At least three staff members of the Lower Niger River Basin Development Authority in Kwara State were hospitalised yesterday following a violent disruption of activities at the agency’s headquarters in Ilorin. The incident allegedly involved members of the National Union of Agricultural and Allied Employees (NUAAE), reports Daily Trust. The pr...
•Oil pollution in Ogoniland Various claims and reports have continued to trail the ongoing cleanup exercise in Ogoni land, Rivers State, being handled by the Hydrocarbon Pollution Remediation Project (HYPREP) . Former Vice President Yemi Osibanjo, in June 2016, flagged off the remediation exercise, reports The Guardian. However, on May 25, 202...
•House of Representatives The joint sitting of the House of Representatives Committee on Finance and the Committee on National Planning has expressed dismay over their discovery of N88 billion as personnel expenditure in 2023 by the Nigeria Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission (NUPRC). The committee therefore directed the NUPRC to provide ...

