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Recent news has highlighted further concerns about the credibility and quality of Nigeria’s largest oil spill clean-up, including poor implementation of remediation techniques and mishandling of contracts. This time, the concerns come from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) – the very body which has been working closely to support the Hydrocarbon Pollution Remediation Project (HYPREP) to implement the clean-up, and which is now sadly preparing to withdraw from the project at the end of 2022. SDN’s own reporting, which focuses on on-the-ground clean-up activities, raises a number of similar concerns – and recent laboratory analysis for an upcoming report…

Akwa Ibom State House of Assembly has declared vacant the seats of Esit Eket and Ikono State Constituencies. The seats were occupied by Rt. Hon. Usoro Akpanusoh and Hon. Asuquo Nana Udo, who recently defected from the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) to the Young Progressive Party (YPP). Speaker of the House, Rt. Hon. Aniekan Bassey, who made the announcement during plenary, cited Section 109 (1) (a-g) of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (as amended) which guarantees the tenure of House of Assembly Members. According to the Section, “Being a person whose election to the House of Assembly…

The Correspondents’ Chapel of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, Akwa Ibom State Council has observed that the monetary policies of the apex bank , central bank of Nigeria do not seem to be working in curbing inflationary trend in Nigeria. The Chapel made the observation in a communique issued at the end of a 4-day Retreat/Chapel Week at Roses Regency Hotel and Suites, Wuye, Abuja, on the theme: 2023: IN SEARCH OF A BETTER NIGERIA THROUGH RESPONSIBLE JOURNALISM. The Communique jointly signed by Chairman of the Chapel, Comrade Idongesit Ashameri and Chairman of the Communique drafting Committee, Dr Joe Effiong…

President Mohammadu Buhari has ordered the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation and its subsidiaries to immediately move in and ensure that section 4 of the East-West road, spanning from Eleme Roundabout to Onne junction is fixed without delay through the Tax Credit Scheme. He said that the East-West road project currently handled by the federal ministry of Works and Housing is the largest infrastructure in Nigeria,and very dear to his administration. Buhari stated this in Uyo, Akwa Ibom state while delivering a keynote address at the opening ceremony of the meeting of the 5th National Council on Niger Delta held at…

HRM S. P. Luke Kalanama VIII JP, is the Pere (King) of Akugbene Mein Kingdom in Bomadi Local Government Area of Delta State. He is also the first Vice Chairman, Delta State Traditional Rulers Council. In this interview with National Point’s Delta State Correspondent Dave Okpongadie, the royal father expressed concern over the state of insecurity in Nigeria and calls on President Muhammadu Buhari to be more proactive in tackling the menace. He also spoke on other salient matters bedeviling the Niger Delta region. Excerpts: Your Majesty, are you worried by the wave of crime in Nigeria, considering the fact…

More than four months after tens of people, mostly women and children were killed in a stampede at a church programme at the Polo Field in Port Harcourt, surviving victims and families of those that died in the incident are yet to receive any form of support from the church, government and the state. National Point investigations reveal that the victims of the stampede have been abandoned and left to their fate, with a lot of them suffering from post-traumatic stress disorders. They appear to have been left with the option to find means of seeking redress from the church…

Following increasing incidence of attacks and kidnappings along the Emohua-Kalabari road in Rivers State, the Commissioner of Police in Rivers State, Mr. Friday Eboka, has assigned the Deputy Commissioner of Police in charge of Operations to lead the tactical teams to secure the route. The Rivers State Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Grace Iringe-Koko, told National Point that the police command was taking the situation on the road seriously and was doing everything to restore sanity to the road, which connects the three Kalabari local government areas of Degema, Asari-Toru and Akuku-Toru with the rest of the state by road.…

Governor Udom Emmanuel of Akwa Ibom has said that the state government spent over N1.2B to train the second batch of Engineers and Pilots from the state with aircraft manufacturers Airbus in a renewed move to reposition and increase the capacity of the state owned Airline, Ibom Air. Emmanuel who made this known during an interaction with journalists in Uyo said already the first batch of trainees was already undergoing the training meant to provide needed technical personnel in Nigeria’s flagship Airline, Ibom Air. The Governor who expressed joy at the strides of the airline within a short time said…

Governor of Delta State and Vice-Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Sen. Ifeanyi Okowa has inaugurated a 8.4km flood control project in Akwa Ibom State. The cost of the flood control scheme initiated by the Akwa Ibom State Government in partnership with World Bank through the Nigeria Erosion and Watershed Management Project (NEWMAP), is put at N16 billion, which transverses 18 communities in three local government areas of the state and is designed to carry more than half of the flood water generated in Uyo and environs. Speaking shortly before commissioning the IBB flood control project in Uyo, Okowa…

Former Speaker of Edo State House of Assembly, Hon Mrs. Elizabeth Ativie, has resigned her membership of the All Progressives Congress (APC) over what she termed the non-inclusion of women in elective positions, while seeking a third force where members are to freely express themselves, outside the APC and the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP). Ativie’s resignation was announced at a news conference at the Press Centre of Nigeria Union of Journalists, Edo State Council, Benin City, Edo State with a letter addressed to the Edo State chairman of APC, Col. David Imuse (rtd.), through the party’s chairman of Irhue Ward…