Investigation into the Jan. 16, oil spill near Funiwa offshore facilities off the Atlantic coast,near Bayelsa has taken regulators and environmentalists beyond Chevron facilities to nearby Auntie Julie platform.   The team, which on Jan. 23, visited communities affected by the oil leakage in Koluama in Southern Ijaw Local... Read more

Washington, DC – The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) condemns Iranian authorities’ mistreatment of religious prisoner of conscience Golrokh Ebrahimi Iraee in the wake of her transfer to Amol Prison on January 24. “USCIRF is appalled by Iran’s ceaseless persecution of Golrokh Iraee, a peaceful activist who has been isolated... Read more

Bashorun Askia Ogieh, Managing Direct0r, Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission (DESOPADEC), says Governor Ifeanyi Okowa does not interfere in the running of the commission. He stated this on Wednesday at the PTI Conference Centre, Effurun, near Warri, at the official launch and matriculation ceremony for 160 trainees... Read more

A former Theatre Commander of operation Lafiya Dole, Major General Ibrahim Attahiru, who was removed by the Nigerian Army High Command for failing to stop Boko Haram in 2017, has been elevated to the position of Chief of Army Staff by the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.). The... Read more

President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday appointed new Service Chiefs following the resignation of the former officers. Major-General Leo Irabor replaced General Abayomi Olonisakin as Chief of Defence Staff; Air Vice Marshal Isiaka Oladayo Amao replaced Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar as Chief of Air Staff; Rear Admiral Awwal Zubairu Gambo... Read more

A popular Yoruba rights activist, Sunday Adeyemo, well known as Sunday Igboho, has narrated his encounter with a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu. He spoke on Tuesday in an Instagram Live Chat with popular journalist, Dele Momodu. According to Igboho, he met Tinubu during the build-up... Read more

Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike has commended President Muhammadu Buhari for appointing new Service Chiefs for the country. Governor, who made this known on Tuesday in a statement by Pastor Paulinus Nsirim, the Commissioner for Information and Communications, noted that although the appointments came late, the President should... Read more

A community leader at Sampou, in Bayelsa Chief Ashane Usukoromo Monday applauded the massive rehabilitation of the railways by the federal government and called for spread across the federation.   He said that an integrated transport system where different modes of transport complimented each other as currently being implemented... Read more

The house of Sunday Adeyemi ‘Igboho’, the man at the centre of the recent eviction controversy in Oyo State, was razed in the early hours of Tuesday. Confirming the incident to Channels Television, the Oyo State Police Command said it received a distress call about the fire around 6... Read more

After long months ignoring calls by a large proportion of the public to dismiss Nigeria’s top military personnel over gross insecurity blamed on their poor performance across the country, President Muhammadu Buhari has sacked the top military brass he appointed for national security. The decision to sack the military... Read more