Abuja—The Minister of Science and Technology, Dr. Alhassan Bako Zaku has stressed the need to further collaborate with the Chinese Government in order to realise the country’s dream in space technology. The minister said this while receiving in audience the delegation from the China Great Wall Industry Corporation (CGWIC) led by its Vice-President/CEO, Prof He […]

“It has become necessary to state that this amnesty package shouldn’t be another dubious and malicious virus being injected and introduced into the region to suppress the genuine agitation of the people that was hijacked by all manner of people because, if the intention is to lobby and buy a group of persons with N50 billion or any monetary amount, then it’s a very wrong approach towards ending and resolving the lingering crisis”

Aginighan in his response to questions on the funding situation of the commission said: ”Of a truth, the commission has not been funded strictly according to the letters of the law particularly the three main sources we have as provided for in section 14 of the Act, Federal Government to contribute an equivalent of 15% of the total allocation given to the nine member states of the NDDC, the oil companies to contribute 3% of their annual budgets and 50% of the funds given to the nine Niger Delta states from the ecological funds should be given to the NDDC.”

Ijolo said the strike would continue until the three months backlog of salaries owed the workers was paid and attributed the non-payment of the salaries to the freezing of the council’s account by the councillors of the local government council.

The presence of adequate electricity supply is a fundamental factor to effective economic growth and empowerment of the people. Most Isoko communities are still in darkness without electricity and pipe borne water.