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A workshop on ‘Responsible Procurement Policy’ in the private security industry was held in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital, Thursday with private security users, made up mostly of corporate bodies in the extractive, real estate and hospitality industries, being participants at the one-day training. Tagged, ‘Training Workshop on Development …

By Amos Odhe, Yenagoa The pan-Ijaw group, the Ijaw National Congress, INC, has frowned at the existence of a bill “purportedly sponsored by 59 members of the House of Representatives, who are of Northern extraction, with an intent to delete section 162 sub-section 2 of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal …

By Amos Odeh, Yenagoa Wife of the Ondo State governor, Chief Betty Anyanwu-Akeredolu, has urged women to conduct regular checks on their breasts to prevent the mortality rate associated with breast cancer in the country. Mrs Akeredolu, who is founder of Breast Cancer Association of Nigeria (BRECAN), stated this in …

By Amos Odhe, Yenagoa The absence of a witness for the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Wednesday stalled the trial of Mrs Beauty Apere for money laundering at the Federal High Court, Yenagoa. The accused is wife to Embelakpo Apere a former aide on Sustainable Development Goals to …

… Okaba Urges Them to Promote Unity The crème de la crème of the society converged at Abuloma Town Hall in Port Harcourt City Local Government Area to witness the epoch inauguration of the executive council of the Ijaw National Congress, Eastern Zone recently. The hall was full to the …

… Infrastructure, Health, Education Top Allocation  By Amos Odeh, Yenagoa Bayelsa State governor, Senator Douye Diri, on Wednesday, presented a 2022 Appropriation Bill of N310.7 billion to the state House of Assembly. Tagged, ‘Budget of Sustainable Growth,’ the budget gave the highest allocation of N51 billion to the Ministry of …

Aggrieved Isoko speaking Osekwenike, Abuetor and Osifo communities in Sagbama Local Government Area of Bayelsa State on Friday threatened to shutdown the Samabiri/Buseni Cluster Location housing nine oil wells, operated by the Nigerian Agip Oil Company (NAOC), over alleged refusal by the oil giant to keep to the Global Memorandum of …

There was jubilation on Thursday in the Niger Delta following the reappointment of Col. Milland Dixon Dikio (rtd) as the interim administrator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP) by President Muhammdu Buhari.  Buhari approved the renewal of Dikio’s tenure for another one year in a statement issued by the presidential …

By Young E. Freeborn, Warri The Engr. Dr. Samuel Adjogbe Foundation (EDSAF) has donated notebooks and other educational materials to schools across Ughelli North Local Government Area of Delta State. This measure by the foundation was done in partnership with the Rotary Club of Ughelli Metropolis, with many students and …

Niger Delta activist and prominent Ijaw chief, His Highness Anabs Sara-Igbe, has called on governors of South-South states in Nigeria to come clean and tell the public how they expended the 13 percent oil revenue over the years before demanding for an increase to 50 percent, noting that the region …