commercial hub of the state. The Delta State governor described Governor Otti as an accomplished professional, indefatigable administrator and promise keeper, and extolled him for his unrelenting patriotic service to the state and the nation at large. He stated…

By Mandy Tina Some members of the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association (IPMAN) in Rivers State, have blamed the recent scarcity of premium motor spirit (PMS) experienced in Port Harcourt to lack of distribution by NNPC In an interview with our correspondent, one of the marketers, Dr. Joseph Obele, said for the past two weeks, NNPC had not supplied PMS in the state, adding that marketers are buying from any available source. Dr Obele said there is a gap between demand and supply of PMS. “Nigerians had earlier noticed long queues in some filling stations in Lagos on Monday 12, February…

… Urges Opolo, Okutukutu Communities to Sheath Swords By Amos Okioma, Yenagoa The Bayelsa State Government says its attention has been drawn to a recent attack on Opolo community, allegedly carried out by some individuals from neighbouring Okutukutu community, which had resulted in some casualties. The state’s deputy governor, Senator Lawrence Ewhrudjakpo, in a statement issued by his media aide, Mr Doubara Atasi, on Monday, condemned the attack and directed relevant security agencies to fish out the perpetrators for prosecution. Senator Ewhrudjakpo warned that the Douye Diri administration would not condone a situation where individuals or communities resort to violence…

By Young E. Freeborn, Warri Former executive director, Projects (EDP) of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Olorogun Dr. Samuel Adjogbe recently led other personalities and political leaders across Delta State to join the Otota’Rode of Evwreni Kingdom, High Chief (Hon.) Felix Ayovwe, at the funeral of his late mother, Mama Blacky Ikrechero Ayovwe. Mama Blacky Ikrechero Ayovwe, nee Ubiri, was aged 102 The event which was held on Saturday 17 February, 2024 at Evwreni town in Ughelli North Local Government Area of Delta State was also attended by community leaders and politicians including members of the Samuel Adjogbe Foundation…

By Amos Odhe There is rising tension among officers of the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS) following the alleged plot by the outgoing Comptroller General Caroline Wuraola Adepoju to install her alleged preferred successor, an officer promoted to comptroller in 2022 and to ACG in 2023 “without interview,” while retiring seniors officers at the expiration of her tenure on February 28, 2024. Adepoju who allegedly was to have retired on the 31st May 2023, allegedly got two extensions and will be retiring on the 28th February 2024. The succession plot, according to sources at the NIS headquarters, is allegedly backed by…

By Amos Odhe, Yenagoa Former spokesman of the Ijaw Youth Council (IYC), Comrade Ebilade Ekerefe has described as distasteful and shameful calls by some Urhobo indigenes and ex-agitators for the sack of the Interim Administrator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP), retired Major General Barry Ndiomu. According to him, their call over allegations of being a “work tool of the past administration” is petty and filled with ethnic bias. Ekerefe who stated this on Thursday while responding to comments by one Eshanekpe Israel aka Akpodoro and some ex-agitators of Urhobo origin, insisted that the call is myopic and lacks proper…

By Mandy Tina TotalEnergies Nigeria limited says it has reached zero routine flaring in all its operations across Nigeria, becoming the first EP company to do so. Announcing the feat on Thursday 15 February, 2024, to newsmen in Port Harcourt, after an inspection tour of OML100, the managing director, TotalEnergies Nigeria, Matthieu Bouyer, said the company’s vision has been more energy less emissions. Bouyer explained that Total is the only company operating in the value chain, noting that the company had three hundred (300) to three hundred and fifty (350) kSm3 per day routine flaring, but has been reduced to…

By Amos Odhe, Yenagoa In keeping with Nigeria’s leadership role in the development of local content in Africa, the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) has concluded a two-day Local Content development experience-sharing session with a delegation from Mozambique’s national oil company, Empresa Nacional de Hidrocarbonetos (ENH). The engagement was held on the sidelines of the 8th Sub-Saharan Africa International Petroleum Exhibition & Conference, in Lagos. NCDMB’s delegation was led by the executive secretary, Engr. Felix Omatsola Ogbe, while Mozambique’s team was led by the chairman of Empresa Nacional de Hidrocarbonetos, Mr. Estevao Rafeal Pale. The experience-sharing session was…

By Young E. Freeborn, Warri Members of St. Mark’s Anglican Church, Unenurhie in Ughelli North Local Government Area of Delta State and the family of Rev. Canon Austin E. Onoyasakpo have invited parishioners in the Ughelli Diocese and beyond to his Collation thanksgiving as a canon in the Anglican Communion. According to a statement made available to our reporter by the celebrant, the thanksgiving service is scheduled to hold on Sunday 25th February, 2024 at St. Mark’s Anglican Church, Unenurhie. He further called on all to join him and his family to celebrate the thanksgiving service together in love and…

By Amos Odhe, Yenagoa Stakeholders from Ogbia Local Government Area of Bayelsa State have called on prominent sons and daughters including the former President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan to intervene in the leadership crisis rocking the Ogbia Brotherhood. The fold of the umbrella body of Ogbia sons and daughters, Ogbia Brotherhood, had been thrown into crisis with seriea of failed settlement moves and litigants approaching the court in a suit numbered OHC/13/2023 to sack the interim executives and give order for the appointment of a substantive executives for the group. The case, which came up on Tuesday at the Ogbia High…