…Inaugurates 13-classroom block in Enugu The Deputy Minority Leader of the 9th House of Representatives, Chief Toby Okechukwu has given a grant of about N10million for the Senior School Certificate Examination (SSCE) registration of 590 students in his constituency. Okechukwu is representing Aninri/Awgu/Oji River Federal Constituency. The lawmaker,... Read more
A Niger Delta youth leader, Mr Kenedy Tonjo-West, on Monday urged the Chief of Staff to the President, Abba Kyari, to intervene in the lingering leadership crisis in the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC). Tonjo-West said the call to Kyari to intervene in the impasse between the legislators and... Read more
Members of Aghoro 1, community, Ekeremor Local Government Area in Bayelsa on Friday berated the Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria (SPDC) for short-changing them. They criticised the oil firm for arbitrarily determining the compensation figure for the May 17, 2018 spill in the area. The oil spill had... Read more
The Acting Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, Gbene Dr Joi Nunieh, has charged former agitators in the Niger Delta to join the campaign to promote a safe and clean Niger Delta region. Dr Nunieh made the call yesterday when a group of ex-agitators from the... Read more
No fewer than 90 pupils from Nigeria’s six geo-political zones have been awarded full-board six-year secondary school scholarships administered by the Shell Nigeria Exploration and Production Company (SNEPCo) in the third set of the NNPC/SNEPCo National Cradle-to-Career (NC2C) programme designed to give top quality education to bright but indigent... Read more
The Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, has provided maternal delivery kits and cholera vaccines to ameliorate the pains of displaced inhabitants of flood-ravaged communities in Ahoada West Local Government Area of Rivers State. Speaking at the flag-off of the distribution of the medical kits and cholera vaccination at the... Read more
Rivers: NGO lauds Eleme Monarch over Intervention in Human Capital Dev., Agric., Education, Healthcare
Nigeria November 14, 2019
From Dianabasi Effiong A US-based Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) has commended a traditional ruler in Rivers for his intervention in human capital development, agriculture, education and healthcare within and outside the state. The group, known as the Nigerian Initiative for Accelerated Development in Agriculture and Education and Healthcare (NIADAEH), led... Read more
From Dianabasi Effiong The Chief Judge (CJ) of Rivers, Justice Adama Iyayi-Lamikanra, has released unconditionally, no less than 43 inmates when she visited the Ahoada and Port Harcourt Custodial Centres in the State. Their release was made known in a statement in Port Harcourt by the Deputy Superintendent of... Read more
In addition to efforts of the Nigeria Police Force and Lagos state Police command to further strengthen Community Policing and ensure maximum safety of lives and properties in the state, the State Criminal Investigation Department, SCID, Lagos, has on Monday trained police officers on community engagement and security services.... Read more
The Supreme Court on Wednesday dismissed the appeal challenging President Muhammadu Buhari’s victory at the Feb.23 general election. Justice Tanko Mohammad, the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), led six other justices to unanimously dismiss the appeal for lacking in merit. News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the other... Read more
