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PIB: 3 per cent to host communities an insult – Group
The three per cent approved for host communities in the July 1, 2021 passed Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) has been described as an insult.National President, Centre for Human Rights and Anti-Corruption Crusade (CHURAC), Cleric E.…
A’Ibom youths concerned over N82bn crude spill compensation
Tension is brewing in the oil communities of Ibeno Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State, following recent Federal High court judgment, which awarded about N82 billion damages against Mobil Producing Nigeria (MPN) Unlimited and its…
Kwale-Beneku bridge ready by February 2022 —Okowa
The Kwale-Beneku bridge project across Ase River and linking communities in Ndokwa West and Ndokwa East local government areas of Delta State will be ready in February 2022.Governor Ifeanyi Okowa disclosed this shortly after inspecting…
Imoke commends Okowa as he inaugurates Alihame/Agbor-Nta/Oki road
Apart from various road and other infrastructure projects, the Okowa administration has inaugurated a new secondary school transformed from a dilapidated primary school in Boji Boji area of Agbor and upgraded a college of education to a…
Food crisis: Gov Emmanuel disburses N1.2bn to cassava farmers
Worried by the prevailing food crisis in Akwa Ibom State, the administration of Governor Udom Emmanuel, has intervened with the disbursement of more than N1.2 billion as interest free loans to about 2,000 cassava farmers.The revolving…
O. B. Lulu-Briggs Foundation, AWLA Partnership Records Gains, Tackles Rivers Assembly Member On…
The partnership between one of Nigeria’s frontline humanitarian support organizations, the O. B. Lulu-Briggs Foundation, and the African Women Lawyers Association (AWLA) on the protection of the rights of widows in Nigeria has recorded…
Insurgency: Institute begins nationwide awareness campaign
Director-General of the Institute for Peace and Conflict Resolution (IPCR), Professor Bakut Tswah Bakut, has said the agency has commenced a nationwide awareness campaign to curtail the ongoing insurgency, kidnapping, banditry, killings,…
JTF, amnesty office renew ties to restore peace in N’Delta
The Joint Task Force (JTF), Operation Delta Safe, has renewed its working relationship with the Interim Administrator, Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP), Colonel Milland Dixon Dikio (retd), in a bid to promote lasting peace in the Niger…
Ex-envoy, CSO, others petition FG, seek equity in new NDDC board
Former Nigerian Ambassador to Russia and Belarus, Chief Assam Assam, has joined other stakeholders from Eket ethnic nationality in Akwa Ibom State, to petition the Federal Government, seeking equity, fairness and justice in the composition…
Complete Omadino-Ughoton-Adagbrassa road, others, Okowa told
Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Delta State Council, has urged Governor Ifeanyi Okowa to ensure the completion of ongoing projects across the state.The union made the plea among others in a communiqué read after a congress in Asaba.…