A former commissioner for Information, during the administration of Peter Obi in Anambra State, Mr Joe-Martins Uzodike has said that the incumbent Willie Obiano administration lied by claiming that it inherited 96 roads from his predecessor when in actual fact he inherited only 52 roads. Uzodike was reacting to... Read more
The Nigerian Agip Oil Company (NAOC) on Wednesday explained that it responded within 24 hours after a pipeline blast by vandals at its Taylor Creek oilfields in Aug 2019 and shut the facility to curtail further degradation of the environment. The explanation is coming on the heels of... Read more
Fasoranti, Clarke, Nwodo, 13 others lead legal charge. Elders and leaders of the major socio-cultural groups from Nigeria’s Southern and Middle-belt geographicallgeographical blocs have sued the country’s President, Muhammadu Buhari and Attorney-General, Abubakar Malami for N50 billion over the unbridled policy of marginalisation of the people of the... Read more
At Ihube … the victim of the latest Fulani herdsmen bloodletting in Nigeria. Photo credit: John Okoye.Fulani herdsmen who fled after killing an indigene of Ihube in the Okigwe area of Imo State, Nigeria have been apprehended and handed over to the police by members of the community who... Read more
By Prof. Usman Yusuf 1. Today, I write about the worsening and never ending insecurity and blood letting in Northern Nigeria (Arewa) and the deafening silence of many of us who should speak up loud and clearly on behalf of our voiceless people. 2. In Islam, it is the... Read more
Eni, the Italian parent company of Nigerian Agip Oil Company (NAOC) has denied abdicating its duties in the remediation of the adverse impact of its oil export terminal located in Brass, Bayelsa. The position followed a letter by the oil firm’s host community in Bayelsa, seeking expedited action on... Read more
As herdsmen attacks persist in Delta State, the state government has changed its policy of waiting for the Federal Government and federal security agencies to bring to book suspected herdsmen kidnappers and other criminals abducting and terrorising citizens of the state, invading and chasing farmers away from their farms.... Read more
The Association of South East Town Unions (ASETU) has petitioned Secretary General of the United Nations, Ban-kin Moon and the President of the United States of America, Donald Trump, over what they called grand plot to annex Igboland by people from northern Nigeria. ASETU said the bizarre smuggling of... Read more
Bayelsa government on Tuesday said that there was no going back at the ongoing demolition of illegal structures in pursuit of its urban renewal project. It will be recalled that the Bayelsa COVID-19 Task Force Chaired by Gov Douye Diri had in the past weeks demolished illegal structures at... Read more
Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF) an environmental NGO has expressed divergent views with the National Oil Spills Detection and Response Agency (NOSDRA) on the causes of massive death of fishes littering the coast. NOSDRA) had on May 14 said that findings on the dead fishes on the Atlantic... Read more
