Seyi Tayese, Yenagoa Eni, the parent company to Nigeria Agip Oil Company (NAOC) says the leak from Ogboinbiri-Tebidada pipeline at its Nigerian operations is being investigated. Confirming the oil spill incident, a statement by a spokesperson on behalf of management of Eni on Friday, said an investigation was underway. Although the community traced the oil spill to a ruptured pipeline, the oil company said that a joint investigation visit to the incident site will ascertain the cause of the oil leakage. “Joint investigation visits with representatives of the authorities and of the communities are ongoing, to ascertain the facts and…
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Seyi Tayese, Yenagoa Women from Nembe, Nembe Local Government Area of Bayelsa State have given Aiteo Eastern Exploration & Production Company, operator of OML 29, a 14-day ultimatum to meet their demands. The women, who staged a warning protest at Aiteo’s loading facility at Nembe Creek, vowed to fully occupy the facility if the company failed to meet their demands. The protest was primarily due to the non-recognition of community recommended surveillance contractors by Aiteo while instead awarding same contracts to people of their own choosing. The women started the protest as early 6.30am displaying placards with inscriptions such as:…
Seyi Tayese, Yenagoa The Pere of Gbaramatu Kingdom,Oboro-Gbaraun II, Aketekpe, Agadagba has urged the INEC officials tasked with the responsibility of delineating Warri Federal Constituency to execute it in accordance with the constitution. The royal father made the call when officials of the electoral umpire visited him on Friday in Oporoza, traditional headquarters of Gbaramatu kingdom, Warri South-West Local Government Area of Delta State. Addressing the visitors in his palace, the monarch urged the INEC officials to go ahead with the delineation exercise but, however advised them to be diligent. It would be recalled that the Supreme Court had recently…
Umar Faruk, Gusau United Nations Educational Fund (UNICEF ) has promised to commit over N480million to support women and children to access free healthcare services in Zamfara State. UNICEF Chief of the Sokoto Field office, Michael Juma disclosed this during a three-day formal opening of UNICEF Interaction with Zamfara State Government officials on the State’s Ten-Year Strategic Plan. This is a three-day formal opening of UNICEF Interaction with Zamfara State Government officials on the State’s 10-year Strategic plan, which stakeholders believed would help the Dauda Lawal-led administration to achieve results in its efforts to engender sustainable development in the State,…
Bayelsa State-born Cherish Daniel Markson, has made Nigeria proud in the international community as the University of Warwick in the United Kingdom awarded her a first prize for her exceptional performance in the three-year BA (Hons) degree in Law with Social Sciences. Cherish (21), who graduated as the best Law graduate at the University of Warwick, is the daughter of a former Commissioner for Information and Orientation in Bayelsa State, Daniel Iworiso-Markson. Reacting to the feat from the University of Warwick, her excited father, Daniel Iworiso-Markson, said it was not his own making but God who provided him life and…
Samuel Adesola with Agency Report No fewer than 16 students were killed on Friday when a school in Jos, the capital of Plateau State, collapsed on pupils taking examinations. Eye witnesses said trapped students were heard crying for help under the rubble after the Saint Academy located in Jos North Local Government Area fell. As excavators and other mechanical diggers tried to rescue the victims, parents desperately searched for their children. Although officials have so far only said “several students” were killed, an AFP correspondent reported counting five dead bodies in one hospital morgue and 11 in another with all…
Kwara State Governor and Chairman of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum, AbdulRazaq AbdulRahman, says the forum welcomed the ruling of the Supreme Court granting autonomy to local government areas. AbdulRazaq described the apex court’s verdict as a relief from the burdens on the Governors. The NGF chairman who was in company with the Chairman, All Progressives Congress Governors Forum, Hope Uzodimma, and Chairman, Peoples Democratic Party Governors Forum, Dr Bala Mohammed, made the remark while addressing State House correspondents after a meeting with President Bola Tinubu at the Presidential Villa, Abuja on Friday. AbdulRazaq stated that compliance to the verdict is…
Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde, on Friday, presented the Staff of Office and the Instrument of Office to the new Olubadan of Ibadanland, Oba Owolabi Olakulehin as the 43rd Olubadan. Makinde, who made the presentation at the ancient Mapo Hall in Ibadan, the state capital, said, “By the power conferred upon me as the Governor by sub-sections (1) and (2) of Section 20 of the Chiefs Law Cap 28 Vol.1 Laws of Oyo State of Nigeria, 2000, I hereby present the Instrument/Staff of Office, which symbolises your authority as the Olubadan of Ibadanland, His Imperial Majesty, Oba Owolabi Olakulehin.” The…
. Report says bribe amounts to 0.35% of country’s GDP Nigerian public officials received a whopping N721billion in 2023, a new report by the National Bureau of Statistics has revealed. According to the report released on Thursday and titled, “Corruption in Nigeria: Patterns and Trends”, the N721bn paid in bribe amounts to about 0.35 per cent of Nigeria’s Gross Domestic Product. The NBS said the result of the report was based on a survey conducted with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. According to the report, judges were the highest recipients of bribes, collecting an average N31,000 per…
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) on Wednesday sacked the top management team of the Nigerian Security Printing and Minting Plc (NSPM) – otherwise known as the mint – and appointed Abubakar Sule Minjibr as the acting Managing Director. Minjibr replaces Ahmed Halilu, the company’s former MD& CEO who was widely reported as an elder brother to Aisha Buhari, wife of the former President, Muhammad Buhari, and was appointed by him in 2022. The development Is contained in an internal memo “House Notice No. 2083 – Executive Management Changes” signed by Soji Ogungbesan, General Manager of Corporate Services at the…