By Young E. Freeborn, Warri The immediate past executive director, Projects (EDP) at the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Chief Engr. Samuel Adjogbe, recently led a high-powered delegation, comprising members of the political and business class and community leaders to grace the burial of late Mrs. Janet Avwouwekpada Dietake. Late …
Read More »Governorship Aspirant Lauds Atiku for Prioritizing Restructuring, Resource Control
By Godwin Chukwumaechi A governorship aspirant in Rivers State and serving member of the House of Representatives, Farah Dagogo, has commended Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar for making the burning issues of restructuring and resource control priorities of his administration if he is elected president of Nigeria in …
Read More »Wike Promises Obi Logistics Support for 2023 Campaigns
By Godwin Chukwumaechi Rivers State governor, Nyesom Wike, offered to provide logistics support to Mr Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) whenever he visits Rivers State for his presidential campaign. Wike made the commitment to Obi on Thursday in Port Harcourt as Obi and his running …
Read More »Glamour at National Network Newspaper’s 18th Anniversary
It was simply grandiose, full of glamour and glitz. Talking about the National Network Newspaper’s 18th birthday anniversary staged at the Banquet Hall of the prestigious five-star Hotel Presidential, Port Harcourt, Rivers State capital. The management team of the sizzling newspaper led by its pragmatic publisher, Pastor Jerry Needam, had …
Read More »Floods: Lions Club Presents Relief Materials to Delta Communities
By Young E. Freeborn, Warri Regions 11 and 12, District 404A1 of the Lions International Club, both based in Warri, Delta State, have presented relief materials worth millions of naira to Okwagbe and Emadadja communities in Ughelli South Local Government Area and Ozoro kingdom in Isoko North Local Government Area. …
Read More »Wealveth Trains 30 Airforce Officers on Digital Skills
Not less than 30 officers of the Nigerian Air Force have graduated from a cyber security and digital skills acquisition programme, organised by a non-governmental organisation, Wealveth Hub for Administrative Advancement. The students, according to our correspondent, were trained on e-archiving, e-traveling and cyber security among others. Speaking at the …
Read More »Exonerate Saro Wiwa, Other Ogoni ‘Martyrs’, Jackrich Tells Buhari
Governorship candidate of the National Rescue Movement, NRM, in Rivers State, High Chief Sobomabo Jackrich, has identified with the people of the Ogoni ethnic nationality as they commemorate 27 years of the “unjust killing” of Environmental Rights activist and social crusader, Ken Saro Wiwa and eight other Ogoni compatriots. In …
Read More »Ogoni 13: Sobomabo Jackrich Seeks Pardon for Saro Wiwa, Others
27 years after the death of the Ogoni 13, the executive director of the Network for the Defence of Democracy and Good Governance, Amb Sobomabo Jackrich, has paid tribute to leader of the Ogoni 9, Ken Saro Wiwa, and other “heroes of the struggle for the social, economic and environmental …
Read More »Extra-Judicial: Bayelsa Community Accuses NSCDC Personnel of ‘Killing Youths’
By Amos Okioma, Yenagoa Elders and leadership of the Adiegbe Community in Ekeremor Local Government Area of Bayelsa State have accused six personnel of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) of alleged involvement in the killing of three youths of the community over involvement in illegal bunkering and …
Read More »Diri Presents 2023 Budget Proposal of N385.2bn
… Sets up Directorate of Flood, Erosion Control By Amos Okioma, Yenagoa Bayelsa State governor, Senator Douye Diri, on Monday, presented a N385,211,578,924 Appropriation Bill for the 2023 fiscal year to the House of Assembly for consideration. Presenting the proposal tagged: ‘Budget of Sustainable Growth and Reconstruction,’ at the Assembly, …
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