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… as 80 Women test Positive to Benzene in Otuabagi Community By Kelechi Nwaucha Women from communities in the Niger Delta have dragged international oil companies, Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC), Total E&P and Agip Oil Company, before an Environmental Tribunal, sitting in Port Harcourt on Wednesday, August 7, 2024, …

By Godwin Chukwumaechi, Port Harcourt Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Samuel Ogbuku, has expressed belief that legal advocacy can play a significant role in highlighting the challenges that bedevil the Niger Delta region and proffering solutions to those challenges. He has thus urged young lawyers to …

By Amos Okioma, Yenagoa The Bayelsa State Government has called on the Federal Government to establish a liquified natural gas terminal in the state to optimize economic benefits accruing from the gas sub-sector of the country’s petroleum industry. The state’s deputy governor, Senator Lawrence Ewhrudjakpo, made the call when the …

… Hails NCDMB’s strides in Local Content Development Amidst the clamour for good governance and reduction in the cost of living in the country, the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources (Gas), Hon Ekperikpe Ekpo has expressed the Federal Government’s firm determination to advance the nation’s gas resources as the …

Seven top-flight Nigeria Premier Football League (NPFL) teams and a non-league side, Krusaders, will participate in the Governor Douye Diri pre-season tournament in Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital. Organizers of the tournament, led by Director General of the Prosperity Cup, Mr. Ono Akpe, gave the hint at a press conference …

…. Arrest Trucks Ladened with Stolen Crude in Delta By Godwin Chukwumaechi, Port Harcourt The Nigerian Army, 6 Division, Port Harcourt has announced that its troops uncovered massive dumps, where illegally refined products, totaling over 200, 000 litres, were stored across various locations in Bayelsa and Rivers states. Acting Deputy …

Accusation is false, baseless – Commissioner Emma Sunday The Rivers State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has accused Governor Siminalayi Fubara of allegedly sponsoring the attack on it’s party secretariat along Port Harcourt-Aba Road. The Caretaker Committee Chairman of the APC in Rivers State, Chief Tony Okocha made …

By Ehichioya Ezomon In an novel move that many Nigerians have hailed as in the right direction – even as they hold that it doesn’t go far enough – members of the House of Representatives have donated half of their salaries for the next six months – in the first …

By Amos Odhe A social activist, Christopher Awhawha, says the call to disband Delta State-owned security outfit, ‘Operation Delta Hawk,’ was not in the best interest of the state. Awhawha in a statement on Monday in Warri, Delta State, said, “My attention was drawn to a publication by a certain …

By Young E. Freeborn, Warri Uwheru people, especially those at home, have joined their kins in the diaspora and other Nigerians to send birthday messages, poured encomium and also offered prayers for one of their own, Chief Simeon Ohwofa, a Lagos-based industrialist and business guru as he marked a new …