Diana Okon-Effiong, Asaba   Delta State Governor, Dr Emmanuel Uduaghan on Wednesday presented a budget proposal of N327.68 for the 2015 fiscal year to the State House of Assembly. Uduaghan gave the breakdown of the budget asN161.6 billion for recurrent and N166.07 billion foe capital estimates, representing 49.32 per... Read more

  President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has emerged presidential candidate of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) with a total of 2812 votes. Jonathan also announced Vice President Namadi Sambo as his running mate for the 2015 presidential election. Following his emergence as presidential candidate of the PDP, Jonathan has challenged the... Read more

  The Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, has given assurances that all will be well at the end of the day during the next year’s general elections. This message of hope was given at a one-day sensitization workshop held in Port Harcourt at the weekend to kick-start a series... Read more

From: Diana Okon-Effiong, Calabar The Minister of Culture, Tourism and Orientation, Chief Edem Duke, has warned against utterances of doom for Nigeria and its President, Dr Goodluck Jonathan by some elder statesmen.   Recently an elder statesman, Dr. Tunji Braithwaite, predicted an interim administration in Nigeria to resolve critical... Read more

Diana Okon-Effiong, Calabar   Chief Clement Ebri, former Governor of Cross River, has advised political parties to dig deep and present experienced persons as their candidates because the state required no rookie governor in 2015.   Ebri gave the advice in an interview with journalists in Calabar Wednesday.  ... Read more

 The Joint Task Force (JTF) in the Niger Delta, Operation Pulo  Shield  has rescued Chief Augustine Ebikeme, traditional  ruler of Oporoma in Bayelsa abducted by gunmen on November 16.   Lt.-Col. Mustapha Anka, Spokesman of the task force told our correspondent on Tuesday that the monarch who was kidnapped at Kokori town... Read more

From: Njamanze Fidel  Dr. Ngozi Olejeme has been given a clean bill to contest the gubernatorial primary election of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Delta State. Olejeme was the first aspirant to be cleared by the screening committee sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State. Olejeme told newsmen shortly after going... Read more

Following his collection of expression of interest and nomination form to contest the 2015 Presidential election, Nigerians in the Diaspora yesterday congratulated President Goodluck Jonathan for heeding their earlier call on him to seek a second term as President of Nigeria One of the strong leading diaspora voices and... Read more

  Niger Delta youths under the umbrella of Diobu Progressive Foundation yesterday stormed the headquarters of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, to show solidarity with the management of the commission and also ask for more empowerment programmes to build their capacity. The youths, who danced to various solidarity songs, carried... Read more

By Agamnetochi Onoh An advocacy group of Nigerian-Americans, the New Generation Nigeria (NGN), has commended President Goodluck Jonathan for the success of the Federal Government’s Transformation Agenda, which it said was steadily laying the foundation for a New Nigeria in which no one is left out. The advocacy group... Read more