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The Chairman of the Governing Board of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, Mrs. Lauretta Onochie, has said the commission would no longer be throwing money at problems but would fund specific projects to address challenges in the Niger Delta. Speaking during a courtesy visit by a delegation from the Ijaw Community in Abuja and Northern Nigeria at the commission’s headquarters in Port Harcourt, the NDDC Chairman pledged that the Commission would initiate projects and programmes to empower women and youths in the Niger Delta region. Stating that the Governing Board of the NDDC was determined to change the narrative…

Today, the Kalabari Kingdom does not appear to have leadership to pilot the affairs of the kingdom. This is like a flock of sheep without a shepherd, and we are currently drifting rudderlessly without direction. This is unacceptable to us. We have been in the wilderness and there appears to be no end to it.  Kalabari is moving into a self-destructive mode because those who claim to represent us are only motivated by selfishness and greed. A Kalabari adage says, when there are patriotic elders in the community, elders should never allow a goat about to deliver remain tied up…

For several months now, Nigerians have been subjected to biting scarcity of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) which is commonly referred to as petrol. The scarcity, which started like a child’s play continued unabated and even ran through the entire Christmas festive period, a period most people expected the fuel scarcity to have been dealt with. With the crisis, unimaginable long queues became the order of the day at the various petrol stations as motorists and others whose businesses depend on petrol thronged the filling stations. Checks revealed that some motorists sleep in filling stations while awaiting the availability of the…

Rivers State Government has expressed deep concern over recent video clips and stories about the governor, Chief Nyesom Wike, in the social media. In a presss Statement titled, ‘2023 Elections: The Opposition Continues To Churn Out Fake News On Gov. Wike To Deceive The Public,’ the Rivers State Commissioner for Information and Communications, Chris Finebone, said such videos and stories were meant to deceive voters in Rivers State and other Nigerians for political ends. He said preliminary investigation by the government revealed that it was a scheme put out by people he called social media urchins from the opposition. “Their…

The Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) has emerged as top performer in business efficiency and transparency in the federal government’s ranking of ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs) for the year 2022. This latest result is reminiscent of the board’s 81.46 per cent score in ease of doing business, which placed it on top of all other MDAs for January – June 2022. In the Executive Order 001 (EO1) compliance report released in Abuja by the Presidential Enabling Business Environment Council (PEBEC), the NCDMB scored 81.11 per cent to beat 52 other MDAs captured in the evaluative ranking. Issued…

The Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) has said the $50 million fund for NOGAPS manufacturing product line will only be accessed by companies that will take up spaces in the Nigerian oil and gas park to enable them procure equipment or build their manufacturing shop floor within the park. The fund the NCDMB disclosed, is to motivate companies that would operate in the parks and engage in the manufacturing of equipment components used in the oil and gas industry and linkage sectors. Speaking recently in Lagos during the launching and signing of the fund in partnership with the…

Bayelsa State Government has asked business operators in the state, particularly banks, traders and keke (tricycle) operators to respect the Supreme Court ruling, which ruled that the N1000 and N500 old notes remain legal tender until December 31st in order to reduce the pains of the people of the state. The government also called on the CBN to take immediate steps to ease the burden of doing business in the state by making implementation of the policy less cumbersome. The Bayelsa State commissioner for Information, Orientation and Strategy, Ayibaina Duba in a statement, stated that it understands the pains of…

Piriye Kiyaramo, senior special assistant (SSA) to Bayelsa State Governor on Tourism, says art works have the potential of cultivating a sense of place among members of the community as they see their cultural heritage being expressed in the local arts. Speaking at the opening of a new private art gallery named, Macaulay Eteli Art Gallery in Yenagoa recently Dr. Kiyaramo said, “When it comes to local artists and art galleries, it is important to remind ourselves that art does not exist in a vacuum, rather, it is a two-way street, an exchange between the artist and his audience, which…

The atmosphere is quite tense and expectations high as March 18, 2023 approaches when voters in Rivers State will file out to cast the vote that will determine who will succeed the incumbent governor, Chief Nyesom Wike, come May 29, 2023. The violence that preceded the presidential and national assembly elections on February 25 in the state and the compromises that altered the outcomes of the elections have combined to raise the stakes around the March 18 elections. Though there are 18 candidates, contesting the election, the real contest is among five frontrunners: Siminalayi Joseph Fubara, the candidate of the…