Chief Ovie Omo-Agege, the Delta All Progressives Congress(APC) governorship candidate, has pledged to restore the lost glory of the Ijaw people in the state, if given the mandate in 2023 poll. Omo-Agege said this on Wednesday in Burutu, headquaters of Burutu Local Government Area(LGA) during a campaign rally. He...
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By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has asked Rivers State Governor, Nyesom and other governors to disclose the spending of the oil derivation refunds of N625bn recently paid to them by the Federal Government. SERAP’s Deputy Director, Kolawole Oluwadare, in a statement issued...
The Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) on Wednesday intensified its campaigns across the Niger Delta to end cultism and drug abuse among youths as part of efforts to sustain peace in the region. The Acting Managing Director, NDDC, Emmanuel Audu-Ohwavborua, led officials of the commission to Yenagoa, where they...
The Federal Government says it has achieved remediation of 635 hectares of contaminated shorelines covering about 2,196 intertidal in Ogoniland, Rivers State. The Minister of Environment, Mr Mohammed Abdullahi, spoke at a “Scorecard, PMB-Administration” event, organised by the Ministry of Information and Culture, on Wednesday in Abuja. Abdullah said...
The National Security Adviser (NSA), retired Maj.-Gen. Babagana Monguno, on Tuesday, inaugurated 11 man Special Investigative Panel on Oil Theft/Losses in Nigeria. The panel, which is chaired by the Interim Administrator, Presidential Amnesty Programme, retired Maj.-Gen. Barry Ndiomu, has seasoned administrators and retired top military and police officers as...
By JOY ADARA, Abuja – The Nigeria Navy has debunked reports making the rounds that it indicted the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) Limited of exaggerating figures of crude oil theft in the Niger Delta region. The Navy Director of Information, Commodore, AO Ayo-Vauhhan, stated this in a statement...
Chevron Nigeria Ltd. (CNL) says 1.4 billion dollars financing has been secured to fund the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC)/CNL Joint Venture (JV) infill drilling project from 2022 to 2026. CNL’s, General Manager, Policy, Government and Public Affairs, Mr Esimaje Brikinn made the disclosure in a statement on Friday....
Presidency says nine oil-producing states have so far received a total of N625.43 billion 13 percent oil derivation, subsidy and SURE-P refunds from the Federation Account between 1999 and 2021. According to a statement on Friday in Abuja by Malam Garba Shehu, the president’s media aide, the affected states...
The Strategic Communication Committee (SCC) of the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP) on Sunday stated that external and internal auditors recently uncovered a massive payroll fraud in PAP. The SCC Chairman, an ex-agitator, Mr Nature Kieghe, said at a news conference in Yenagoa that the discovery showed an individual was...
Bayelsa State Governor, Douye Diri has appealed to the Federal Government to jettison any plan to end the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP), saying the programme is yet to achieve its objectives. Diri insisted that PAP is yet to achieve its mandate, saying even the disarmament phase of the scheme...
The Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, says he will address the infrastructure deficit in the riverine communities in Delta. Tinubu gave the assurance on Friday while addressing the people of Gbaramatu Kingdom in Warri South-West Local Government area of Delta. The former Governor of...
The Senate has endorsed the N48billion oil pipeline surveillance contract by the Federal Government to Mr Government Ekpemupolo, alias Tompolo, a former Niger Delta militant leader. Sen.Albert Akpan, the Chairman, Senate Committee on Petroleum (Upstream) said this on Tuesday in Abuja, when he spoke with newsmen shortly after presenting...
The Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, says his government will further re-activate the multi-billion dollars Gas Revolution Industrial Park Project. Tinubu gave the assurance on Saturday at the APC rally held at the Warri Township Stadium, Delta. Addressing the mammoth crowd, Tinubu said: “Our...
Gong by information at the public domain, a Warri , Delta state based Newspaper, GbaramatuVoice, in furtherance of its Niger Delta Economic Discourse Series, will on Tuesday, November 29, 2022 by 10am, at the BON Hotel, Warri, Delta state, hold a focused group discussion that centers on two separate...
The Defence Headquarters said the troops of Operation Delta Safe and other subsidiary operations discovered and destroyed 44 illegal refining sites in the Niger Delta region in two weeks. The Director, Defence Media Operations, Maj.-Gen. Musa Danmadami, made this known at a bid-weekly news briefing on the operations of...
The memory of the late Nigerian environmental activist, Ken Saro Wiwa, came alive again on Friday at COP27 in Egypt as Oilwatch group celebrated him, 27 years after his execution. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the Oilwatch group include Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF), Nigeria;...
An energy consultant, Ademola Adigun, says fingerprinting Nigerian crude supported with international advocacy will permanently address frequent crude oil theft in the country. Adigun said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Thursday in Lagos. According to him, fingerprinting is a process that gives...
The House of Representatives ad hoc committee investigating the structure and accountability of the Joint Venture (JV) businesses and production sharing contracts (PSCS) of the Nigerian Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has accused oil companies of tax evasion. Rep. Abubakar Fulata, the Chairman of the committee said this in Abuja on...
Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Chief Timipre Sylva says Nigeria loses at least 700,000 barrels of crude oil to thieves daily. He made the assertion at the 2002 graduation of students of Petroleum Training Institute (PTI) Effurun, Delta on Saturday. The minister who was represented by Ambassador Gabriel...
It is a well established axiom that leadership thrives where leaders demonstrate in right proportions a mixture of sympathy and empathy. While sympathy helps a leader understand how his followers feel, empathy on its part assists such leaders feel the way followers feel, enters into their lives and participates...