Thursday, 18th April 2024
To guardian.ng
Search

Niger Delta

6 Oct 2023
I had four assignments to accomplish in Warri. I completed three and decided to leave after reaching the conviction that what I achieved was much.
27 Sep 2023
Copycat private military companies, polar opposites to Dokubo’s, have mushroomed in the creeks from where they launch their criminal activities.
26 Sep 2023
Arms Race is not synonymous with arms proliferation. You need rival armed groups amassing weapons with hostile intents to have arms race. A private Military Company is euphemism for a mercenary group.
18 Sep 2023
Minister of Niger Delta Development, Abubakar Momoh, and Cross River State Governor, Prince Bassey Otu, have identified lack of access roads as a major setback to the growth and development of the oil rich region.
15 Sep 2023
The Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Mr Abubakar Momoh, has solicited the cooperation of State Governors from the region to speed up development of the Niger Delta region.
10 Sep 2023
Among the top 10 countries that produce oil, including the United Arab Emirates, the United States of America, Saudi Arabia, Canada, etc., there are no frequent reports of oil spills compared to Nigeria where oil spills occur increasingly.
4 Sep 2023
Sir: A new wave of an eye-catching development is sweeping across the Niger Delta, Nigeria’s oil rich region. 
29 Aug 2023
Women leaders of Ijaw ethnic nationalities and critical stakeholders in the Niger Delta region have lamented that despite their contributions in the struggle for justice, equity and development in the region, they have been neglected and relegated.
25 Aug 2023
• Minister vows to revisit NDDC’s forensic audit report Minister of Niger Delta Development, Abubakar Momoh, has unveiled his agenda for the region, vowing to revolutionise quality and standard of infrastructure for the people. Momoh, who stated this in Abuja during his inaugural press briefing, tagged: 'Special Development Agenda For The Niger Delta,' insisted that…
15 Aug 2023
.As Niger Delta women demand inclusion  Stakeholders in oil host communities in Niger Delta have decried the delay in the implementation of the Petroleum Industry Act (PIA) 2021, two years after it was passed into law by former President Muhammadu Buhari, saying most communities are not included in the whole process. This was as women…
14 Aug 2023
A professor of Sociology from the University of Benin, Kingsley Omoyibo, has challenged stakeholders and leaders in oil communities of Niger Delta to explore humanistic methods in resolving persistent conflicts, saying it is more results-oriented.
13 Aug 2023
*Alleges Employment Of Over 80 Persons From Kogi Workers in the Presidential Amnesty Office have raised alarm over the deployment of indigenes of the Niger Delta from the Presidential Amnesty Office by the Interim Administrator, Maj Gen Barry Ndiomu (Retd). Some of the workers who spoke confidentially linked the current move to the alleged leakage…

Latest

NOW
The Acting Vice Chancellor of Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH), Ogbomoso, Oyo State, Prof. Rasaq Olatunde Kalilu, yesterday, disclosed that 99 students of the institution would graduate in the First Class category during its 16th convocation ceremony scheduled for next week.
10 mins ago
The Paramount Ruler of Iwoland, Oba Abdulrasheed Adewale Akanbi, has called on the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to carry out thorough public awareness campaigns on naira abuse before resorting to the arrest of people.
23 mins ago
The ongoing trial of a Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) Pastor, Emmanuel Orekoya for alleged defilement of his 17-year-old daughter was stalled yesterday following absence of prosecution witnesses.
35 mins ago
The 23rd Senior African Athletics Championship scheduled for Douala, Cameroon in June, may offer Nigerian relay teams and some individual athletes the opportunity to qualify for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.
36 mins ago
Nigerian budding footballers, who want to combine their sport career with education, now have the opportunity as English Championship side, Coventry City Football Club, has provided that chance for the skilful lads.
40 mins ago
Greenfield Leasing Services Limited’s Executive Vice Chairman, Jacob Erhabor, has won the maiden CEOs Golf Tournament sponsored by African Reinsurance Corporation at the golf section of Ikoyi Club 1938.
1 hour ago
Over 1,500 athletes representing 13 companies in the oil and gas sector will participate in the 19th Nigeria Oil and Gas Industry Games beginning in Abuja on April 21. The event ends on April 27.
1 hour ago
Failure of the last administration to put its money where its mouth is has stalled the rail rehabilitation work on the eastern corridor, three years after its flag-off.   Findings showed that the project, estimated to cost $3.2 billion, has become a hard sell to investors.
1 hour ago
Ahead of today’s National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting of the main opposition’s Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), governors elected on the party’s platform yesterday rose from a meeting and declared that they won’t discuss change of leadership for the party.
1 hour ago
An angry mob of travellers, yesterday, lynched personnel of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) in Kaita Local Council of Katsina State.