Gov Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa has urged the people of Bayelsa to keep faith with the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as they go to the polls on Nov 16 to elect his successor. Dickson who made the call in a radio broadcast on Sunday night monitored by in Yenagoa... Read more
Nigeria’s premier and leading financial services provider, First Bank of Nigeria Limited has announced that the FirstBank Lagos Amateur Golf Championship scheduled to Tee-Off on Friday, 15 November 2019 is now listed amongst the golf tournaments in the World Amateur Golf Ranking (WAGR). The WAGR is offered by... Read more
. As U.S. State Department Intensifies Efforts to Free Levinson WASHINGTON, DC – Months of efforts by United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) Commissioner Andy Khawaja to determine the whereabouts of missing and presumed imprisoned U.S. citizen Robert Levinson, who disappeared in Iran in 2007, have finally... Read more
Amidst growing crackdowns on internet fraudsters popularly called Yahoo-yahoo boys in Nigeria by the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC), the President/CEO, World Stage Limited, Mr. Segun Adeleye has advocated that government in collaboration with the private sector should set up innovation hubs in all the country’s 774 local... Read more
A broad spectrum of political, business and social heavyweights are expected to storm the Main Hall of Sheraton Hotel & Towers, Ikeja, Lagos, for the 7th News Express Anniversary Lecture holding this morning, Thursday, November 14, 2019. The event starts by 11:00 a.m. and is expected to last not... Read more
WASHINGTON, DC – The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) commends the U.S. House of Representatives’ passage of H.Res. 296 on October 29, 2019 to officially recognize and commemorate the Armenian Genocide. The resolution affirms U.S. recognition of the atrocities committed against Armenians by the Ottoman Empire between 1915 and... Read more
NDDC has collapsed – Gov. Wike
FeaturedSpecial Reports November 8, 2019
. As NDDC’s Acting Executive Director of Projects, Ojougboh says a sitting Nigerian senator is handling 300 of the commission’s project. From Dianabasi Effiong Gov. Nyesom Wike has declared that the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) has collapsed with lose of capacity to deliver development to... Read more
From Dianabasi Effiong Sen. Magnus Abe, former Senator representing Rivers South-East in the National Assembly, has appealed to those calling for the removal of Sen. Godswill Akpabio, the Minister, Niger Delta Affairs (MNDA), to tread with caution. He made the call on Tuesday in Port Harcourt while speaking with... Read more
From Dianabasi Effiong The Chief Judge (CJ) of Rivers, Justice Adama Iyayi-Lamikanra, has released unconditionally, no less than 43 inmates when she visited the Ahoada and Port Harcourt Custodial Centres in the State. Their release was made known in a statement in Port Harcourt by the Deputy Superintendent of... Read more
November 8, 2019. New York, NY. – The International Women’s Entrepreneurial Challenge Foundation (IWEC) has announced the appointment of Ibukun Awosika to their Board of Directors as its New President. Awosika is the Chairman of First Bank of Nigeria Limited, Nigeria’s Premier and Leading financial services provider. Mrs.... Read more