The Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Rivers State Council, has called for the immediate release of its member, Chidiebere Onyia, a reporter with the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA), Port Harcourt zonal office. Onyia, a nursing mother, was allegedly kidnapped by her abductors at a gunpoint onTuesday night along the... Read more
The Nigeria Oil and Gas Park project promoted by the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) in Emeyal 1, community in Ogbia Local Government Area of Bayelsa will be ready by fourth quarter of 2022. Mr Simbi Wabote, Executive Secretary of NCDMB who gave the timeline during... Read more
Unknown gunmen suspected to be oil thieves have killed a soldier and made away with his weapon in Apoi Community in Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of Bayelsa. It will be recalled that a similar fate befell a team of Nigeria Security and Civil Defense Corps (NSCDC) team... Read more
Rivers State Government has released the sum of N16. 6 billion for the upgradeof facilities at the Rivers Sate University (RSU). Announcing the release to journalists in Port Harcourt, Rivers State Commissioner for Information and Communications, Paulinus Nsirim said N9 billion of that sum will serve as take-off grant... Read more
NFF Mourns Ace Journalist, Olusegun Ogunjimi
News February 11, 2021
The Nigerian Football family has once more been thrown into deep mourning following the demise on Wednesday of ace sports journalist Olusegun Ogunjimi of The Nation newspapers stable. Highly professional, resourceful, humble and diligent, Ogunjimi was widely respected by colleagues, administrators and other stakeholders in the sector, and was a... Read more
Group Poised On Providing New Jobs For 1,000 Youths In Niger Delta
News February 10, 2021
The Movement for the Survival of the Izon Ethnic Nationality in the Niger Delta (MOSIEND), says its target is to empower no less than 1,000 young people to reduce unemployment in the Niger Delta Region. The group’s President, Mr Kennedy West, who made this known in an interactive session... Read more
FBN Holdings PLC (“FBNHoldings), Nigeria’s leading financial holdings company, has announced the appointments of Mr. Seni Adetu and Mrs. Juliet Anammah as Independent Non-Executive directors, while Mr. Otu Hughes has been appointed as a Non-Executive director. These appointments are subject to the approval of the Central Bank of Nigeria (“CBN”).... Read more
The Interim Administrator of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, Mr. Efiong Akwa, has called for a collaboration with the United States government in its efforts to produce a revised Regional Development Master Plan for the Niger Delta region. Akwa made the call when a delegation from the United... Read more
Nigeria’s northeastern city of Maiduguri remain without electricity after it was attacked by jihadi fighters in late January, as engineers from the Transmission Company of Nigeria continue to work tirelessly to restore electricity. Since militants of the Islamic State in the West African Province blew up a power grid on January... Read more
The apex Yoruba socio-political organisation, Afenifere on Monday urged the international community to intervene in the crisis between herdsmen and farmers in Nigeria to stem the tide. It also backed Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, who warned of an imminent civil war if the herdsmen crisis rocking the South-west... Read more
