•Troops The Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria, (PENGASSAN), has urged President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to deploy more military personnel to the Niger Delta, to halt crude oil theft, and generate more revenue for the country. Comrade Festus Osifo President of PENGASSAN, made the call on the sidelines of the National Exec...
A group, Niger Delta Ethnic Nationalities Youth Leaders, has promised to assist in finding the killers of 17 soldiers in Okuama community in Delta State. Spokesperson of the group, Collins Idowu, who addressed journalists yesterday, in Abuja, sympathised with the victims’ families. “Firstly, we express our deepest condolences to the families, ...
•Tinubu Oil workers have urged President Bola Tinubu to relocate military chiefs to the Niger Delta to halt crude oil theft and generate more revenue for the country. The workers, under the aegis of Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN), urged the Tinubu administration to pay more attention to the region [&h...
•Clark A sociopolitical group in the Niger Delta region, Niger Delta Youth Council, has expressed disgust over what it described as “senseless invasion and raid” of the Kiagbodo country home of Chief Edwin Clark, by military troops in search of arms, demandinf for “unreserved apology and compensation” for the trauma caused the former federal M...
Monarchs, retired security officers, clerics, and activists in the Niger Delta, yesterday, urged the federal government to direct the Army to withdraw its siege to the embattled Okuama community in Ughelli South Local Government Area, Delta State to avert losses of more lives and douse tension in the oil region. They also asked the criminals [...
The multi-billion naira Baro Inland Port in Agaie Local Government Area of Niger State, is yet to commence operation five years after it was inaugurated by former President Muhammadu Buhari. A gigantic mobile harbour crane overlooks the mass of water surging from the Niger River in front of the Baro Inland Port. It is one […]
•Tinubu President Bola Tinubu has appointed Dr. Dennis Otuaro as Administrator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP). Otuaro will be replacing Maj. Gen. Barry Ndiomu (Rtd), who had served as Interim Administrator of the programme since September 2022. Otuaro’s appointment was announced yesterday evening in a statement by Special Adviser ...
Frequent changes in the Board of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) have been responsible for the slow pace of development in the oil-rich region, it was learnt yesterday. This was contained in a communique issued at the end of a two-day NDDC Board and Management Retreat with the theme: “Renewed hope: A new era […]