Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike has stated that the Nigerian Army staged a coup against Rivers State during the 2019 General Elections, describing their actions as the worst in the nation’s democratic history. Addressing the Joint House of Representatives Committees on Army, Police, Human Rights and Justice at... Read more
President Muhammadu Buhari has written to the National Assembly informing it of his desire to extend his vacation. President Buhari who left Nigeria on 19 January was scheduled to return today and resume work tomorrow. But in a statement by Femi Adesina, the special adviser on the media, the president... Read more
By Fortune Abang The Embassy of Russia in Nigeria, has urged Nigerians to explore opportunity through application for the ongoing Russian Government Scholarship programme, to improve themselves educationally. Mr Ivan Lydkin, Press Attache of the Embassy, made the call on Wednesday in Abuja while addressing executive members of the... Read more
A group, the Niger/Delta) NDWatchdog Vanguard, says the drama in the Presidential Amnesty Office is yet to be over and claims that new revelations show a conspiracy between the current Director of Finance and some contractors; to remove and replace Prof. Charles Quaker Dokubo, the Coordinator of the programme.... Read more
. Victims Database Also Announced Washington, D.C. – The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) today released its 20th Annual Report documenting country conditions in, and analyzing and recommending U. S. policy initiatives toward, the world’s worst violators of religious freedom. USCIRF, as an independent, bi-partisan commission, advises the President, Congress... Read more
A newly-obtained batch of documents has further exposed how information minister Lai Mohammed was instrumental to the release of N2.5 billion in questionable payments to a private digital broadcast signal provider. The payments in May 2017 to Pinnacle Communications Limited by the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) have now been... Read more
The masterminds of the April 21 fire outbreak at OML 29 oilfields operated by Aiteo Eastern Exploration and Production were burnt to death. Rear Admiral Akinjidie Akinrinade, Commander of the Joint Task Force (JTF) deployed to the Niger Delta disclosed this shortly after inspecting the incident site at Awoba... Read more
The Acting Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, Professor Nelson Brambaifa, has assured that the Commission will continue to invest in the individual to secure and sustain development in the Niger Delta region and the country at large. Speaking at the launching of the report... Read more
The attention of the management of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, has been drawn to spurious media speculations which tended to give a political colouration to the ongoing impasse between the Rivers State Internal Revenue Service and the Commission. The NDDC as a responsible organisation is mindful of... Read more
Both the police and the British High Commission have identified the female foreign tourist killed, along with a Nigerian by suspected kidnappers in Kajuru, Kaduna state. She is Faye Mooney. Mooney, a British national, worked with Mercy Corps Nigeria in Lagos. Mooney, 29, from Manchester, travelled from Lagos to... Read more
