Abandoned projects: Oil communities, cabal clash in Edo
AJAOKI—OIL and gas producing communities of Itsekiri extraction at Ikpoba Okha Local Government Area, Edo State, are embroiled in an all-consuming face-off with a cabal they accused of arm-twisting the communities and collecting mobilization fees from the Edo State Oil and Gas Producing Areas Development Commission, EDSOGPADEC, without executing the projects.
Delta chief impregnates 15-yr-old granddaughter
UDU—A 15-year-old primary school leaver, names withheld, has pointed finger at her step grandfather, a chief and president-general of a community in Delta State for her four-month-old pregnancy. She told Niger Delta Voice that the husband of her grandmother slept with her in his two-bedroom domicile, an accusation the man hotly denied.
Finally Dogara releases list of C’ttee heads
THE Speaker of House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara Thursday announced the Chairmen and Vice Chairmen of the 96 House Committees but the Ministry of the Niger Delta Affairs was yet to get its head.
S. African students in court over violent protest
Six students on Thursday appeared in the Cape Town Magistrate’s Court to face charges of treason, assault and contravening the National Key Points Act.
Amaechi’s screening and APC, PDP senators’ disagreement
Senators of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Thursday disagreed before they eventually screened the former governor of Rivers, Rotimi Amaechi.
91 firms bid for NNPC’s petroleum products transport contract
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, Thursday, stated that 91 companies, consisting mainly of indigenous vessel owners, are vying to secure the contract for the provision of coastal and bunkering vessel services for the operations of the Pipelines and Products Marketing Company, PPMC, a subsidiary of the NNPC.
