*NDDC to provide more facilities for NYSC in Niger Delta* The Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, has promised to sustain its support for the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, especially in the area of providing facilities in the orientation camps in the Niger Delta region. The NDDC Managing Director, Mr. Nsima Ekere, gave the assurance…
Benue State Governor Samuel Ortom has announced his defection from the All Progressives Congress (APC) to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). The governor made the announcement during a meeting with elected local government chairmen and councillors on Wednesday at the Government House Makurdi, hours after protesting youths barred him from traveling to Abuja to attend the…
The Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, has inaugurated the 5.15-kilometre Oku Iboku Internal Road Project in Itu Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State. It also inspected the road and erosion control project which it is executing at the University of Uyo. Speaking at the commissioning of the Oku Ibokun roads and drainage, the NDDC…
Today, the Nigerian Senate passed the Report of the National Oil Spill Detection and Response Agency (NOSDRA) Act 2006 (amendment) Bill, 2018 (SB. 557). The Report, which was presented by the Senate Committee on Environment, chaired by Senator Oluremi Tinubu, was read for the third time in the upper legislative chamber. Speaking on the passage…
As the 2019 General Elections draw near. Executive Governor of Gombe State, Alhaji Ibrahim Dankwambo, has warned young people to be wary of politicians who delight in using them as political thugs to achieve selfish interests. Governor Dankwambo gave the charge in Gombe, the state capital, during the official opening ceremony of National Unity Convention…
The Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, has expressed dismay over the disruption of activities at its headquarters in Port Harcourt on Tuesday by officials of the Rivers State Internal Revenue Service, RIRS. Speaking on behalf of the NDDC Managing Director, Dr. Nsima Ekere, the Special Assistant on Media, Chijioke Amu-Nnadi, said the Commission was surprised…
The Supreme Court has upheld the appeal of Senate President Bukola Saraki and discharged him of the remaining three charges against him in the case of false declaration of assets. The court upheld the appeal in a lead judgment delivered by Justice Centus Nweze on Friday in Abuja, the nation’s capital.
The Federal High Court in Osogbo has ordered the National Assembly to immediately commence impeachment process against President Muhammadu Buhari. Justice Maurine Adaobi Onyetenu gave the order on Wednesday based on the suit filed Kanmi Ajibola and Sulaiman Adeniyi. They had three months ago written to both the lower and the upper chambers of the…
A rebel group announced its excision from the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), on Wednesday, calling itself Reformed APC (R-APC). Alhaji Buba Galadima, an engineer from Gashua, Yobe State, and former secretary of the defunct Congress for Progressive Change was introduced as the National Chairman of the group. He told a press conference at the…
SUBJECT: IGBOS HAVE THE RIGHT TO LAY CLAIM TO THE RULERSHIP OF THE COUNTRY – PRESIDENT MUHAMMADU BUHARI – AS APC NATIONAL CHAIRMAN, COMRADE ADAMS OSHIOMHOLE SAYS PRESIDENT BUHARI DOES NOT NEED TO CHANGE HIS NAME TO WIN VOTES – GOVERNOR ROCHAS OKOROCHA SAYS PRESIDENT BUHARI HAS SHOWN ENOUGH LOVE FOR IGBOS President Muhammadu Buhari…
