From: Dianabasi Effiong, Calabar The Monorail System, Calabar, is currently ready for use but only awaiting its inauguration by President Muhammadu Buhari on a date convenient to the Presidency. The monorail when fully operational will use an Intamin P8 electric powered shuttle train to convey passengers from Tinapa Resort,... Read more
Dogara Pleads With Siasia, Dream Team
Sports August 29, 2016
The Speaker of The House of Representatives, Hon. Yakubu Dogara, has sent a passionate appeal to the national U23 team styled Dream Team V1, not to boycott its quarter final encounter against Denmark on Saturday, at the ongoing Rio 2016 Olympics. Dogara, who was speaking against the backdrop of... Read more
A Youth Corp members serving in Yenagoa on Wednesday brought succor to the Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camp at the Samson Siasia stadium with donation drugs and mosquitoe treated nets. The drugs and items worth one million naira were part of the Community Development Project of the Corps member.... Read more
A team of the Joint Task Force, (JTF) in the Niger Delta Operation Delta Safe on Saturday clashed with the Bayelsa Environmental Sanitation Authority during the monthly cleanup exercise . While the environmental exercise was going on, the JTF vehicle laden with armed soldiers was intercepted by the environmental... Read more
The Academic Staff Union of Universities has uncovered conflicting details in allocation to education sector in the 2016 budget of the Federal Government surrounded by padding controversy. Dr Beke Sese, Zonal Chairman of ASUU, Port Harcourt Zone, disclosed this on Wednesday in Yenagoa during the zone’s press conference on... Read more
Militants blow-up NPDC oil installation in Delta
News August 29, 2016
Gunmen suspected to be militants on Thursday night bombed oil installation belonging to the Nigeria Petroleum Development Company (NPDC) at Owhrode community in Udu Local Government Area of Delta. The gas pipeline supplies the Delta Steel Company with gas. President General of Owhrode community, Mr Michael Odjo... Read more
Secondary school teacher under the Academic Staff Union of Secondary Schools (ASUSS) in Bayelsa on Monday protested over unpaid four months’ salary arrears. The aggrieved teachers, who came out in their numbers, barricaded some major roads in Yenagoa, the state capital causing traffic hiccups for hours.. They carried placards... Read more
By Reno Omokri On the 15th of August 1945, the axis nations fighting in the Pacific theater defeated imperial Japan and two weeks later, Japan formally surrendered to allied forces led by the U.S. General, Douglas McArthur, who formally accepted the signed articles of surrender. But though the U.S.... Read more
Mrs Lilian Ekanem is Chairperson, Cross River State Child Protection Network. She spoke with Dianabasi Effiong on Child Witches branding. Excerpts: Main communities With Child Witch Syndrome This child witch syndrome in Cross River State or witchcraft-branding is really prevailing in Akpabuyo, Calabar South, we have a... Read more
This is a rebuttal to a write up by one Ena Ofugara titled: “HISTORY OF MINORITIES NEED FOR SELF ACTUALIZATION: IT PREDATES IGBO STRUGGLE FOR BIAFRA”. I am merely responding to correct some misconceptions that were created by those who don’t mean well for Nigeria and present these falsities... Read more
