The Federal Government says it is planning to set up a cassavaprocessing centre in Ogoniland to serve as an alternative source oflivelihood for the people of the area. Dr Marvin Dekil, Project Coordinator, Hydrocarbon PollutionRemediation Project (HYPREP), under the Ministry of Enviroment, madethe disclosure on Friday. He was speaking at the graduation of 15 Ogonis…
The Senate on Tuesday approved a $5.5 billion external loan request by President Muhammadu Buhari. The president had in a letter on Tuesday October 10 sought the Senate’s approval for $3 billion external loan and $2.5 billion Eurobond or Diaspora bond in the international market. Mr. Buhari explained that the bonds would be channelled towards…
The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has urged the Edo State House of Assembly not to pass the bill for a law to establish the Edo State Control of Nomadic Cattle Rearing/Grazing Agency and for Other Purposes Connected Therewith. It told the lawmakers to throw out the bill because ‘it is retroactive and backdated to…
Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Chief Audu Ogbe has said that Indorama Fertilizer is very important to achieve the Federal Government’s Agricultural Transformation Agenda, aimed at boosting food production across the country. The Minister who visited Indorama’s world-class fertilizer plant in Port Harcourt on Wednesday said that the Federal Government will help to tackle…
Former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar says Nigeria will continue to grapple with the crisis of severe and debilitating socio-economic problems unless it gets the structures of the federalism and governance right. Atiku stated this in a paper titled; “The Challenge of Unity, Diversity and National Development: Nigeria at a Crossroads’’, which he delivered at the formal…
Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike has stated that investments in agriculture will help the nation tackle youth unemployment . Speaking during a courtesy visit by the Minister of Agriculture, Chief Audu Ogbeh and Minister of State for Agriculture, Senator Heineken Lokpobiri at the Government House Port Harcourt on Wednesday, Governor Wike said agriculture is…
The Bayelsa State Government has been commended for making appropriate investments in the tourism sector in its efforts to diversify the local economy. Director General of the National Institute for Tourism and Hospitality, Mrs Chika Balogun gave the commendation when she paid a courtesy visit on the state Deputy Governor, Rear Admiral Gboribiogha John Jonah…
AT the last count 149, 669 Nigerian graduates of the 200,000 engaged by the Federal Government under the N-Power Volunteer Corps are now collecting their monthly stipends of N30,000 monthly having been physically verified and deployed across the 36 states and FCT. According to Mr. Laolu Akande, Senior Special Assistant on Media & Publicity to…
The Nigerian Navy said it has intercepted a boat carrying 80 bags of rice allegedly smuggled into the country from Benin Republic through water ways. A statement by the spokesperson of the Nigerian Navy Ship (NNS) BEECROFT, Elizabeth Ibrahim, said the operatives attached to its Forward Operation Base (FOB), Badagry, intercepted the 80 bags of…
Following reports yesterday of mass killing in Ohali-Elu town in Rivers State allegedly perpetrated by Fulani herdsmen, a youthsgroup known as the Niger Delta Youths Coalition (NDYC) has condemned the dastardly act as it also called on Ms AnkioBriggs to hurriedly lead a protest to condemn the attack. The herdsmen who were in the midst…
