PREMIUM TIMES The Cross River State government has said it would quarantine for 14 days the staff of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) expected in the state to begin the collection of samples. Betta Edu, the commissioner for…
DAILY POST An Environmentalist, and Chairman, Board of trustees, Centre for Environmental Preservation and Development (CEPAD), Mr Furoebi Akene, has attributed the dead fishes littering the Niger Delta coastline to the discharge of toxic chemicals from Shell Petroleum Development Company…
THE NATION Youths from the Niger Delta region have sent a protest letter to President Muhammadu Buhari following an alleged plot to reinstate the suspended Coordinator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP), Prof. Charles Dokubo. The youths, under the auspices…
SAHARA REPORTERS Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Godswill Akpabio, has sent some staff of the Niger Delta Development Commission on mandatory leave after a contract scam in the agency was exposed by SaharaReporters. On April 24, SaharaReporters exposed a N5bn fraud involving the…
NIGERIAN TRIBUNE The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), on Wednesday, said the country has recorded 196 new cases of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), bringing the total to 1,728. NCDC, through its verified Twitter account, said of the 196 new…
NIGERIAN TRIBUNE The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), on Wednesday, said the country has recorded 196 new cases of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), bringing the total to 1,728. NCDC, through its verified Twitter account, said of the 196 new…
THE NATION Delta State Governor Ifeanyi Okowa has said the use of face masks in public places will be enforced across the state. The governor announced this on Tuesday as well as partial lifting of ban on movement in a…
CGTN The IMF board on Tuesday approved 3.4 billion U.S. dollars in emergency financing for Nigeria to help deal with the economic damage inflicted by the coronavirus pandemic. The loan aims “to support the authorities’ efforts in addressing the severe…
PUNCH NEWS Nigeria has recorded 195 new cases of coronavirus, bringing the total number of confirmed infections in the country to 1532. This was announced by the Nigeria Disease for Disease Control on Tuesday. The NCDC also said four new…
THE SUN Youths under the aegis of the Rivers Youth State Federation (RSYF) at the weekend staged a protest at the Logistics Base of Shell Nigeria Exploration and Production Company (SNEPCO) over an alleged plan by the company to relocate its…