The Minister for Niger Delta Development, Engr. Abubakar Momoh, has urged the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, to intensify its engagement with stakeholders in its efforts to develop the Niger Delta region. In a keynote address at the Two-Day Board and Management Retreat of the Niger Delta Development Commission, at the Four Point by Sheraton, Ikot Ekpene, Akwa Ibom State, Momoh stated that collaboration and partnership were paramount for the success of the NDDC and the ministry.The retreat, which attracted members of the National Assembly, past chairmen and managing directors of the NDDC directors from both the Ministry of Niger Delta…
Author: Olamide Obayemi
By Niyi Akinsiju There has been a growing concern over the dwindling roles of State Governors in the economic affairs of the country since the nation’s return to democracy in 1999. Many of them are on record to have shown limited knowledge of the concept of federalism. It appears that this confounding gubernatorial disposition to federalism is consequent upon an outright misunderstanding of the bolts and nuts undergirding the power relationships between the States and the Federal Government in a federal system or, perhaps, it may be that the Nigerian State Governors have, overtime, decidedly abandoned their roles as enshrined…
The Comptroller of the Nigeria Immigration Service, Rivers Marine Command, Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Bashir Mohammed Lawal has commended the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on its rising effectiveness in tackling the menace of economic and financial crimes and sought greater collaboration with it in the areas of information and intelligence sharing. He gave the commendation on Monday, February 12, 2024 while on a courtesy visit to the Port Harcourt Zonal Command of the EFCC. Lawal who newly assumed office as the Comptroller, NIS, Rivers Marine Command, appreciated the efforts of the EFCC while stressing the need for a…
The Enugu Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC has arraigned the Chairman, Onitsha/Odekpe Plastic Market Association, Obinna Calistus Okoli before Justice Nnamdi Dimgba of the Federal High Court, sitting in Awka, Anambra State for obtaining under false pretence to the tune of N6,700 million. Okoli was arraigned on Tuesday, February 13, 2024 alongside Onitsha/Odekpe Plastic Market Association on a two-count charge bordering on obtaining under false pretence to the tune of N6.700 million. One of the counts reads: “That you, Obinna Calistus Okoli (while being Chairman of Onitsha/Odekpe Plastic Market Association) and Onitsha/Odekpe Plastic Market Association…
The Department of Development Control of the Abuja Metropolitan Management Council has called on the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC to come to its aid in tackling the growing activities of land grabbers within the Federal Capital Territory. This call was made in Abuja on Thursday, 15 February, 2024 when the Director of the department, Mukhtar Usman Galadima led a delegation of other senior officials of the department to the Abuja corporate headquarters of the EFCC on a courtesy visit. “We are here specifically to seek for collaboration in view of the fact that the Commission is for the fight against economic and financial crimes. In recent times, there is an upsurge in…
By Abimbola Ogunnaike Sadiq Tafida, son of the Emir of Muri, Alhaji Abbas Njiddah Tafida, and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has emerged as the member-elect for House of Representatives to represent Jalingo/Yorro/Zing Federal Constituency in Taraba State. Tafida, 32, according to the Independent National electoral Commission(INEC), scored a total of 19,681 votes garnered from the rerun and supplementary polls held on Wednesday, 14 February, 2024. Announcing the results on Thursday, 15 February, 2024 the Returning Officer of INEC, a lecturer at the University of Wukari, Professor Olanrewaju Oladipo, said the PDP candidate scored a total of 19,681 votes to emerge…
By Abimbola Ogunnaike Two herbalists: Moses Abidemi and Oluwo Samuel Monday; as well as two priests of Cherubim and Seraphim Church Prophet Peter Oluwalolese and Prophet Jamiu Yusuf, are now cooling –off in one of the cells of the Ogun State Command over the killing of one Sulaimon Adijat, aged 35, for money ritual purposes. Also arrested and paraded for the act were: Akinwunmi Ifatosin, Sherifff Agbai and Osojieahen Alioneitouria, who are both from Uromi in Esan West Local Government Area of Edo State. Parading the suspects at the Command Headquarters, Eleweran, Abeokuta on Thursday, 15 February, 2024, the Ogun…
By Abimbola Ogunnaike Nigerian music industry has lost another rising talent as singer Michael Aniekeme Meshach, better known as Mish, succumbed to the cold hands of death. The deceased hailed from Obot Okoh Mbiaobong in Ibiono Ibom Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State. A family member, who confirmed his death to newsmen on Thursday, 15 February, 2024, said the singer died in Abuja. The late singer Mish came to limelight in 2011 after his song, ‘Akwa Ibom Ayaya’ went viral. Not much was heard from the singer after the success of ‘Akwa Ibom Ayaya.’
In pursuit of meeting the targets of 20% (unconditional) and 47% (conditional) greenhouse gas emission reduction as contained in the Nationally Determined Contribution under the Paris Accord signed by the President Bola Ahmed Tinubu administration, the NNPC Ltd/TotalEnergies Joint Venture has achieved zero routine gas flare in all its assets. This feat was announced on Thursday, 15 February, 2024, during an inspection tour of OML 100 in South-eastern Niger Delta, off Port Harcourt, by a joint NNPC Ltd and TotalEnergies Team to ascertain the success of the OML Flare Reduction Project launched in December 2023. The NNPC Ltd/TotalEnergies Joint Venture, which is the concession holder of four leases, had hitherto achieved zero routine flaring across OML…
By Abimbola Ogunnaike The Minister of Power, Mr Adebayo Adelabu, has stated that the Federal Government is committed to settling more than N3 trillion debt it inherited in the power sector. Adelabu, who made this disclosure in Abuja on Wednesday, 14 February, 2024 while addressing newsmen, said :“Today, we owe the Power Generating Companies (GenCos) a total of N1.3 trillion, of which 60 per cent is owed to gas suppliers. ”We had a legacy debt of 1.3 billion dollars prior to 2014 to gas supplier companies, and at today’s rate, that is close to two trillion Naira. “If you add…