‘Don’t withdraw troops from N/Delta’
The South South Reawakening Group (SSRG) has urged the Federal Government to ignore calls for the withdrawal of troops from…
Fadama iii: Ayade assures of prompt release of counterpart fund
Cross River State governor, Professor Ben Ayade, has assured the Federal Government and Donor partners of its prompt release of…
Oba’s coronation: Ogiamien family pledges loyalty to Benin Palace
The Ogiamien family of the Benin kingdom is willing to collaborate with the throne of the Oba of Benin and…
50,000 carnival tourists to visit Calasvegas city in Calabar
CROSS River State Commissioner for New Cities Development, Mr George Ekpungu, has disclosed that over 50,000 tourists from around the…
Mind how you grant amnesty to criminals, group cautions govs
WORRIED by the manner amnesty is being granted in some states, the Centre for Peace and Environmental Justice (CEPEJ) has…
Teaching hospitals need adequate funding to survive —UCTH CMD
IT is not the best of times for the University of Calabar Teaching Hospital (UCTH). The health institution is currently…
LG boss charges corps members to spend service year on worthwhile ventures
THE executive chairman, Ukwuani Local Government Area, Mrs Benedicta Ndudi Osakunih-Izuegbu, has charged corps members serving in the council area…
Delta State govt clarifies revenue issues in DELSUTH
THE Delta State government, at the weekend, clarified some issues of internally generated revenue pertaining to affairs at the Delta…
Lafarge Africa offers free eye surgery to 229 people in Cross River
AS part of its corporate social responsibility to host communities, Lafarge Africa Plc has offered free cataract surgeries to 229…
Monarch, indigenes count losses as oil leak devastates Bayelsa community
The people of Kalaba community in Bayelsa have continued to count their losses over negative impact of oil spillage as…
Cross River to shut down unlicensed driving schools
The Cross River State government says it would shut down all unlicensed driving schools operating in the state. State Commissioner…
Nigerian Human Rights Commission
Worried by the unabating gas flaring in the Niger Delta region, Kokodiagbene community in Warri South West Local Government Area…
Group seeks plebiscite on Bakassi
A group, under the aegis of Association of Bakassi Aborigines (ABA), has called on the Federal Government and the United…
Bring back my husband, detained ex-militant’s wife begs JTF
MRS Beauty Francis Muturu, a nursing mother and wife of a detained ex-militant leader, Mr Francis Muturu, a.k.a General Aboy,…
Calabar-Itu road: Ayade commends NDDC for intervention
CROSS River State governor, Professor Ben Ayade, has commended the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) for its intervention work on…
Don’t redeploy our DPO, Warri residents beg IGP
MIFFED by the alleged surreptitious plan to redeploy Divisional Police Officer (DPO) ‘B Division’, CSP Anietie Eyoh, residents of Okere-Urhobo…
State creation: Delta celebrates 25yrs with common sense
IF there is anything Delta State has celebrated at the 25th anniversary of its creation, it is peace and unity…
Corps member distributes drugs, mosquito nets to IDPs in Yenagoa
A Youth Corps member serving in Yenagoa has brought succour to the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camp at the Samson…
DESTMA tackles menace of tankers drivers in Warri
IN a bid to reduce traffic gridlock on the high way as well as loss of lives and encourage vast…
Our roads not good, communities tell Edo guber aspirants
Ikhuse, Oah, Ivbioddohen, Okeigho Ivbieleke, Avbioghola, Ikpeyan, Iloje and some other communities all belong to the Okpuje/Ilueha sub-clan in Owan…
