The $129.17 million Livelihood Improvement Family Enterprises Programme in the Niger Delta, LIFE-ND, being driven by the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, in partnership with the International Fund for Agricultural Development, IFAD, is targeted at creating 38,250 jobs in the agricultural sector. Speaking at a one-day stakeholder’s meeting of the LIFE-ND project at the Hotel…
he Commanding Officer, Forward Operating Base (FOB) of the Nigerian Navy in Ibaka in Akwa Ibom State, Capt. Peter Yilme confirmed the arrest of six suspected smugglers and seizure of 256 bags of 50kg rice.Capt. Peter Yilme noted this, while handing over the suspects and items to the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) at Ibaka, Mbo…
The proposed shutdown of the operation of OML 54 belonging to NigerDelta Petroleum Resources, NDPR by host communities has beengenerating tension in the state. The Deputy Speaker of the Rivers State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon.Ehie Ogerenye Edison, called on Chiefs, Elders, Youths, Men and Womenof the host communities of OML 54 to shun its…
INDEPENDENCE DAY SPEECH BY HIS EXCELLENCY MUHAMMADU BUHARI, PRESIDENT OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA ON THE OCCASION OF THE 59TH INDEPENDENCE ANNIVERSARY, 1st OCTOBER 2019 Dear Compatriots, 1st October each year is an opportunity for us to reflect and thank God for his endless blessings on our country. 2. It is also a time for us,…
The Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, has emphasised the need for collaboration with critical stakeholders to drive the process of development in the Niger Delta region. The NDDC Acting Managing Director, Dr Akwagaga Enyia, spoke after receiving an award of “Excellence for unprecedented Development Initiatives” bestowed on the Commission by the Miss Niger Delta Organisation…
A Federal High Court sitting in Kano has ordered the appearance of the Chairman Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), Mr Babatunde Fowler, to appear before it on October 7, 2019 and show cause why he should not be sacked for over staying his tenure which expired on August 18, 2019. The presiding judge of the…
Minister of Transportation, Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi has disclosed that he met a narrow gauge of a dismal operational capacity speed of about thirty to fourty kilometers per hour with a serious shortage of rolling stocks and dilapidated railway tracks . He stressed that the entire system was bedevilled by wired maintenance gap at…
Unscrupulous people, described as crude oil thieves have set fire on oilpipeline, belonging to Italian oil giant Agip at Ubeta community in theAhoada West Local Government Area of Rivers State. It was reported that the field is operated by Nigeria Agip Oil Company, asubsidiary of Italy’s Eni. Ubeta is a border community between Bayelsa and…
Exploration Resumes As NNPC, SPDC, Belema Settle Oil Mining Lease 25 DisputeENERGYBy Business Hilights On Sep 19, 2019 ShareFinally, peace has returned between the Nigerian National PetroleumCorporation (NNPC), joint venture partners, Shell ProductionDevelopment Company (SPDC), and Belema Oil following the resolution ofthe dispute on the operation of Oil Mining Lease 25. Signing the dispute closure…
The Ondo State Government has commended the Niger Delta DevelopmentCommission, NDDC, for its support towards the control of the Lassa feveroutbreak that hit several communities in the state earlier in the year. The government expressed its “profound appreciation” through a lettersigned by the Ondo State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Wahab Adegbenro, andaddressed to the NDDC…
