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The Senate has directed its Committees on Petroleum Downstream, Gas Resources and Petroleum Upstream to investigate the immediate and remote causes of the Lagos pipeline explosion to avoid reoccurrence. They are to turn in their report in two weeks. The ...

Akwa Ibom State Governor, Udom Emmanuel has asked the Federal Government to review the state of facilities at all correctional centres in the country and reform them to become more decent for human habitation. He made the call at the ...

The Ijaw Youth Council (IYC) and a coalition of Niger Delta activists have canvassed the appointment of person without proper knowledge of the region to head the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP). They lamented that the appointment of persons from the ...

The Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has charged Akwa Ibom people to always show greater interest and commitment in initiation, monitoring and execution of projects in their communities. State Director of ICPC, Shola Shodipo, gave the ...

Bayelsa State Governor Douye Diri has visited President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, where he sought Federal Government’s partnership towards ensuring adequate security in the state. Diri, who initially declined to speak to newsmen after the visit he ...

The Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF) and other civil society groups (CSOs) have demanded a ban on genetically modified organisms (GMO) foods in the country and repeal of the National Biosafety Management Agency (NBMA) Act. The groups, which comprised farmers, ...

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has declared that the Federal Government’s vision of taking 10 million Nigerians out of poverty every year for the next 10 years is on course and actualise owing to the “quantum leap in human capacity development ...

Okomu Oil Palm Company has alleged that the “illegal acts by some local communities” which ‘prevented’ its workers from undertaking the planned clearing of the company’s Extension 1 boundaries in anticipation of the arrival of Edo State Geographic Information Service ...

Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike has lamented that the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) is being manipulated to deny the region key projects it deserves. He also decried the way and manner in which management of the Presidential Amnesty Programme ...

WaterAid Nigeria has restated that handwashing with soap and water can reduce the risk of people contracting Coronavirus, now recognised as a public health emergency of global concern. But the organisation raised concern that figures from the WHO/UNICEF 2019 Joint ...