Director-General of the Rivers State Investment Promotion Agency (RSIPA), Dr Chamberlain Peterside, has warned the BRACED states against allowing the economic carpet shift below their feet again. BRACED is an acronym representing the six states in the South-South geopolitical zone of Nigeria that formed a regional economic development bloc....
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Troops of 6 Division, Nigerian Army, in close synergy with other security agencies, have continued to dominate the operational landscape, effectively denying criminal elements freedom of action across the Niger Delta Region (NDR). The Army authority disclosed this in a post issued on Monday via its X handle @NigeriaArmyInfo...
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has taken a decisive step to strengthen its internal structure with the constitution of Caretaker Committees for its Enugu, Delta and Rivers State chapters. The decision was approved by the National Working Committee (NWC) of the party on behalf of the National Executive Committee (NEC),...
Team Delta on Thursday emerged overall winner of the 22nd National Sports Festival (NSF) in Ogun, securing 122 gold, 96 silver and 105 bronze medals. This gave Delta a total of 323 medals, placing them at the top of the final medals table at the conclusion of the festival....
Team Delta has leapfrogged Team Bayelsa on the medals table at the ongoing National Sports Festival (NSF) in Ogun. Team Delta amassed 35 gold, 12 silver and 29 bronze, bringing the state’s total medals to 76. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the official medals table of...
Three days into the ongoing National Sports Festival (NSF) in Abeokuta, Bayelsa is leading the medals table with 12 gold, six silver and three bronze medals. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the official medals’ table released by the technical team of the NSF tagged ‘Gateway Games...
Nigerian Navy Ship (NNS) SOROH, operating under the Central Naval Command, has handed over three suspects to the Department of State Services (DSS) for illegal possession of firearms . The suspects were found to have also acted as unauthorised security escort aboard the Motor Fishing Trawler (MFT) Olokun VIII....
The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) South-South Zonal Working Committee (ZWC) has appointed caretaker committees to oversee the affairs of the party in Bayelsa and Edo states for three months. This followed the approval for the setting up of caretaker committees for both states by the ZWC at a meeting...
The Nigerian Army has uncovered 11 new bunkering facilities and made some seizures during a six-day operation conducted in Akwa Ibom, Bayelsa, Delta and Rivers. Spokesman for the Nigerian Army 6 Division, Port Harcourt, Lt.-Col. Danjuma Danjuma, made this known in a statement on Monday in Port Harcourt. He...
Bayelsa and Delta are in a two horse race to determine the state that will win the maiden edition of the Niger Delta Sports Festival (NDSF). The News Agency of Nigeria(NAN) reports that the medal table released on Monday morning by the Main Organising Committee in Uyo, Akwa Ibom,...
Troops of Nigerian Army have destroyed 23 illegal artisanal refineries and apprehended 25 suspected operators during an anti-bunkering operation conducted in Bayelsa, Delta, and Rivers. Lt.-Col. Danjuma Danjuma spokesman for the Nigerian Army 6 Division in Port Harcourt, disclosed this development in a statement issued on Monday. He revealed...
The Minister of Works, David Umahi, has set an April 2025 deadline for the completion of the ongoing dualisation of the East-West Road, Section II-II, from Ahoada to Kaiama in Rivers and Bayelsa States. Umahi made the announcement in a statement signed by Mohammed Ahmed, Director of Press and...
The Nigerian Army has uncovered 20 illegal refining sites and apprehended 11 suspected operators of the facilities during ongoing raids in Akwa Ibom, Bayelsa, Delta, and Rivers states. Spokesman for the Nigerian Army 6 Division in Port Harcourt, Lt.-Col. Danjuma Danjuma, announced on Monday that troops had also dismantled...
The Kebbi State Ministry of Health in collaboration with State Primary Health Care Development Agency (PHCDA), has inaugurated rollout of malaria vaccination for children from five to 11 months in the state. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the programme is being launched simultaneously in Bayelsa. NAN...
There was commotion at the Supreme Court on Friday as the apex court delivers judgment in the governorship election disputes in Bayelsa, Imo and Kogi. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the court had fixed today, Aug. 23 for the final judgment of the Nov. 11, 2023...
President Bola Tinubu has said plans are underway to complete the rehabilitation of the East West Road connecting Bayelsa, Rivers and Akwa Ibom. Tinubu said this on Friday at the end of a three-day Stakeholders Summit, organised by the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) in Port Harcourt. Represented...
The Nigerian Navy Forward Operating Base (FOB) FORMOSO in Brass, Bayelsa, has destroyed 10 illegal refinery sites in Nembe Local Government Area of Bayelsa. The FOB also destroyed a speedboat and seized 100,000 litres of suspected stolen crude oil. The Commanding Officer, FOB FORMOSO, Capt. Ifeanyichukwu...
Aiteo Eastern Exploration and Production Company (AEEPCO), operator of the Nembe Oilfields has resumed the production and export facility off Bayelsa coastline operation, shut due to oil spill from a loading mishap. Aiteo announced the resumption in a statement by its Spokesman, Mr Mathew Ndianabasi on Saturday The...
By BARBARA KALU, Port-Harcourt – President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has inaugurated the N24 billion Ogbia-Nembe Road in Bayelsa State jointly executed by the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, and the Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC). Speaking at the commissioning ceremony, the President, who was represented by the Minister...
Multiple explosions were on Tuesday reported at the gas processing plant operated by the Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria (SPDC) at Gbarain, Yenagoa Local Government Area of Bayelsa. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the gas plant feeds the Nigerian Liquified Natural Gas (NLNG)...