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…
Buhari sack AMAECHI’S boys in NDDC. President Muhammadu Buhari has sacked Chibuike Rotimi AMAECHI’S led Niger Delta Development Commission’s (NDDC) Management team. In a release in Abuja on Tuesday a new Board has been appointed. The new Board is led by APC National Adams Oshiomhole camp led by former deputy governor of Edo state Dr…
Minister of Transportation Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi has declared free transportation services for staff and management of the ministry. Amaechi said the decision was to help ameliorate the challenges faced by the staff in the discharge of their civic duties. The Minister stated this at an interactive session with staff and management of the ministry, Monday….
Ex INEC Chair IWU under trail over N1.2b 2015 Poll fraud inelection won by Buhari……….says Am a victim of witch hunt , victimization.FROM VINCENT EGUNYANGAFormer Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission(INEC) Professor Maurice Iwu has said his trail by the Economic andFinancial Crime Commission (EFCC) over alleged bribe of over onebillion naira to rig…
A Federal High Court in Abuja has granted the Department of State Service (DSS) an application to detain the convener of #RevolutionNow Protest, Omoyele Sowore in their custody. In his ruling, Justice Taiwo Taiwo said he will grant the application only for a period of 45 days. The DSS had earlier on Tuesday approached the…
The Acting Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission,NDDC, Prof Nelson Brambaifa, has promised that the interventionist agencywill endow a Professorial Chair in Oncology at the University of PortHarcourt, UNIPORT. This follows a similar endowment of a professorial chairin malaria research for the university in 2016. The NDDC Chief Executive Officer was speaking during…
Port Terminal Operators Limited (PTOL), one of the two terminaloperators running the Port Harcourt port, says it is anticipating morecargo heading to Port Harcourt and is expanding its operational baseto accommodate this. The General Manager, Darrick Moss, who stood in for the ManagingDirector, Efoita Ephraim, said PTOL is anticipating more cargoactivities at the Port Harcourt…
During the week the Regional Manager Media Trust limited Port Harcourt Vincent Egunyanga hosted some senior Journalists to a lunch in Port Harcourt. He did it to honour his friend Dr Ibitoye Abosede PHD Director Corporate Affairs Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) who just bagged his PHD. IT WAS PURELY A MEDIA AFFAIR [images_grid type=”carousel”…
