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By Joel Anekwe The new head office of the Nigeria Liquified Natural Gas (NLNG) in Port Harcourt was officially opened for operations on Wednesday. This was as the Rivers State governor, Nyesom Wike, dismissed as “conspiracy” the narrative that the region was not safe for business. Speaking at the occasion, …

The Twon Brass community in Bayelsa, hosts to Agip’s Crude Export Terminal has continued ongoing protests against lingering power outage in the settlement, while shunning entreaties from their monarch, King Alfred Diete-Spiff. Our correspondent gathered that the people alleged that the monarch was complicit in several efforts by Agip to …

By Amos Odeh, Yenagoa The lawmaker representing Sagbama/Ekeremor Federal Constituency Hon. Fred Agbedi, has urged Bayelsans to embrace cooperative societies. Agbedi made the call at an event organized by the Alliance of South South States Cooperatives Financing Agencies of Nigeria (ASSSCOFAN) held in Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital. “This is a …

The national leadership of the Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) has expressed deep worry over what it described as “the violent turn of NLC peaceful protests by the dictatorial and despotic regime of Governor Nasir El-Rufai in Kaduna State,” warning that it will not hesitate to call …

Bayelsa State Government has opened partnership discussions with its Akwa Ibom counterpart on the use of Ibom Air to start commercial flight operations at the Bayelsa International Airport. Leader of the Bayelsa delegation to Uyo, the Akwa Ibom State capital, the state’s deputy governor, Senator Lawrence Ewhrudjakpo, noted that the …

By Amos Odeh, Yenagoa The 14-inch crude trunkline operated by Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) in the Niger Delta spilled 276 barrels of Shell’s Bonny Light crude blend in three incidents in April 2021. The Okordia-Rumekpe crude pipeline is part of the Trans Niger Pipeline (TNP) network crisscrossing SPDC’s onshore …

Former president of the Association of Nigeria Licence of Customs Agents (ANLCA), Chief Ernest Elochukwu, has lauded the Nigerian Shippers Council (NSC) over the launch of Port Process Manual, noting that the manual will address corruption in the Nigeria Customs and other agencies within the Nigeria port system. Chief Elochukwu …

… To Distribute Locally Produced Rice as Christmas Gift Bayelsa State Government says its investments in agriculture in partnership with the Central Bank of Nigeria in areas such as rice production will start yielding returns before the end of the year. The deputy governor, Senator Lawrence Ewhrudjakpo, stated this on …

The Nigerian Shippers Council (NSC), in conjunction with the Nigeria Ports Authority (NPA) and other maritime stakeholders, has launched the Nigeria Port Process Manual (NPPM), which stakeholders describe as a critical document for the sector. Participants at the stakeholders sensitization programme on the implementation of NPPM, by the Project Steering …

The Bayelsa State commissioner for Environment, Mr Iselema Gbalabiri, has once again reiterated the need for the international oil companies operating in the Niger Delta in general and Bayelsa State in particular to respect and implement the General Memorandum of Understandings they entered with their host communities so as to …