From Dianabasi Effiong, Calabar An Environmentalist, Dr Odigha Odigha says Nigeria can lose more than $1bn on development grants from The United Nations Programme on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (UN-REDD). Odigha, a sustainable development campaigner, gave the warning in an interactive session with journalists in Calabar... Read more

  The Central Naval Command (CNC) of Nigerian Navy has urged Niger Delta Communities to seize the window of ongoing dialogue to restore peace to the region. Rear Admiral Muhammed Garuba, Flag Officer Commanding (FOC), CNC made the call on Saturday at the flag off of a free medical... Read more

King Bubaraye Dakolo, Paramount Ruler of Ekpetiama community in Yenagoa, Bayelsa has blamed widespread pollution of the Niger Delta environment to weak regulatory framework. Dakolo expressed the view in his palace on Saturday during an advocacy visit by environmental rights group, Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN).... Read more

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo on Tuesday lauded the efforts of the Minister of Finance, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun in steering the economy during such a difficult period, saying time will soon prove her right.Obasanjo, who spoke at the ongoing National Council on Finance and Economic Development (NACOFED) in Abeokuta, Ogun... Read more

A new batch of 60 children from the Niger Delta has been awarded the special secondary school scholarship of The Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) Joint Venture, Cradle to Career covering tuition and all other bills for six years in four of the topmost private secondary schools in Port... Read more

    From Diana Okon-Effiong, Calabar   No fewer than 253, 000 signatories including forest dependent communities in Cross River state and the international community have called on Nigeria’s Federal Government to compel the state government to cancel the revocation of the traditional rights of occupancy of all the... Read more

From Dianabasi Effiong, Calabar   The Cross River State Basic Education Board, (SUBEB) says it would spend N7.5 billion for projects under the 2012-2015 Universal Basic Education Commission, (UBEC) Matching Grant.   The Executive Chairman of the Board, Dr Stephen Odey, stated this in Calabar at a briefing with... Read more

The  N350 million Lassa Fever Virology Diagnostic and Treatment Centre built by  the Ebonyi State Government has been inaugurated by the Nigeria’s Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole. Adewole, who was in company with his Agriculture counterpart, Chief Audu, Ogbeh and Ebonyi State Governor David Umahi,  during the ceremony,... Read more

  The  Nigerian Army has confirmed death of four Soldiers in a boat mishap within Bayelsa waterways saying that the remains of the four soldiers were yet to be found, but residents say two bodies have so far been salvaged.     Four soldiers drowned during the ongoing military... Read more