The Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, Dr. Samuel Ogbuku, says the Commission has completed some key development projects and will embark on massive commissioning across the Niger Delta region in 2024. Speaking during an interactive session with journalists at the Commission’s Headquarters in Port Harcourt, Ogbuku, Ogbuku said that the major projects to be inaugurated included the 132/33kv electricity sub-station in Okitipupa, Ondo State and the Ogbia-Nembe Road, executed through a partnership between the NDDC and Shell Petroleum Development Company, SPDC. Ogbuku said that all NDDC stakeholders, including the International Oil Companies, IOCs, traditional rulers, civil…
Author: Khadijah Olowode
The First lady of Nigeria, Senator Oluremi Tinubu has advised expectant mothers to prioritize their health and seek to know their HIV/AIDS status. She said this will enable them prevent mother-to-child transmission of the disease and help they themselves stay healthy. The First Lady was speaking at the National Hospital, Abuja where she welcomed the First Baby of the Year 2024 in the Federal Capital Territory. She appealed to well meaning Nigerians to join forces with Government to adopt hospitals and wards to improve the healthcare delivery in the country as government alone cannot do it. “I urge nursing…
The Minister of Solid Minerals Development, Dr. Dele Alake has declared that the mining sector will experience a major leap in 2024 towards contributing substantially to the nation’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP). In his new year goodwill message to Nigerians, Alake reiterated that President Bola Tinubu’s vision of diversifying the economy through renewed focus on solid minerals is on course, asserting that reforms in the sector will yield tremendous results in the new year. “I felicitate Nigerians for making it through 2023 into the year 2024. It is pertinent that we collectively look forward to the horizon of the new…
By Olatide Ojo Report of many frauds Involving Ahmad Salihijo Ahmad at Rural Electrification Agency, REA In the last four years of Ahmad Salihijo Ahmad’s reign as the Managing Director of Rural Electrification Agency (REA), the latter has suffered several losses, money wise to the light-fingered helmsman. Salihijo through various underhand means appropriated to himself several monies belonging to REA, and a unit in the agency, Nigeria Electrification Project (NEP). NEP is known to attract loans from development banks including World Bank and African Development Bank, and under Salihijo’s watch to the tune of a billion dollar for power generation…
The United Nations Secretary-General, António Guterres has said that the UN will keep rallying the world for peace, sustainable development and human rights in 2024, calling on everyone to make the new year, “a year of building trust and hope in all that we can accomplish together.” Guterres, in a video message released on the eve of 2024, reflected on the tumultuous events of the past year while urgently calling for unity and concerted efforts to overcome the pressing challenges that lie ahead. He noted that the year 2023 was marked by unprecedented suffering, escalating violence, and climate-related crises, and…
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have intercepted at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, a Qatar-based businessman, Agu Amobi, and one other, Uchegbu Obi with consignments of psychoactive substances. A statement on Sunday by the spokesman of the anti-narcotics agency, Femi Babafemi said while Amobi was arrested last Saturday at the departure point of Terminal 2 of the MMIA on his way to Doha, Qatar on a Qatar Airways flight, Obi was taken into custody same day following the seizure of a consignment of 72,000 pills of tramadol 225mg, which he attempted shipping to Kano on…
Dear Compatriots, It gives me immense joy to welcome each and everyone of you – young and old- to this brand new year 2024. We must lift up our hands to Almighty God, in gratitude, for his grace and benevolence to our country and our lives in the year 2023 that has just gone by. Though the past year was a very challenging one, it was eventful in so many ways. For our country, it was a transition year that saw a peaceful, orderly and successful transfer of power from one administration to another, marking yet another remarkable step in…
The Kogi State Governor-elect, Alh. Ahmed Usman Ododo has assured Nigerians and Kogites that 2024 is their year of redemption. Ododo who expressed the assurance in a message to Kogites to mark the New Year, said 2024 is the year when the hope of Nigerians will be renewed. He said the decision of the President to implement the fuel subsidy removal policy was the best in the interest of the nation’s economy, applauding Mr President for his efforts at rebounding the nation’s oil refineries. “We have gone through the sacrifice period of the oil subsidy removal. From the second quarter…
Feigning concern for Nigerian workers, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), in a statement of December 30, 2023, criticized the All Progressives Congress (APC)-led administration over “delayed” payment of December salaries to federal workers. The rather flimsy statement also attempted to portray the administration as undermining the economic well being of Nigerians. For the record, the December salaries of federal workers have been paid. But that is a fact that poses an insurmountable challenge for decrepit PDP to ascertain or verify. The Party would rather flaunt its folly, incompetence, envy and confusion in a statement that is disgracefully bereft of reason…
The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Sustainable Development Goals (SSAP-SDGs), Princess Adejoke Orelope-Adefulire, has emphasized the critical need for peaceful coexistence among Nigerians, alongside intensified efforts and expedited actions in the implementation of the SDGs in Nigeria. The Presidential Aide made this call in a statement marking the commencement of the year 2024 and the ninth year in the implementation of the SDGs. With only seven years remaining to achieve the ambitious global goals, Princess Adejoke Orelope-Adefulire underscored the urgency for collaborative and concerted endeavours to ensure that Nigeria fulfills its commitment to the Sustainable Development Goals. Recognizing…