CHEVRON Nigeria Limited has called on the people of oil-rich Kokodiagbene community, Delta State, currently at loggerheads with it over electricity supply, to seek implementation of their demand under the Federal Government’s gas-powered mini- Independent Power Project, IPP, for riverine communities.

Bayelsa State Government has urged members of the Nigeria Union of Teachers, NUT and other affiliate unions to exercise restraint over their proposed strike over the non-payment of salary of primary school teachers.

THE National Agency for the Great Green Wall (NAGGW), is to partner with the Nigerian Prisons Service in tackling the menace of desertification.

FOLLOWING his campaign for President Muhammadu Buhari re-election in 2019, a socio-cultural group, Oyo Development Initiative, ODI, has warned the Minister of Communication, Alhaji Adebayo Shittu to refrain from the act.

OBA of Benin, Ewuare II, has felicitated with Nigerian workers on the occasion of the 2017 Workers Day celebration.

A modular refinery and petro- chemical industry is to be established in Eghudu, Ovia North-East Local Government Area of Edo State, by a United States of America-based Nigerian business man, Mr Charles Ihaza.

SOME pan- Niger Delta civil society groups, yesterday, maintained that northern conspiracy, not corruption and mis-governance, caused the defeat of ex-President Goodluck Jonathan in the 2015 presidential election.

Four persons were reportedly burnt to death in an accident involving a truck and a Toyota bus at Mowe on Lagos-Ibadan Expressway.

Chief Medical Director of University of Uyo Teaching Hospital, Professor Etete Peters, has disclosed that over 15 million Nigerian are suffering from asthma caused by air pollution .

Former minister and spokesman of the 2015 Goodluck Jonathan Presidential Campaign, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, has distanced the campaign organisation from the reported N13 billion cash found in a National Intelligence Agency, NIA, safe house in Ikoyi, Lagos.

The Department of State Services, DSS, has accused an anti-graft agency of the Federal Government of collaborating with a former senior adviser to President Goodluck Jonathan to undermine the peace of the Niger Delta.

THE Federal Government said, yesterday, that the country’s power supply was in need of a cost effective tariff.

The Gombe State Governor, Alhaji Ibrahim Hassan Dankwambo OON, PhD. (Talban Gombe) has called on the Nigeria Union of Journalists to continue working under the guidelines of the professional ethics of Journalism. In his Keynote address at the National Executive Council (NEC) meeting of the Union held at Matrix International Academy Gombe, Governor Dankwambo said […]

COMPTROLLER of Prisons in Delta State, Mr Sam Iyakoregha, has said that minor offenders should be subjected to psychological therapy rather than being sent to prisons.

No fewer than 50 persons were feared killed, yesterday, following a raid on another Akwa Ibom State community, Akpa-Mfrukim, in Akan Obio, a fishing settlement in Uruan Local Government Area of the state by armed youths suspected to be from Odukpani Local Government Area in Cross River State.