Shell Nigeria Exploration and Production Company (SNEPCo) delivered a total of 763 million barrels of oil from the Bonga field between first production in 2005 and 2017, while at the same expanding the field with further drilling of wells in Bonga Phases 2 and 3 and through a subsea... Read more

The Chairman of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, Governing Board, Senator Victor Ndoma-Egba, has emphasised the need for adequate funding of university education in the country. Senator Ndoma-Egba spoke during the 31st Convocation Ceremony of the University of Calabar, UNICAL, where he was conferred with Doctor of Laws,... Read more

The Nigeria Agip Oil Company (NAOC) on Saturday says the boost in crude Nigeria’s oil production to about 25 million barrels per day is due to improvements in security in the Niger Delta region in the past two years. The oil firm applauded the Joint military force deployed to... Read more

By Strive Masiyiwa When I first arrived in Nigeria to set up the country’s first GSM mobile network, Econet Wireless Nigeria (now Airtel Nigeria), I had to serve as the company’s interim CEO for about six months, until we appointed someone substantive. This meant I practically lived in Nigeria... Read more

The pioneer post graduate students at the Marine and Offshore Engineering Centre of Excellence have commenced studies at Rivers State University, Port Harcourt, involving 18-month academic and field work that will lead to the award of Masters degrees in Marine Engineering (Power Plants), Naval Architecture and Offshore and Subsea... Read more

The Total Group in Nigeria which comprise of Total Nigeria Plc and Total Upstream Companies and her partners (NNPC, NAPIMS, SAPETRO, Petrobras & CCNOC) joined the rest of the world to mark this year’s World Malaria Day. The determination of Total and her partners to eradicate malaria in Nigeria... Read more

There was an attempt on the life of the Deputy Governor of Imo State, Prince Eze Madumere, Senator Uwajumogu, on Saturday, by dangerous armed looking thugs numbering over 200 but for the intervention of gallant armed mobile police officers and other security agents. The incident took place at the Secretariat... Read more

Port Harcourt–The Nigerian Union of Journalists (NUJ) Rivers Council has commended the Rivers Government’s efforts to revive Rison Palms, a moribund agro-based industry now managed by Siat, a Brussels-based agro-industrialists. The union made the commendation on Friday in Port Harcourt when the Olalekan Ige-led Press week committee visited the... Read more

Being an address by Nnimmo Bassey, Director, Health of Mother Earth Foundation At the Stakeholders’ Dialogue on Building Trust and Common Ground for a Successful Clean-Up held on 3rd May 2018 at Port Harcourt, Nigeria Pollution is the number one killer in the world today. It is deadlier than... Read more

The prevalence of HIV/AIDS in Bayelsa has dropped from 9.1 per cent in 2010 to 3.8 per cent in 2016, the state Commissioner for Health, Prof. Ebitimi Etebu, has said. He said this on Thursday in Yenagoa while speaking at a programme to end a two-year project for the... Read more