French submarines have halted their search for the flight recorders of an Air France jet that crashed into the Atlantic on June 1, killing all 228 people aboard.
It is no longer news that Nigeria is a failing state. Some years ago it was just a theory propounded by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) of the United States.
By Vincent Ujumadu
AWKA – THE inability of plot allottees at the Ngozika housing estate in the heart of Awka, Anambra State capital to pay their outstanding allocation fees and development levies amounting to about N600 million is delaying the realization of the project, the managing director of Anambra State Housing Development Corporation, Mr. Mike [...]
PLANS by the Rivers state government to demolish water fronts in Port Harcourt has become a very topical issue in the state . It would be recalled that this issue first gained currency in the state under the administration of deposed governor Celestine Omehia. Omehia had adduced security reasons then for why he wanted slum settlements and shack houses in these water fronts removed and replaced with what then he styled descent accommodation.
ABUJA -THE Petroleum Technology Development Fund has disclosed that it would artner the Ministry of Niger Delta Affairs and the Rivers State Government to develop a skills training and development centre to be sited in Port Harcourt , Rivers State .
As part of its contributions towards the economic development of the Niger Delta, The Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria (SPDC) is sponsoring a series of radio programmes on small scale business development for entrepreneurs in its Eastern and Western areas of operations.
LEADERS of Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), and its affiliate, the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW), yesterday threatened to call out members on a nationwide industrial action should the Minister of Labour and Productivity, Prince Adetokunbo Kayode, go ahead to appoint a sole administrator for the Lagos State Chapter of NURTW from September.
David Ugolor Executive Director African Network for Environment and Economic Justice (ANEEJ) based in Benin Edo state spoke to Vanguard on what oil communities would want to see added to the PIB
The Police in Lagos have arrested a 16-year-old son of a serving senior Customs officer, for allegedly masterminding the kidnap of his classmate.
PORT HARCOURT: THE imbalance of power between employers of labour and their employees have been identified as one of the major challenges facing workers unions in the country.
GOVERNOR Emmanuel Uduaghan of Delta State must be wondering by now why some people are bent on sabotaging his efforts to put behind the ugly episode in which the facilities of facilities of the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Chevron Nigeria Limited and Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) in the state were destroyed by the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger-Delta (MEND) between May and June.
Aganbi, who stated this while speaking with newsmen recently at Mosogar, Ethiope West Local Government Area of the State, said instead of going to the Appeal Court to further challenge the election of Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan, Okocha should, in the interest of the development of the state, return to the PDP and wait for another opportunity to take a shot at the governorship of the state.
By Taye Obateru
Jos – Chairman of the Caretaker Committee appointed to oversee the affairs of the PDP in Plateau State, Chief Abu King Shiluwa says the committee was now ready to commence its assignment following the non-renewal of the court order restraining it.
He told journalists, yesterday, that the committee would seal up the [...]
By Peter Duru
MAKURDI – Crisis has broken out in Tarka Local Government Council of Benue State following the alleged kidnap of the newly sworn-in council chairman, Mr. Stephen Kpev, by unknown persons and the alleged plot by some individuals in the area to have him resign his position to pave way for the inauguration [...]
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