NDDC’s challenges daunting, not insurmountable —Ekere, new MD
THE new Managing Director of Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, Mr Nsima Ekere, has said that the new management of NDDC would tackle the enormous challenges confronting the commission, describing the challenges as daunting but not insurmountable.
100 LP, APC members in Delta decamp to PDP
OVER 100 members of Labour Party, LP, and All Progressives Congress, APC, in Delta State, have decamped to the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Ward 5, Ovu Inland, in Ethiope East Local Government Area of the state.
Bayelsa communities clash over oil-rich land
NEMBE- IBOU, Eminama and Dorgu-Ewoama communities, all in Nembe Local Government Area of Bayelsa State are spoiling for war over the ownership of Ibou Forest and Iyallakiri Creek oil location following claims by some families in Eminama and Dorgu-Ewoama that they own the contentious portion of land.
Empty military, police outposts: Rivers monarch laments non-deployment of personnel
ASARAMA: THE traditional ruler of Asarama community, Andoni Local Government Area, Rivers State, HRH Appolus Nteija Ewaye VI, Okan-Ama Asarama, has lamented that government has built police and military posts in the area over the years without deploying personnel to man them.
A’Ibom govt to communities: Hold PHEDC responsible for power collapse
UYO— SPECIAL Assistant to the Governor of Akwa Ibom State on Power, Mr. Meyen Etukudo, has said it was not the business of the State Government to dispense power and transformers, urging communities grumbling about damaged transformers and overloading to approach the Port –Harcourt Electricity Distribution Company, PHEDC.
I threw away my riches – Pa Etim
CALABAR—EIGHTY-TWO years old Papa Okon Etim, who has spent half a century of his life in pool betting and forecasting at Calabar, Cross- River State, said that he tossed away the money he made from the tricky business in his ambition to make more, moaning that at the twilight of his life, he has nothing to show.
