•Ighorhiohwunu Aghogho A Warri-based child rights advocate, Comrade Ighorhiohwunu Aghogho, has opposed an announcement by the Minister of Education, Dr. Tunji Alausa, abolishing the 18-year minimum age requirement for admission to tertiary institutions in Nigeria. In a signed statement released to journalists in Warri today, Aghogho expressed ...
The Nigerian Shippers’ Council (NSC) has highlighted safety concerns and insecurity along the nation’s waterways as key factors hindering ships from docking in the Niger Delta region. To address this issue, the NSC has called for enhanced security patrols on the waterways, particularly in the Niger Delta, to restore confidence and ensure the s...
•Port Harcourt refinery The Niger Delta Youth Network (NDYN) has expressed outrage over the repeated delays in commencing fuel production at the Port Harcourt refinery, despite numerous promises. The refinery, with a capacity of 210,000 barrels per day, was expected to start refining 60,000 barrels of crude oil daily after reaching mechanical ...
•Protesters in Rivers State Niger Delta states, yesterday, took part in the first day of the #Endbadgovernance protest, with protesters in Akwa Ibom State on the platform of #Good Governance Renaissance lamenting being tired of bad governance with Nigerian political leaders showing no concern about the sufferings of the masses. This came as an...
All 19 crew onboard a drilling platform, Britania U, have been rescued following a fire incident that gutted the drilling platform at Ajakpa Field, (OML 90), 10.77 nautical miles South of Forcadoes Terminal in Delta, Nigeria. Disclosing this in a statement today, the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) said the agency c...
•Niger Delta students App developers Between October 15 2023 and October 19 this year, the four female students from Nigeria who developed an android application named AgriConnect, meant to deal with hunger issues in the country, will be attending this year’s World Technovation Girls Challenge holding in Silicon Valley, California, in the Unit...
•Tinubu Niger Delta youths under the aegis of Ijaw Youth Council (IYC) have called on President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to as a matter of urgency intervene in the alleged mismanagement of funds in the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC). In a statement issued yesterday by the IYC spokesman, Comrade Bedford Berefa, he stated that the […]...
•Niger Delta ex-militants Communities in the Niger Delta have threatened to cripple oil production in the region if the federal government continues to remain adamant over the growing clamour for the release of the detained Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu. Kanu has remained in a solitary confinement at the [&h...
•Senator Okpebholo and militants Ahead of the September governorship election in Edo State, the Reformed Niger Delta Avengers (RNDA), a Niger Delta militant group, has endorsed the All Progressive Congress (APC) candidate, Senator Monday Okpebholo, and assured him of victory. Major General Johnmark Ezonebi (AKA Obama), leader of RNDA, issued a...
•Troops The Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff AssociaÂtion 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...

