Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Timipre Sylva, has on Tuesday inaugurated two committees and five project teams for the Oloibiri Museum and Research centre which will be situated in Oloibiri, Bayelsa state. The virtual ceremony was anchored by Engr Simbi Wabote, Executive Secretary of the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) who is to…
Unimpressed with the worsening security situation in the country, President Muhammadu Buhari says he will soon carry out a total re-engineering of the nation’s security apparatuses. But in the meantime, Buhari has directed the Service Chiefs to strategize towards winning the terror fight. The National Security Adviser, retired Maj.-Gen. Babagana Monguno, disclosed this onTuesday while briefing…
Eighty-year-old Pa Napoleon Alale, father of Sagbama Local Government Chairman in Bayelsa has regained freedom after spending about three months in the den of his kidnappers.The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the local council chairman, Embeleakpo Alale, made the disclosure in a statement issued in Sagbama on Tuesday.The statement signed by the Chairman’s…
The Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC and a pressure group, the Niger Delta Rights Advocate , NDRA, are bickering over the proposed commissioning of Nembe/Ogbia road project. NDDC Head of Corporate Affairs, Charles Obi Odili had in a press statement issued in Port Harcourt on Tuesday said that the Commission has invited President Muhammadu Buhari…
Operators of Petroleum downstream sector in Anambra state have given governor Willie Obiano a 21 day ultimatum to call its agencies to order to stop harassing them or risk total shut of petroleum supply in the state.They said various government agencies have been intimidating and harrsaing them with multiple levies .The operators under the aegis…
