Local Content: Indigenous firm blazes trail in HDD technology
The Local Content Initiative of the Federal Government is yielding greater results, as indigenous firms are gradually gaining global recognition through their exemplary performance in Horizontal Directional Drilling, HDD Technology, in the Nigerian oil and gas industry.
Extra-judicial killing: Rep lauds judiciary for sentencing ex-policeman to death
Chairman House Representatives Committee on Niger Delta Affairs, Mr Warman Ogoriba, yesterday hailed the judiciary for passing the death sentence on an ex-policeman, Matthew Egheghe, who killed a 20-year-old man in Bayelsa State in 2011, for accusing him of taking bribe at a check-point.
Detained community leader’s mother, wife, son charged for assault, stealing
IT was a pitiable sight at the Chief Magistrate’s Court, Nteje in Oyi Local Government Area of Anambra State, yesterday, as tears flowed freely among some onlookers when Mrs. Adaeze Anyakorah, the 65-year-old mother of a detained community leader at Uruebo village, Nkwelle Ezunaka, Mr. Ambrose Anyakorah, was handed a six-count charge for allegedly assaulting and stealing property worth thousands of naira from two prominent people in the community.
One year after demolition, Badia residents recount ordeal
Walking through the rail track at Ijora Badia, Mr. Oluwagbemiga Anjorin gazed at the portion of the land where his parent’s house used to stand before February 23, 2013.
LAGOS BOMB BLAST 12TH ANNIVERSARY:Fashola dedicates commemorative road to victims
In memory of the victims of 2002 Ikeja Military Cantonment bomb blast, Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State, yesterday, named the newly constructed Ejigbo-Ajao estate link road, in Oshodi-Isolo Local Government Area as ‘January 27 Link Bridge.’
Pirates attack tug boat, abduct engineer, captain in Bayelsa
Suspected pirates Saturday, attacked a tug boat belonging to the Nigerian Agip Company, NOAC, along the Nembe creeks in Bayelsa State.
An engineer and the boat’s captain were reportedly kidnapped.
The attack, it was learnt, was launched in the evening by seven armed men suspected to the pirates.
How fake gynaecologist was nabbed in Lagos …Charged to court
On top of the one storey building located at 163, Itire Road, Mushin, Lagos, is a bold inscription ‘’JOSSY-JD LTD, Obstetric and Gynecology.”
NNPC promises increase in gas supply to power
The Nigerian National Petroleum Company, NNPC, said that gas supply to power plants will improve over the next five weeks, following the massive repair works on ruptured gas pipeline in the Niger Delta region.
The Corporation also said that a total of N800 million had so far been spent on a number of vandalised gas pipelines.
2015: MASSOB declares support for Jonathan
The leadership of Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, has thrown its weight behind President Goodluck Jonathan in the forthcoming presidential election.
Nigeria, Benin Republic strategise to address problem on vehicle imports
The Nigeria Customs Service and its Beninoise counterpart are currently meeting to strategies on the problem of appropriate transit of imported vehicles from Republic of Benin to Nigeria.
Lagos approves N200 million for displaced Ijora-Badiya residents
The Lagos State Government has approved over N200 million to resettle the former occupants of the site acquired for the construction of 1008 units of flats at Ijora Badia. Governor Babatunde Fashola who disclosed this when he visited the illegal dump site being regenerated by his government promised to resettle the displaced inhabitants of the area.
