The President Muhammadu Buhari administration can rebuild confidence in its anti-corruption crusade by removing the veil of secrecy in the conduct of government business and respecting the right to information and free speech, the Corporate Accountability and Public Participation Africa ...
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Stakeholders berate ‘politicisation’ of Ogoni clean-up process
Worried by the slow pace of work at clean-up sites in Ogoni, Rivers State, stakeholders have decried the ‘politicisation’ of the exercise, which has dragged for five years. Urging the Federal Government to focus on the project, they called for ...
Read More »NIS Boss Tasks Officers to Focus On National Causes In Service
Comptroller General of Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), Muhammad Babandede, has advised officers of the agency to focus on national development, while in service. In a statement issued in Abuja and made available to newsmen, Public Relations Officer of the NIS, ...
Read More »Ndume Canvasses Part Time Status For Lawmakers Over COVID-19 As Aborisade Flays Call To Slash FG Workers Salaries
Former Senate majority leader, Mohammed Ali Ndume, has canvassed the immediate adoption of part time legislative status for National Assembly members, insisting that all overhead costs and salaries of public servants with the exception of low salary earners be slashed. ...
Read More »HURIWA Tasks Buhari On Herdsmen, Boko Haram’s Killing Of Christians
The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) has tasked President Muhammadu Buhari to end the genocide and attacks on Christians and farmers by armed herdsmen and Boko Haram terrorists, which have snowballed in the last five years. It faulted ...
Read More »Piracy: Nigeria Hands Over Suspected Vessel, Crew To Ghana
Gulf Of Guinea No Longer Safe Haven For Pirates, Says Jamoh Nigeria Very Professional In Handling Case, Korean Envoy Declares Nigeria has handed over the fishing vessel Marine 707 suspected to be carrying out illegal activities in the Gulf of ...
Read More »Firms In $1.2m Solar Deal To Power Niger Delta Communities
Renewvia Energy Corporation, a global solar developer and All On, a Nigerian off-grid impact investor have announced a partnership to electrify rural communities un-served by conventional utilities in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria. The agreement includes a commitment of ...
Read More »Traditional Rulers Were Carried Along Before Abacha Stashed Money In Foreign Accounts, Says Al-Mustapha,
Former Chief Security Officer (CSO) to the late Military Head of State, Major Hamza Al-Mustspha has declared that the funds being recovered as General Sani Abacha’s loot were kept in foreign banks with the knowledge of traditional rulers. Al-Mustapha said ...
Read More »Aswani Police Station Gives Palliatives To Over 1,000 Persons
The Divisional Police Officer (DPO) of Aswani Police Station, Isolo, Oyin Frances recently changed the saying that ‘’Police are always taking without giving back to society” when she provided palliatives for more than 1,000 people in the community where she ...
Read More »COVID-19: RSG Withdraws Charges Against Caverton Helicopter Pilots
The Rivers State Government through the Honourable Attorney-General has withdrawn and discontinued the two separate charges ( PMC/532C/2020 and PMC/533C/2020) preferred against the two pilots of Caverton Helicopters Ltd and the 10 passengers on board before the Port Harcourt Chief ...
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