The Government of Akwa Ibom State on Saturday declared seven-day mourning period beginning from December 26 for Otuekong Idongesit Nkanga, who died on December 24 from complications arising from COVID-19. This is contained in a statement signed by the Secretary to the State Government, Dr Emmanuel Ekuwem, and made... Read more

SECRETARY of Maris Trust Council (MTC), Mr Fidelis Egugbo, has said that personalities billed to participate in the March 31, 2021 edition of Maris annual public service lecture were the same persons scheduled to participate in the 2020 edition which was truncated by COVID-19 pandemic. Egugbo, who is also... Read more

*Says National Assembly panels sound like broken record Bemoaning what it called “the unprecedented grand scale of  corruption, pervasive unethical procurement practices in most federal ministries and agencies of government”, the nation’s prominent Civil Rights Advocacy group-: Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) has wondered why the country’s... Read more

The Bayelsa government says it is pursuing the revalidation of the licence for the Atala marginal oilfields on Oil Mining Lease (OML) 46 earlier revoked by the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR).   Mr Ayiba Duba, Bayelsa Commisioner for Information and Orientation said on Monday that the state government... Read more

The Civil Rights Advocacy group-: Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) has condemned in the strongest possible terms, the violent kidnap by armed kidnappers, of the newly installed Catholic Auxiliary Bishop of Owerri Roman Catholic Archdiocese,  His Eminence,  Rt. Reverend Dr. Moses Chikwe in Owerri just as the... Read more

Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike says the completion of the Opobo axis of the Ogoni-Andoni-Opobo Unity road, which will attract development to Opobo kingdom, is top priority to his administration. Governor Wike gave the assurance at the ceremony to mark the 150 years anniversary of the establishment of... Read more

The Federal Government, through the National Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure (NASENI), has signed an agreement on spare parts production with Innoson Vehicle Company. The deal is to commercialise automobile research results and prototypes in NASENI to finished products. Under the agreement, Innoson Vehicle Manufacturing Company will take-up... Read more

Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike, has warned  that Nigeria cannot make progress if the judiciary fails to assert itself. The governor has described as worrisome a situation whereby judges feel so intimidated to discharge their constitutional duties.     Governor Wike stated this shortly after the swearing in... Read more

The Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Limited (SPDC) has dismissed the purported takeover of the Kidney Island asset of the SPDC Joint Venture in Port Harcourt by the Rivers State Government which claimed to have acquired the asset through a court auction process. In a swift reaction, the... Read more