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
Thousands of Nigerians have taken to Twitter to express their determination to stage another protest over the ruling of the Lagos State Judicial Panel allowing the Lekki Concession Company to regain possession and reopen the Lekki tollgate. ARISE News had reported how five of the nine members of the Lagos Judicial... Read more
Days after relieving his discredited heads of military units for gross incompetence in the face of nationwide insecurity, President Muhammadu Buhari has forwarded their names as nominees to Nigeria’s Senate for approval as non-career ambassadors. The nomination of the military personnel was conveyed in a release from Abuja and... Read more
