Bayelsa government on Tuesday said that there was no going back at the ongoing demolition of illegal structures in pursuit of its urban renewal project. It will be recalled that the Bayelsa COVID-19 Task Force Chaired by Gov Douye Diri had in the past weeks demolished illegal structures at... Read more
Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF) an environmental NGO has expressed divergent views with the National Oil Spills Detection and Response Agency (NOSDRA) on the causes of massive death of fishes littering the coast. NOSDRA) had on May 14 said that findings on the dead fishes on the Atlantic... Read more
Environmental lawyers in the Niger Delta have expressed concerns over the looming public health danger occasioned by the contamination and massive death of fish along the Atlantic coastline of the region. The lawyers under the aegis of the Association of Environmental Lawyers of Nigeria (AELN) on Sunday urged the... Read more
Happy Founders’ Day celebration to the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC)
FeaturedPress Releases May 16, 2020
– The labour of our heroes past shall never be in vain – Gana_ The Civil Defence began in Nigeria on this day May 16th 1967 The Commandant General, Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps Abdullahi Gana Muhammadu has expressed his happiness and commendation on the performance and achievements... Read more
11 May 2020 – In response to mounting concerns around the impact of COVID-19 on malaria elimination efforts across the African continent, the African members of the End Malaria Council have released a joint statement and a four-pronged action plan calling on African and global leaders to act quickly to: protect the... Read more
*Urges National Assembly; Nigerians to stop the fraud: A civil rights advocacy group, the Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) has accused the Nigeria’s Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs of planning to feed ghost pupils as the ministry intends to proceed with a School Feeding Programme even as schools... Read more
In continuation of the fight to check the spread of coronavirus, Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike has announced the compulsory use of face masks in the state. Governor Wike also stated that the State Security Council will in the next 24 hours take stringent measures against commercial transport... Read more
The Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) on Monday said that the dead fishes floating and littering the Niger Delta coastline has got nothing to do with its operations. Residents along the Atlantic coastline in Delta, Bayelsa, Rivers and Akwa Ibom have reported massive death of croaker fish specie since... Read more
The Aliko Dangote Foundation (ADF) (www.Dangote.com/foundation/), a philanthropic endeavor of Aliko Dangote, has contracted 54Gene, a molecular diagnostics company specialised in research, and diagnostics, to immediately set up a 400 test/day capacity laboratory in Kano State. This was made known in a statement by the Foundation and made available to... Read more
• Provides list of witnesses Subterranean plots hatched by some unscrupulous persons to rig the forthcoming election of the Onitsha International Drug Market in Anambra State, has been revealed by the International Society for Civil Liberties & Rule of Law (Intersociety). In a letter to the Anambra State Director... Read more
