The Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, has commissioned the Adam Duke-Asuquo Ekpo Street in Calabar South Local Government Area of Cross River State. Speaking at the commissioning of the road, the NDDC Acting Managing Director, Prof Nelson Brambaifa, who was accompanied by the Acting Executive Director Finance and Administration, Dr Chris Amadi, and the…
The Cross River State Governor, Prof Benedict Ayade has welcomed the plans of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, to review the Niger Delta Regional Development Master Plan and pledged to support the process. Prof Ayade was speaking at the Government House, Calabar, during a courtesy visit by the NDDC Acting Managing Director, Prof Nelson…
The Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board, NCDMB, hasbegan to provide guidance to the Ugandan Petroleum industry on theimplementation of local content in their budding oil and gas industry. A delegation drawn from four different agencies in the Ugandanpetroleum department visited NCDMB yesterday, to understudy theimplementation of the Nigerian Oil and Gas Industry ContentDevelopment Act,…
PORT HARCOURT – UNCONFIRMED report has filtered that Prof. Emmanuel Amadi of Microbiology Department, Rivers State University, RSU, Port Harcourt, was murdered in his Rumuolumeni, Port Harcourt home Wednesday. Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, Rivers Command, Nnamdi Omoni, said he heard of the “attack” on the Professor from unofficial sources as well at the time…
President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of a new Group Managing Director for Nigeria’s National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, with effect from 7th July, 2019. Mr. Mele Kolo Kyari is the new Group Managing Director of the NNPC, replacing incumbent Maikanti Baru who is due to retire in July. President Buhari has also appointed seven…
The Archbishop of Kaduna Catholic Diocese, the Most Rev. Mathew Ndago-Manoso has claimed that life is getting worse for Nigerians under the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari, pointing out that in the absence of the Nigerian government in Borno communities Boko Haram terrorists have been providing services and taxing people. Ndago-Manoso said: “Insecurity starts from…
Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, is concluding arrangements to commission and deliver the N24 billion Ogbia-Nembe Road, carved out of deep mangrove forest and built in partnership with Shell Petroleum Development Company, SPDC. Acting Managing Director NDDC, Prof Nelson Brambaifa, disclosed this at a special Niger Delta stakeholders’ interactive dinner in Port Harcourt. The event…
The management of the Nigerian Ports Authority has announced the approval of a 10 per cent discount on harbour dues for vessels calling at the eastern ports.According to the agency, this is part of the efforts to increase patronage of the eastern ports.The ports that would be affected by the incentive are Calabar, Rivers and…
As part of development, and to prepare journalists for emergencies, the International Committee on Red Cross (ICRC)said that they will train members of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) in Rivers State on First Aid.Mr Stanley Job Stanley, the Chairman of NUJ in Rivers state, disclosed this in Port Harcourt while speaking at a one-day…
In celebrating this year’s World Environment Day recently, the Movement for the Survival of Ogoni People, MOSOP, has tasked the government at all levels and oil multinationals, for a renewed commitment towards ending all sources of air pollution in the Niger Delta region. President of MOSOP, Mr. Legborsi Pyagbara, particularly identified illegal refineries, gas flaring by…
