The Chief of Defence Staff, Gen. Christopher Musa, says plans are underway for a security summit aimed at tackling challenges associated with securing oil and gas installations in the country especially pipelines. Musa, who disclosed this on Thursday in Abuja when he visited Sen. Heineken Lokpobiri, Minister...
Niger Delta
The Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP) on Thursday traced delays experienced by some beneficiaries in receiving their stipends for March to a glitch from the commercial bank. This is contained in a statement by Mr Igoniko Oduma, Special Assistant, Media, to the Administrator, Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP). “Following repeated...
This piece was inspired by a recent statement credited to Barr Chiedu Ebie, Chairman of Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), made to a delegation of Concerned Agbor Citizens (CAC), who were in his Agbor residence to congratulate him on his appointment as well as thank him for the...
The Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), plans to acquire tractors and other modern farming equipment to enhance its agriculture initiatives in the Niger Delta, an official has said. The commission’s Executive Director, Projects, Mr Victor Antai, revealed this while inspecting farming equipment produced by Bobtrack Limited, in Port...
The Senate has mandated its committees on Army, Defence, Air Force and Navy to investigate the March 14 killing of 16 Nigerian Army personnel in Okuama Community of Delta. This followed a point of order raised by Sen. Abdulaziz Yar’adua (APC- Katsina) during Tuesday’s plenary. The motion was...
The Chairman, Senate Committee on Defence, Ahmad Lawan, has said the killing of military personnel in Okuoma community in Delta on March 14, is an assault on security and stability of the Niger Delta region. Lawan made his position known in a statement in Abuja on Tuesday. He...
By BARBARA KALU, Port Harcourt – A media group in the Niger Delta has explained that it picked the Mayor of Housing, My-ACE China, as the highest award in business and investment because of the man’s track records in wooing investors to come to the oil region. The group,...
The Interim Administrator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP), retired Maj.- Gen. Barry Ndiomu, has urged the Federal Government to consider making the programme a social intervention programme for Niger-Delta region. Ndiomu made the appeal on Wednesday while receiving members of the House of Representatives Committee on Niger...
Splash of fishes on the surface of the river, up and deep down again to eat from the offerings, birds perched on the dining of the gods and eat from the delicacies set by the high priest before Oporoza water front, same way God and gods provide for...
Dr Government Ekpemupolo, alias Tompolo has pledged to do everything possible to ensure that the daily crude oil production output continued to be on the increase and boost the nation’s revenue. Tompolo, who is also a High Chief in Ijaw land, made the promise on Saturday evening...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – Nigeria Navy on Wednesday said its troops of Operation Delta Sanity have deactivated 41 illegal refining sites and impounded stolen crude oil and other products worth N8.6 billion in three weeks. The Director of Naval Information, Rear Adm. Adedotun Ayo-Vaughan, made this known in...
By JEROME-MARIO UTOMI, Asaba – A group of Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) and Media Professionals have appealed to His Excellency, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, President, Federal Republic of Nigeria, the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, NNPCL, to end gas flaring in Ubeji Community, a sleepy Satellite community located around the...
The House of Representatives Special Committee on Crude Oil Theft and Losses has appealed to the Nigerian Navy to assist it with relevant information to unravel those behind the perennial stealing of the country’s crude oil. Rep. Alhassan Ado Doguwa, the Chairman of the Committee, said in a...
The Joint Task Force, Operation Delta Safe (OPDS), have uncovered 14 sites illegally refining crude oil in Rivers, the Commander, Rear Adm. John Okeke, has said. Okeke who assumed duty on Thursday, said that the illegal refining site, located on Ataba Island, close to Bonny Island in Rivers,...
Residents of Abigborodo and Obagboro Communities in the Warri North Local Government Area (LGA) of Delta on Friday held a peaceful protest over the ownership of the Kuri Oil Field. They consequently called on both the state and federal governments to intervene before the situation escalates into a...
The Nigerian Security and Civil Defense Corps (NSCDC) has arrested eight suspects in its fight against oil thieves in Bayelsa State. The State Commandant of the corps, Mr Edenabu Eweka, said that the suspects were arrested in two separate operations within the last one week. Eweka also said...
The Nigeria Navy has handed over 11 artisans arrested on suspicion of planning to construct an illegal refinery to the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) in Port Harcourt on Monday. The Base Operations Officer of Nigeria Navy Ship (NNS) Pathfinder Port Harcourt, Cdr. Sa’id Kabir, handed...
Stakeholders led by the National Oil Spills Detection and Response Agency (NOSDRA) have visited Foropa, a fishing settlement along the Atlantic coastline in Bayelsa to assess the impact mystery spill reported on Jan. 3. The mystery spills refer to crude oil leaks from unknown sources where there are...
By PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – A foremost pressure group, “Niger Delta Media Activists” Group has exonerated the suspended Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Allegation, Dr. Betta Edu of any involvement in the reported allegation of diverted N585,198,500 funds of the National Social Investment Programme Agency (NSIPA). The...
The recent happenings (or developments) within the Niger Development Commission (NDDC) has further supported the age long leadership postulation that no organization was born with self-confidence. Rather, corporate ‘self-confidence’ is predicated on, and a function of successes and experience derived by the organization’s leadership from its operational environment....