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By Amos Odeh, Yenagoa A non-governmental organization, Stakeholder Alliance for Corporate Accountability, SACA, has stressed the need for members of cluster development boards to exhibit openness while executing projects and programmes contained in the Global Memorandum of Understanding, GMoU. Executive Director of SACA, Mr. Kingsley Ozegbe, stated this at a …

By Joel Anekwe The Federal Government says it has set an annual recruitment target for the Nigeria Police, aimed at increasing the force both numerically and in terms of equipment. This is part of a recently initiated reform programme for the Nigeria Police Force to boost its services to Nigerians, …

By Amos Odeh, Yenagoa Chairman of the Directorate for Project Monitoring and Evaluation, Engr. Ebiye Tarabina, has tasked contractors handling government projects in the state to intensify efforts to meet projects’ completion deadline. Engr. Tarabina gave the directive during an inspection and evaluation tour of ongoing projects in the state recently. …

Performances by Onofiok Luke and Bassey Akpan at the House of Representatives and Senate respectively gave a lift to bills sponsored by the Akwa Ibom State contingent at the 9th National Assembly. This is according to a midterm analysis, by legislature-focused media, OrderPaper, of the nature and quality of bills sponsored …

Issues surrounding the real ownership of companies and entities operating in the extractive industry in Nigeria, as well as contract transparency, were the subject of a workshop organized by a non-governmental organization, Policy Alert, in Port Harcourt recently. The one-day Extractive Sector Data Journalism Workshop for investigative reporters across Delta, …

The 3rd phase ex-agitators in the Niger Delta have called for the confirmation of Col Milland Dixon Dikio (rtd) as the substantive administrator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP). This, they said, is based on the reforms, principles and models, such as Train, Employ and Mentor (TEM), that had been …

The commissioner of Police Bayelsa State Command, CP Echeng E. Echeng, has received the country representative of the United Nations Office on Drug and Crime (UNODC), Dr Oliver Stolpe, and the national coordinator of Police Campaign against Cultism and other Vices (POCACOV), CSP Ebere Amaraizu, at the command headquarters, Ovom, …

By Young E. Freeborn, Warri As the 2021/2022 academic session commence in Delta State a few weeks ago, parents and guardians of students and wards of unity and special schools (boarding schools) in the state have complained of a recent increase in fees of boarding schools across the state. They …

A non-governmental organization, Stakeholders Alliance for Corporate Accountability, SACA, has intensified efforts at training students in Bayelsa State on effects of oil spillages. Our correspondent learnt that as part of its campaigns against the dangers associated with spills, SACA kick-started and has since concluded a five-day training of pupils and students …

The Delta State House of Assembly has passed the Prohibiting Open Grazing, Indiscriminate Breeding, Rearing and Marketing of Livestock in Delta State, otherwise known as Anti-Open Grazing bill.  The bill was passed following a motion to that effect by the majority leader of the House, Hon Ferguson Onwo, and adopted …