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The Deputy President of the Senate, Ovie Omo-Agege has commended Belema Oil Producing Ltd. for heeding the call by the Federal Government that all oil producing companies in Nigeria relocate their headquarters to the Niger Delta. In a letter of commendation addressed to the company, Omo-Agege hailed the company for …

The Federal High Court in Abuja on Tuesday upheld the Rivers State’s entitlement to N502m monthly allocation accruing from the Oil Mining Lease 112. Justice Taiwo Taiwo, in a judgment, ordered the Revenue Mobilisation, Allocation and Fiscal Commission, the Attorney-General of the Federation and the Accountant-General of the Federation, to …

Captured suspected kidnapper, Hamisu Bala Wadume, has explained how he escaped from the operatives of Intelligence Response Team on August 6. Wadume escaped from the custody of IRT operatives when they came under attack from soldiers attached to Battalion 93, Takum, Taraba State, as they conveyed the kidnap suspect from …

President Muhammadu Buhari is presiding over the second day of the retreat for ministers designate coordinated by the Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation in Abuja. But as it happened on the first day of the retreat on Monday, the Head of Civil Service of the …

The Delta state government has assured the people of Asaba-Ase-Abari community that contractors will returned to site immediately after the rains, blaming the slow pace of construction work on roads across the state on the rains. The Commissioner for Works, Chief James Augoye stated this while briefing newsmen in Asaba. …

Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege, has condemned the violent attack on former Deputy President of the Senate in the eighth senate, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, by some members of the proscribed Indigenous Peoples of Biafra. The attack took place in Nuremberg, Germany. Omo-Agege said this in a statement …

The United States Department of State has said that Nigeria made no significant progress in fiscal transparency. Fiscal transparency refers to the publication of information on how governments raise, spend, and manage public resources. More specifically, it means publication of high quality information on how governments raise taxes, borrow, spend, …

A front line Gubernatorial hopeful in the forthcoming 2023 general elections in Delta State, Engr. Omovigho Edafeghwara has called on Deltans, especially those living in flood-prone areas to desist from the habit of blocking water canals with structures, buildings and waste. Edafeghwara stated this when Members of *Emerging Dream Of …

Ahead the 2023 General elections, a Group known as “Emerging Dream Of A Positive Delta” has called on Engr. Omovigho Edafeghwara to make himself available to serve the good people of Delta State as Governor come 2023. This was contained in a communique signed by its Director, Efe Oghorobada and …

A group sympathetic to the Peoples Democratic Party, the Association of Concerned Bayelsa Professionals, has accused some aspirants of the PDP in Bayelsa State of planning to cause mayhem in the state ahead of the party’s primary on September 3. The group, led by Chief Jasper Timiebi, in a statement …