The Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, has given contractors working on its projects across the region a new two-week window within which to return to sites or face sanctions. Rising from a Management Committee meeting in Port Harcourt on Wednesday, the Commission’s Managing Director, Nsima U. Ekere, reiterated the commitment of the Federal Government to…
Senator Magnus Ngei Abe, Senator representing Rivers South East Senatorial District, has assured that the district will enjoy the commencement of work at Bodo-Bonny road project, Ogoni Clean-up project, Andoni/Oyigbo Power project, Water Projects and East-West road project in this year’s budget. Speaking while appearing as a guest on Today’s 95.1 FM Port Harcourt, news…
Yesterday, Sokoto state Governor Aliyu Wamakko, together with his Bauchi state counterpart Alhaji Isa Yuguda each distributed N5million to Igbo natives who converted to Islam. Imo state Governor Rochas Okorocha and former Governor of Abia state Orji Uzor Kalu gave N2 million and N1million respectively to the converts. The event took place in Abuja’s National…
The Borno State Emergency Management Agency, SEMA, says 30,000 Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs, who fled the state at the peak of the Boko Haram insurgency have returned home. Abdullahi Umar, the spokesperson of the agency, said in a statement issued in Maiduguri on Wednesday that the figure was part of the 78,000 IDPs that fled…
President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered an investigation into the allegations of violations of law and due process made against the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF, David Lawal, in the award of contracts under the Presidential Initiative on the North East, PINE. The President has also directed the suspension of the SGF from…
Fayose made the accusation in reaction to the statement credited to the minister of information and culture, Lai Mohammed, that looters have resorted to burying stolen funds in their backyards, deep forests and burial grounds. The governor in a release on Monday, April 17, by his special assistant on public communications and new media, Lere…
Suspended senator representing Borno South Ali Ndume has vowed not to apologise to senate president Bukola Saraki in order to be reinstated. Ndume told his supporters in his constituency on Saturday, April 15, that he was suspended by his colleagues in the Senate because he wanted them to do what was right. The former…
Bayelsa State Governor, Hon. Seriake Dickson has signed the 2017 Appropriation Budget of N243.2 billion and the Educational Development Trust Fund Amendment Bills into law. Assenting to the two bills in Government House, Yenagoa, Governor Dickson said the budget, which is christened, “Budget of repositioning for Consolidation” was aimed at completing various on-going projects in…
The chair of parliament’s international development committee has called for the government to make clear what it is doing to investigate a $1.3 billion oil deal signed by Shell and Italian oil company ENI in Nigeria. The call comes after BuzzFeed News and the Italian newspaper Il Sore 24 Ore published “Shell Shocks”, a cache…
The Trump administration is closing a $600 million deal to permit the sale of a dozen highly sophisticated turboprop fighter planes to Nigeria to combat the Boko Haram Islamic terrorists despite the Nigerian air force’s repeated bombing of civilian targets. Within the next few weeks, the White House is expected to formally notify Congress of…
