A former Niger Delta ex-militant leader and Head of the Bayelsa State Waterways Security Task Force, Africanus Ukparasia, also known as “General Africa”, has described as lies allegations by a female activist from the Niger Delta, Ankio Briggs, that Governor Dickson had donated 1,200 hectares of Ijaw land to Fulani herdsmen for cattle grazing. He…
Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike has charged Local Government Caretaker Committee Chairmen to use the opportunity to serve as a stepping stone to climb the political ladder. Speaking at the Government House, Port Harcourt on Wednesday after the inauguration and swearing in of new Local Government Caretaker Committee Chairmen, Governor Wike regretted that in…
The investigative panel set up by the Inspector General of Police to investigate the violence and other offences perpetrated during the Rivers state re run election has indicted the state governor Barrister Nyesom Wike of complicity. The News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, reports that a police panel said that it recovered N111 million from 23…
AGENCY REPORT Rice is a big deal in Nigeria. People love eating it. So the BBC’s Ijeoma Ndukwe asks: why don’t they grow more of it instead of importing so much? A long line of customers queue along a glass divide separating them from a rice food station at an eatery in Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial…
Sola Jonathan in Lagos The National President of the Association of Nigerian Licensed Customs Agents (ANLCA), Prince Olayiwola Shittu has reiterated the fact that it is an aberration for the Comptroller General (CG) of the Nigerian Customs Service (NCS), Colonel Hameed Ali (rtd) to be the Chairman of the Board of the Service.. Shittu disclosed…
Two teenage girls, both armed with explosives vests around their bodies, were intercepted by security personnel near a mega fuel filling in Maiduguri, Borno State, while attempting to carry out an attack on the city, police said. Police spokesman, Victor Isuku, a deputy superintendent of Police who confirmed the incident, said one of the girls…
The Speaker of the Nigeria’s House of Representatives Yakubu Dogara said that successive administrations from 1999 to 2015 spent nearly N3 trillion on the power sector without recording much success. Mr. Dogara noted that within the stated period, when the Peoples Democratic Party controlled Nigeria at the centre, it was as if the more money…
The Federal Government has accused the National Assembly of holding back Nigeria’s infrastructural development by been antagonistic to the Executive. The Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, stated this on Monday while providing details of the rail project at the North Central Town Hall meeting held in Ilorin for the people of Kogi, Niger and Kwara…
The Presidential Committee on Fertilizer Initiative (PCFI) has expressed satisfaction with the participation of Indorama Eleme Fertilizer & Chemicals Limited (IEFCL), Port Harcourt, in the programme aimed at supplying NPK fertilizer to farmers nationwide at cheaper cost. Chairman of the committee, Alhaji Mohammed Badaru Abubakar who is also the Governor of Jigawa State made this…
Anti government protesters carried out their protest in Abuja on Monday as they promised even without the presence of the acclaimed leader of the protesters Innocent Ujah Idibia otherwise known as 2face Idibia. Police however stopped the protesters from reaching Nigeria’s presidential villa in Abuja. The demonstrations were called across the country to protest the…
