MALLAM Mele Kyari mounted the saddle as the Group Managing Director, GMD, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, with a very rich oil and gas industry background spanning over 27 years at a time the corporation and industry were experiencing very difficult times.

By Peter Duru – Makurdi Benue State is facing an uphill task of catering for the officially recognized 1.597million Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs, located in several camps and host communities spread across the state. Since the 2018 New Year day massacre by armed herdsmen in Logo and Guma Local Government Areas of the state that […]

By Jimitota Onoyume The controversy generated by former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s remark that oil in the Niger Delta belongs to Nigeria and not the region seems unending as Niger Delta activists said the ex-President’s children and kinsmen should call him to order. They also urged Obasanjo to identify the particular treaty that gave ownership of […]

By Peter Duru – Makurdi This is certainly not the best of times for the opposition All Progressives Congress, APC, in Benue state given the spate of high-profile defections that have hit the party in the last few weeks. Privileged information revealed that the party is neck deep in a crisis which may not be […]

STAKEHOLDERS of the Niger Delta are enthusiastically awaiting the end of this month (June) or latest July 5, which the Minister of Niger-Delta Affairs, Senator Godswill Akpabio, under pressure, promised ethnic nationalities of the region and ex-militant leader, Government Ekpemupolo, alias Tompolo, that the long-expected Board of the Niger-Delta Development Commission, NDDC,