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… African Countries Seeking of Nigeria’s Local Content Template ~ Sylva By Amos Odeh, Yenagoa The Federal Government has expressed concern over the rising cost per barrel of crude oil produced in the country, describing it as an anomaly that erodes our net revenue from crude oil sales, and depletes …

By Joel Anekwe  Rivers State governor, Nyesom Wike, has advised top military personnel not to allow themselves to be used by politicians, because security suffers when politicians influence military operations.  Speaking during a courtesy visit by the new general officer commanding 6 Division of the Nigerian Army, General Felix Agugo, …

By Joel Anekwe  The Rivers State Police Commissioner of Police, Mustapha Dandaura, has said that an insecure environment scares away investors and consequently gives rise to poverty, criminality and underdevelopment. He said that insecurity in a society is a function of disobedience to law and order adding that “it is …

By Amos Okioma, Yenagoa  Members of Aghoro 1 community in Ekeremor Local Government Area of Bayelsa State on Friday berated the Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria (SPDC) for short-changing them. They criticised the oil firm for arbitrarily determining the compensation figure for the May 17, 2018 spill in the …

The Onne Command of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has intensified efforts at ensuring that goods cleared at the port undergo proper documentation procedures. This is in tandem with the warning given by the Area Controller, Galadimma Saidu, to officers and men of the command as he assumed duty months …

By Young Erhiurhoro, Warri The Urhobo Economic & Investment Group (UEIG), a business development platform, have ended its second business summit with a call on the Delta State government to create an enabling environment for investors and entrepreneurs to establish their businesses in the state. The event which was organized …

… Deny Plans to Defect By Amos Okioma, Yenagoa Sixteen out of the nineteen Peoples Democratic Party members of the Bayelsa State House of Assembly have passed a vote of confidence on the state governor, Hon Henry Seriake Dickson. In an interview with newsmen in Yenagoa, Speaker of the Assembly, …

By Amos Okioma, Yenagoa  The outgoing governor of Bayelsa State, Hon. Henry Seriake Dickson, has accused the All Progress Congress (APC) of using former President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan to legitimise illegality during the just concluded November 16 gubernatorial poll. Governor Dickson stated this during a world press briefing held three …

By Amos Okioma, Yenagoa YIAGA AFRICA, a civil society organisation, says there are indications that the results of the November 16 Bayelsa State gubernatorial election were manipulated. The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) had declared David Lyon, candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Saturday’s exercise, as winner of …

Indigenous oil and gas firm, Aiteo Eastern Exploration and Development Company of Nigeria Limited (Aiteo), has again raised concerns on the recent spate of sustained attacks on the key national oil infrastructure in its asset base, the Nembe Creek Trunk Line (NCTL). In a release by Ndiana Matthew, the company …