Philip Jakpor
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A group, Renevlyn Development Initiative (RDI), has described the death of 13 young miners in Bassa Local Council of Plateau State, barely a week after a mine collapse led to over 30 casualties in a border area between Taraba and Adamawa states
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RENEVLYN Development Initiative (RDI) has called on the Federal and Delta State governments as well as relevant agencies to compel the Nigeria Gas Infrastructure Company (NGIC) to mobilise immediately to clamp the gas leak and black oil spewing into the farmlands and river of a Delta community.
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“The Tobacco and Data Journalism Training is premised on the need for more robust and educative reports on tobacco control in the media,” the Executive Director of Renevlyn Development Initiative (RDI), Philip Jakpor, stated in his address to welcome newsmen to a virtual Tobacco and Data Journalism Training.
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