THE PUNCH Members of the Ekpeye Oil and Gas Pipelines Host Families Association of Rivers State have presented before the National Assembly, separate demands, different from the 10 per cent operational cost being advocated by the Niger Delta host communities.…
THE GUARDIAN The Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) is to distribute 36 waste disposal trucks, two boat ambulances and 162 waste bins to the nine Niger Delta states to improve healthcare and improve sanitation. The states are Abia, Akwa Ibom,…
THE GUARDIAN Traditional rulers in the Niger Delta have demanded a legal backing to enable them play major roles in tackling insecurity within the region. The royal fathers insisted that, if the government is committed to returning lasting peace and security…
THE NATION Dutch Court of Appeal on Friday ordered the Nigerian subsidiary of Shell to pay compensation to four Bayelsa State farmers over oil spills in the state. The appellate court in The Hague ruled that the Nigerian arm of…
THIS DAY I was in primary six in 1977 when for the first time I saw Dumez caterpillars tearing the bushes and forests in Emohua for the purpose of constructing a road. That road was called the East-West road. Then…
PUNCH NEWS The Government of Rivers State and communities in the Niger Delta region have criticised the proposal by the Federal Government to unbundle the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation and privatise a part of it as well as oil assets…
THIS DAY Nigeria needs as much fuel as it can refine. With the roaring into life of modular refineries, the nation’s journey to self-sufficiency has begun. When President Muhammadu Buhari performed the virtual inauguration of the National Oil and Gas…
GUARDIAN • As community leaders exchange blows at public hearing • Agitators dismiss hearing as sham, tragic • ‘We want holistic participation in oil industries’ • Residents warn current PIB will cause more problems • Country moving in right direction,…
THE NATION Delta Government on Wednesday said its decision to upgrade three tertiary institutions to universities was to eliminate wasteful expenditure and expand admission spaces for Deltans seeking university education. Governor Ifeanyi Okowa had on Tuesday sent a Bill to…
PUNCH Worried by the influx of Fulani herdsmen into the Niger Delta forests, some stakeholders from the region have appealed to governments in the nine states of the region to rise up to the challenge. The stakeholders specifically urged governments…