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By Young E. Freeborn, Warri A non-governmental organization in Delta State, Think Global Initiative (TGI), have recently presented a public talk at Omavovwe Secondary School, Omavovwe-Agbarha in Ughelli North Local Government Area of Delta State with a call on students and staff of the school to say no to violence …

By Amos Odhe, Yenagoa The commissioner in charge of Bayelsa State Police Command, Ben Nebolisa Okolo, has presented cheques worth N24, 295,062 million to the families of eight personnel of the command who died in active service. Police Commissioner, Ben Nebolisa Okolo, who presented the money​ to the next of …

Non-governmental organization, Social Action, has called on the Federal Government to rehabilitate the ailing and comatose petroleum refineries as a strategy to curbing the re-emergence of fuel scarcity in the country. In a release signed by its communications officer, Comfort Agbebaku, Social Action said this call becomes necessary as the …

By Tunde Uchegbuo Chairman of Emohua Local Government Area, Dr. Chidi Lloyd, has promised to give one hundred thousand naira to each of the first ten families in Obelle to return home. He also assured that he and his political appointees from the area would shift base to the community …

By Amos Odeh, Yenagoa Following the delay in carrying out proper remediation, given the oil leak that devastated the environment, the lawmaker representing Brass Federal Constituency in the House of Representative, Hon. Sunny Goli, has called on Conoil to swing into action to mitigate the adverse impact on both the …

By Young E. Freeborn, Warri The DG/CEO of National Biosafety Management Agency (NBMA), Dr. Rufus Eseoghene Ebegba, has paid a courtesy visit to the office of the International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Applications (ISAAA) and that of the Africa Agricultural Technology Fund (AATF) in Nairobi, Kenya. This was …

By Godwin Chukwumaechi A Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos has struck out the suit filed by Dr Godwin Uyi Ojo, former executive director of the Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN), against erstwhile chair of the organisation, Nnimmo Bassey, and the board of trustees of the …

By Godwin Chukwumaechi Advocacy and rights group, Ashcraft Centre for Social Science Research, has disclosed plans to host a South-South Zonal Stakeholders Summit, with the theme: ‘Domesticating Stakeholders Statutory Responsibilities in Protecting Nigeria’s Critical Infrastructure and Assets.’ The summit is a private/public sector partnership, with the aim of “galvanising responsibility …

By Amos Odhe, Yenagoa Polling Units Ambassadors of Nigeria, PUAN, a non-partisan organization, “saddled with the responsibility of providing electoral awareness at the polling units community,” has held an expanded National Executive Council, NEC, meeting, towards proffering solutions to issues of vote buying and other matters during the 2023 general …

By Young E. Freeborn, Warri Hon. Marcus Uba, an All Progressives Congress (APC) chieftain from Evwreni town and Hon. Desmond Okpako, a former councillor in Evwreni Ward were recently attacked by “a group of bandits parading as members of the Delta State Task Force.” Our correspondent reports that the attack …