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By Young Erhiurhoro I was overwhelmed when I read the 1960 Independence Day speech of Nigeria’s first Prime Minister, Alhaji Abubakar Tafawa Balewa. The very first speech that removed the British Union Jack and installed in its place the most awaited Nigerian flag of green, white and green. As I …

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 Joel Anekwe The Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (FCCPC) has charged the Port Harcourt Electricity Distribution Company, PHEDC, to improve services to its customers. This is as the commission begun moves to resolve series of complaints by electricity subscribers to PHEDC in Rivers State Executive Vice Chairman of FCCPC, Mr …

By Young Erhiurhoro It has become a norm, a custom and a cultural practice for the children, family members and Igbe members to celebrate late Uku Sunday Efedudu’s exit and passage from this planet earth every year since 2007. Here again, the 2021 memorial anniversary of this great Igbe leader …

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 …

The Council for the Registration of Freight Forwarders in Nigeria (CRFFN) Tuesday organized a workshop in Port Harcourt to sensitize freight forwarders on the payment of practitioners’ operational fees through the regulator’s online portal. CRFFN’s director, Regulations and Enforcement, Basil Opara, told newsmen on the sidelines, that the workshop, with …

The new chairman of the Port Harcourt Unit of the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN), King George Abraham Appie, has lamented the non-functional state of the Port Harcourt and its negative impact on his members. Fielding questions from newsmen Wednesday in his office, Appie said the situation at …

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, …