Bayelsa government has applauded President Muhammad Buhari for approving the implementation of the UNEP report on clean up of Ogoni land. Buhari on August 5 approved the constitution of Board of Trustees for the Ogoni Trust Fund and the Hydrocarbon Pollution Restoration Project (HYPREP) governing council. The President... Read more

  The Bayelsa government on Sunday condoled with the Chief of Army Staff. Maj.- Gen. Tukur Buratai and the families of the five slain security officers by unknown gunmen over the weekend in the State. It will be recalled that Bayelsa Police Command on Saturday confirmed that an attack... Read more

Diana Okon-Effiong, Calabar The Court of Appeal in Calabar has dismissed an interlocutory appeal by the Peoples Democratic Party challenging the Ntional Assembly election petition tribunal’s refusal to allow them delete statements on oath of the petitioner’s witnesses in the suit filed by Senator Bassey Otu against Senator Gershom... Read more

Washington, DC – Nigeria-USA Chamber of Commerce board of directors on Friday August 7, 2015 paid a courtesy call to the Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Nigeria to the United States, Prof Ade Adefuye at the Nigeria Embassy, Washington DC. The board visited the ambassador to share the... Read more

  From: Diana Okon-Effiong, Calabar   The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) in Calabar on Thursday received more than 455 illegal immigrants repatriated from Gabon to Nigeria on charges that they did not possess valid travelling documents while in Gabon.   Cross River Comptroller of NIS, Mrs Funke Adeuyi, disclosed... Read more

Ebonyi state government has pledged to partner UNICEF in the training of teachers to ensure quality education in the state. Governor Dave Umahi,made this known in Abakaliki when he received in audience, the country representative of UNICEF,Nigeria and ECOWAS,Ms.Jean Gough, on Monday. Governor Umahi, who restated that his administration... Read more

L- R. Eloghosa Iyamu, a student of the University of Benin, former Adviser to the President on Petroleum, DrEmmanuel Egbogah inspecting a car built by students of the institution for the Shell Eco-marathon competition at the 2015 conference and exhibition of the Society of Engineers in Lagos.  Read more

The Ebonyi State Government plans to survey and register all farmlands in the state to end the incidence of government taking over lands from farmers without paying compensation. Making the plan known on Monday in Abakaliki during a state colloquium for stakeholders on ways of moving the agricultural sector forward, the state governor, Chief Dave Umahi,... Read more

From: Diana Okon-Effiong, Calabar   The National and State Houses of Assembly Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Calabar has accepted the forensic report submitted by the examiner on the suits instituted by Senator  Bassey Otu and Mr Dominic Aqua Edem, of the Labour Party in Cross River . The... Read more

From: Arodiegwu Eziukwu, Yenogoa A lingering face off between Shell and its host communities at Adibawa oil fields has hampered oil spill response for a leak that occurred on July 12, further endangering the environment. Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) said that the oil leakage from its oil fields... Read more