Tears, sorrow as fire guts Ogbe-Ijoh market
ALTHOUGH of lesser magnitude when compared to the past, sorrow and tears flowed uncontrolled last Tuesday afternoon when fire gutted…
Okowa calls for increase in agric extension officers
GOVERNOR Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State has called on the need to increase activities of agricultural extension service officers to…
FIDA, UDA call for justice for Chikamso Victory
THE International Federation of Female Lawyers FIDA and the United Action for Democracy UAD have called for justice for eight-year…
Flood: Don faults urban planning as A/Ibom seeks N32bn World Bank aid
W ITH the perennial flood ravaging parts of Akwa Ibom State, the Director in-charge at the Centre for Wetlands and…
Patients groan as primary healthcare collapses in A’Ibom
Akwa Ibom State government has taken some far-reaching measures to rescue the collapsing healthcare infrastructure in public hospitals in the…
Militants’ quit notice to Yorubas, northerners idle talk —Kokori, Onuesoke
Former secretary general of the National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG), Chief Frank Kokori, has described, as…
FG told to tackle Niger Delta problems
The plethora issues militating against the development of the oil and gas rich region has drawn the err of an…
Aba Festival excites visitors as Obaseki harps on unity in diversity
Igarra, the administrative headquarters of Akoko-Edo Local Government Area of Edo State l, was the destination on Friday for lovers…
Belema community promises not to vacate Shell flow station
THE people of Belema community, an indigenous oil producing community in Akukuro-Toru Local Government Area, have promised not to vacate…
Brass community decries trawler’s attacks on fishermen in Bayelsa
THE people of Opu-Okunmbiri community in Brass Local Government Area of Bayelsa State have regretted the daily unwarranted attacks by…
N/Delta group denounces restructuring, advocates good governance
THE South South Reawakening Group (SSRG) has advocated good governance ahead restructuring as the only panacea to problems plaguing the…
Okowa blasts APC over Paris club refund, projects
DELTA State government has lampooned the opposition, All Progressive Congress (APC) and other critics who repeatedly questioned how it spent…
Delta traditional rulers express faith in corporate existence of Nigeria
THE Delta State Traditional Rulers Council has reaffirmed its commitment to the continued unity, stability and corporate existence of the…
CMD raises the alarm over rising cases of breast cancer in A/Ibom
THE Chief Medical Director (CMD) of the University of Uyo Teaching Hospital (UUTH), Professor Etet Peters, has expressed worry over…
Bayelsa strategises to rescue communities from flooding
AGAINST the backdrop of flood ravaging some states and parts of the country, outside the major 2012 flood with the…
Delta govt removes 530 staff members from payroll, recovers N12.319bn
Delta state government has taken a stern measure on the over 530 staff who falsified their retirement age and other…
10 years after, FRCN Asaba station yet to take off
Ten years after the completion of the Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria, Charity FM Asaba, Delta state, the station is…
Ijaw youth decry oil blocs allotted to politicians outside Niger Delta
Ijaw youths have decried the allotment of oil blocs to politicians and businessmen outside the Niger Delta region; and have…
No substitute for restructuring, Niger Delta elders, group insist
The Coordinator, Niger Delta Elders and Leaders Forum, and member of the Niger Delta Dialogue Group, Chief Mike Loyibo, has…
Blowing up pipelines won’t stop FG’s access to oil, gas, Briggs tells militants
ACE activist, Annko Briggs, has warned militants in the Niger Delta against blowing up of oil and gas pipelines, saying…
