We Are In Dialogue With IPOB To Embrace Peaceful Methods Of Engagement – Ohanaeze Youth Wing
Chief Chinedu Arthur-Ugwa, Coordinator of Ohanaeze Youth Wing in South South says the group was persuading Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) to adopt peaceful means and embrace dialogue. Arthur-Ugwa who spoke in an interview with newsmen on Monday in Yenagoa said that Ohanaeze Ndigbo leadership was worried about the... Read more
Military Confirms Fire Incident At Conoil Fields In Bayelsa
The Joint military force deployed to protect oil infrastructure in the Niger Delta has confirmed a fire incident at an oilfield operated by Conoil in Koluama Southern Ijaw Local Government in Bayelsa. The fire which started on Saturday morning engulfed an oil rig owned by Depthwize Nigeria an oil... Read more
Bayelsa NSCDC Arrests Child Trafficking Syndicate, Rescues Two victims Trafficked For Prostitution In Ghana
The Bayelsa Command of Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) on Saturday said that it has arrested a girl child trafficking syndicate and freed two victims in Bayelsa. Mr Godwin Nwachukwu, State Commandant of NSCDC in Bayelsa said during a press conference at the Command’s headquarters in Yenagoa... Read more
Several Shot, Two Feared Dead  As Police, Mob Clash At Niger Delta University
At least two protesters were on Tuesday shot dead while several others were injured  following a clash between Police and protesters at Niger Delta University, (NDU) Amasoma in Bayelsa .   NDU, which was shut in March following incessant protests over alleged hike in sundry fees payable by students... Read more
Boro’s 50th Memorial: Ohaneze Youths Back Ijaw Youths On Restructuring
Ohanaeze Youths Wing on Saturday expressed solidarity with Ijaw youths in the on-going activities to commemorate the 50th memorial of late Ijaw icon Jasper Boro and called for restructuring the federation. Chief Chinedu Arthur-Ugwa Coordinator of Ohanaeze Youths Wing in South South, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN)... Read more
SPDC JV spends N14.85 billion on GMoUs in Rivers State
A total of N14.86 billion has been invested by the Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Ltd (SPDC) operated Joint venture on Global Memorandum of Understanding (GMoU) clusters in Rivers State, giving communities a highly-valued opportunity to decide and implement projects and programmes that have a lasting impact on... Read more
APC FG Desparate To Manipute  2019 Polls in Rivers — Governor Wike Alleges
. Accuses Federal Government of Plotting His Assassination Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike, has declared that the desperation of the APC Federal Government to manipulate the 2019 General Election will only lead to crisis. According to Wike said that no amount of brute force or intimidation will stop... Read more
Civil Society Organizations To Protest Hike In land Use Charges By Lagos State
A civil right organisation, the Save Lagos Group (SLG) has fixed 10th of July, 2018 as the date when its members and those of other civil society organizations would storm the secretariat of the Lagos State Government located in Alausa, Ikeja to protest the hike in payment for land... Read more
Shell fund supports Nigerian contractors with N472 billion loans
N 41 billion paid to 37 GMoU clusters in Niger Delta   Some 290 Nigerian contractors have received loans worth more than N472 billion under the Shell Contractor Support Fund, which was set up by Shell companies in Nigeria to help vendors and suppliers in the oil and gas... Read more
Communications Minister, Zinox Chairman to headline 2018 NiOMA
Honourable Minister for Communications, Barr. Adebayo Shittu, and Africa’s Serial Digital Entrepreneur, Leo Stan Ekeh, will headline the 2018 Nigerian Online Merit Award (NiOMA), the organisers said on Tuesday. The high profile event is scheduled to hold at the Main Hall of Lagos Sheraton Hotel, Ikeja, from 7pm on... Read more