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President Buhari has approved the appointment of Prof. Nanibarini Zabbey as the new Project Coordinator of HYPREP. The appointment takes immediate effect.  Prof Nanibarini Zabbey is a foremost and renowned Ogoni expert on hydrobiology and has extensive experience and background on remediation related activities with bias in bio-monitoring and restoration ecology. Until his appointment, he was a senior lecturer at the Department of Fisheries Faculty of Agriculture, University of Port Harcourt. He is the first African recipient of the Association of the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO) 2022 Ruth Patrick Award for research and engagement with a critical impact…

The Edo State Independent Electoral Commission (EDSIEC) has postponed the Local Government Elections earlier scheduled to hold on Saturday, May 6, 2023 to Saturday, September 2, 2023.  A statement released on Tuesday by the administrative secretary, EDSIEC, Sunday A. Osayande, stated, “This is to inform the general public that the Local Government Council Elections earlier fixed for Saturday 6th May 2023 will be held on Saturday 2nd September, 2023”. The shift in date has readjusted activities timelines. “The consequential effect on the scheduled activities are as follows: Thursday 1st June 2023, end of parties primaries; Friday 2nd June 2023 to…

KebetKache Women Development and Resource Centre organized the Earth Day and Women Health Tribunal on Monday, 24 April 2023 at Visa Karena Hotel in Port Harcourt, Rivers State. The theme for this year’s Earth Day is ‘Invest in the Planet!’  KebetKache celebration aimed to spotlight the destruction of the earth by over seven decades of fossil fuel extraction in Nigeria and the implications for women and their health. The Women’s Health Tribunal is a space to share experiences on environment, pollution, and women’s health  The conference brought together women from communities in the Niger Delta, representatives of Non-Governmental Organizations, Community…

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Easter means deep love, it is a commemoration of when Christ sacrificed His Life to save humanity due to the love He has for man. He paid the ultimate price. Without doubt, there is a deep animosity in the country today; there is no pretence about that. But in commemoration of the Easter Season, which is a season of deep sacrifice, let us endeavour to make that difficult sacrifice. Let us remind ourselves that we do not have any other country to call our own, other than Nigeria. Therefore, in the spirit of Easter, let us resolve that our country…

Former chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Hon. Cairo Ojougboh, has lambasted the Deputy Senate and Senator representing Delta Central Senatorial District in the National Assembly (NASS), Ovie Omo-Agege over his expulsion from the party. Describing his expulsion by Omo-Agege as “kangaroo” Ojougboh said “that is Omo-Agege’s way,” adding that the DSP’s escapade is well documented in the National Assembly over what happened to the mace in the Senate. Ojougboh noted that since Omo-Agege lost his governorship bid, he has been running from pillar to post because of his frustration. He said that by giving the governorship ticket to…

Spokesman of the Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP Presidential Campaign Council, Mr Charles Aniagwu says the alleged suspension of the party’s national chairman, Dr Iyorchia Ayu was illegal and not in conformity with the party’s constitution. Aniagwu, who spoke on a live programme on AIT, said those who attempted to suspend the national chairman in Benue State were ignorant of the provisions of the party’s constitution as amended in 2017. He accused Rivers governor, Nyesom Wike and his Benue counterpart, Samuel Ortom of being behind the said suspension in what looks like the APC’s Oshiomhole kind of treatment. He argued that…

The deputy director, Media and Publicity Committee, Delta State APC Campaign Committee, Dr. Tonye Timi has taken a swipe at the expelled Dr. Cairo Ojougboh for his cowardly outbursts and for being on a paid assignment to disrupt the party’s efforts. According to Dr. Tonye, the Delta State APC Gubernatorial Campaign Committee had watched with disgust the shameful vituperations of Dr. Ojougboh, the expelled and now former member of the APC on Senator Ovie Omo-Agege, the party’s gubernatorial candidate. “Dr. Ojougboh spent nearly an hour on Arise TV pouring invectives on our candidate and principal, Ovie Omo-Agege. We have observed…

On May 29 this year when the current democratic rule clocks 24 years, a new set of governors (apart from Edo and Bayelsa) and legislators will mount the saddle in the six states of the Niger Delta region. They will have a battle brushing aside the infamy of the 2023 elections that ushered them into office and face the more demanding task of governing their states that now yearn for development and economic stimulation. When Nigerians trooped out on February 25, 2023 to vote in the Presidential and National Assembly elections, millions of them did so with the conviction that…

The national publicity secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Felix Morka has vowed that the party will pursue justice to ensure they retrieve the peoples’ mandate given to the party’s Delta State governorship candidate, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege at the just-concluded guber poll. Morka while rejecting the results of the Delta State gubernatorial election held on March 18, described the results declared by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) as a “travesty” and a pyrrhic victory for the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) and its candidate, Hon Sheriff Oborevwori, saying the results will be overturned by the sheer weight of evidence…