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The Niger Delta Rights Advocates (NDRA) has cautioned the National Assembly against succumbing to blackmail in probing illegal spending of N40 billion by the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC). NDRA Spokesman, Darlington Nwauju, noted that since the news of investigating ...

AN advocacy group, the Corporate Accountability and Public Participation Africa (CAPPA) has faulted reports by the Lagos State government that most communities in the state have been enjoying improved water supply since the COVID-19 pandemic began, describing the claim as ...

Say PMI cannot disguise its lies Amid a global health crisis occasioned by COVID-19, Philip Morris International (PMI) will gather shareholders on Wednesday, May 6, 2020 (today) in a virtual meeting to applaud its continued efforts to rebrand itself as ...

The Western Marine Command of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has handed over palliative materials worth #40.892,00 to the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Disaster Management. Handing over the items to the representative of the ministry, Mrs Oluwakemi Adedeji, the ...

Following a review of the implication of COVlD-19 on healthcare delivery in the country, the federal government has approved a Special Hazard and Inducement Allowance of 50 per cent of consolidated basic salary for all health workers in all Federal ...

The Federal Government has blamed the rising cases of community transmission of coronavirus disease in the country on non-compliance with lockdown directives, medical advice, unauthorised treatment of patients in private homes and unaccredited facilities. Speaking at the Presidential Task Force ...

Civil society organisations and other critical stakeholders have deplored the absence of a coronavirus test centre in Delta State amid the pervasiveness of the deadly disease nationwide. In a statement after the launch of their situation room to monitor and ...

The Pan Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF) and Ijaw Youth Council (IYC) have deplored the existence of only one coronavirus test centre in the entire South-South geopolitical zone that had no fewer than 50 confirmed cases of the dreaded disease. PÀNDEF, ...

Journalists in Abia State have received some food items as palliatives to cushion the effect of Coronavirus pandemic from an older colleague, Mr. James Umeh, an indigene of the state under the platform of his Unubiko Foundation. The items, which ...

A group, Association of Ebonyi State Indigenes in The Diaspora (AESID) has berated Ebonyi State Governor Dave Umahi for clamping down on journalists in the state. In a statement by its Chairman, Ambassador Pascal Oluchukwu, the group charged leadership of ...