The nine governors of the Niger Delta states have kicked against the composition of the board of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) as announced by the federal government on Wednesday. The governors met last night in Abuja to assess the new board appointment approved by President Muhammadu Buhari and …
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Domestic airlines operating in Nigeria recorded 16,429 cases of delayed flights between January and June 2019 according to figures released by the Consumer Protection Department of Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA). A document issued by the department and obtained by the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Thursday in Lagos, …
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Some aggrieved members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) on the platform of Ikpoba-Okha Liberation Movement, have called for s new party leadership in Ikpoba-Okha Local Government Area of Edo. The group announced this in a communiqué signed by its conveners, Mr Osarobo Idahosa. The group alleged that most political …
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Gov. Godwin Obaseki of Edo has met with aggrieved All Progressives Congress (APC) aspirants who participated in the party’s 2019 primary election. Addressing the aspirants at government house in Benin, the governor said that the meeting was inline with the recommendation of the Theophilus Okoh Committee set up to reconcile …
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The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has received another batch of 153 stranded Nigerians from Libya. The Director-General of NEMA, Mr Mustapha Maihajja, represented by Mr Slaku Lugard, an official of the agency, received the returnees on Wednesday in Lagos. Maihajja said that the Nigerians arrived in the Cargo Wing …
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Deputy President of the Senate, Sen.Ovie Omo-Agege, has congratulated the people of Delta on the 28th anniversary of the creation of the state. Omo-Agege in a statement on Tuesday in Abuja by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Mr Yomi Odunuga, commended the people for sustaining prevailing peace in …
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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says it will distribute 49,819 Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) in Bayelsa so as not to disfranchise some people during the Nov. 16 gubernatorial poll. Mr Monday Udoh, INEC’s Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) in Bayelsa, said this in Yenagoa on Tuesday, during an election stakeholders …
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Nigeria Agip Oil Company(NAOC), an affiliate of Italian oil giant, Eni, says it has discovered a significant quantity of gas and condensate in the Obiafu-Obrikom fields in Oil Mining Lease, (OML) 61, onshore Niger Delta. In a statement in Abuja on Tuesday, the company said the gas and condensates were …
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As the people of Delta mark the 28th anniversary of the creation of the state, the Speaker of the State Assembly, Chief Sheriff Oborevwori, has urged the residents to continue to live peacefully with one another. In his congratulatory message in Asaba to mark the anniversary at Tuesday’s plenary of …
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Dr Bessie Eziechila, the Consultant Paediatrician with Federal Medical Centre (FMC) Jabi, says two years is the normal duration for breastfeeding for the advantage of both child and mother. Eziechila told News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja on Tuesday that “two years is the complete, adequate period and ideal …
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