The Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, has presented award letters to 200 graduates from the Niger Delta region for its 2018 Post-Graduate Foreign Scholarship Programme.  Making the presentations, during a pre-departure briefing and orientation at the Hotel Presidential in Port Harcourt, the NDDC Managing Director, Mr Nsima Ekere, charged... Read more

Residents of Akemfa a suburb in Yenagoa on Saturday blocked all access roads to protest the killing Tariela Nikadae, a 20 year old undergraduate by a member of a Police Patrol Team on Friday. Policemen in patrol vans load people from their neigbourhoods and sent to detention centre near... Read more

The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Bayelsa says the ‘astronomical’ rise in cost of the Bayelsa Cargo Airport from N40 to N80 billion was worrisome and indicates diversion of public funds The APC said on Monday that the reaction of Bayelsa government to its allegations of using the project... Read more

Port Harcourt, Media practitioners detailed by their organisations to report the 2019 general elections in Nigeria have been enjoined to ensure that their reportage promoted transparency and all round security. The call was made on Tuesday in Port Harcourt by Mr Chris Mbata, the Chairman, Joint Health Workers Union... Read more

Staff and management of The Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Limited (SPDC) have spent the last two weeks working as volunteers in the distribution of relief materials worth over N300 millions to communities affected by devastating floods in the Niger Delta states of Rivers, Bayelsa, and Delta. With... Read more