NUPENG shuts Shell’s ERA field, threatens nationwide strike over unpaid benefits
By Victor Ahiuma-Young Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, NUPENG, has called on stakeholders, especially the Department of Petroleum Resources, DPR; Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC; Ministry of Labour and Employment, and Ministry of Petroleum Resources to compel Shell Petroleum Development Company, SPDC, and Valliant Energy Services, to pay the benefits of workers […]
NIGERIA @ 60: The nation has divided her children — Nigerians born in 1960 speak
By Josephine Agbonkhese This time in 1960 when Nigeria was still basking in the euphoria of her newly-acquired independence which marked its freedom from British rule, these Nigerians featured here today were either less than nine-month-old babies or about two months from birth date. As Nigeria celebrates 60 years of nationality, the country’s birthday mates […]
LEAKED VIDEO: Plot to blackmail me has backfired, says Gbagi
By Emma Amaize, Asaba Former Minister of State for Education, Olorogun Kenneth Gbagi, said the desperate actions of political detractors and blackmailers, some of them political appointees in Delta State, to smear his reputation have seemingly boomeranged. Olorogun Gbagi’s media aide, Sylvester Omonigho, reacting to a statement by the Executive Assistant to the Governor of […]
A/Ibom didn’t benefit from school feeding program despite FG’s promise – Gov Emmanuel
Akwa Ibom children did not benefit from the school feeding program despite fulfilling the conditions as provided by the Federal Government, according to Governor Udom Emmanuel. “During the lock-down occasioned by the COVID-19 pandemic, the National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, now under your ministry, requested information about the poorest of the poor in the 2,274 […]
With Nnamdi Kanu, no hope for Biafrans – Asari Dokubo
…‘How we fell out during Anambra, 2019 polls’ By Nnamdi Ojiego The founder of the Niger Delta People’s Volunteer Force (NDPVF), Mujihad Asari-Dokubo, has, again, attacked the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, saying he has derailed the Biafra struggle. Dokubo, who said he’s a Biafran and believes in Biafra […]
‘Obasanjo is Nigeria’s problem’
By Ephraim Oseji & Lamidi Bamidele A former governorship candidate in Oyo State, Hon. Saheed Ajadi, says Nigeria would have been rid of her economic challenges had former President Olusegun Obasanjo decentralized the country’s power sector. Ajadi submitted that it was a big error on the part of the former Nigerian leader to have pumped […]
