By Paulinus Nsirim …To construct two new hostels …Build 1,500 capacity multi-purpose hall Rivers State Government is to construct two new hostels that will accommodate nine hundred students each at the Nigerian Law School, Yenagoa, Bayelsa State. The State Government ...
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Feed SubscriptionNBA Withdraws Invitation to El-Rufai Over Southern Kaduna Killings
The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) has withdrawn its Annual General Conference invitation to Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, following protests from some lawyers over the inclusion of his name among guest speakers at the event. The NBA announced this in ...
Read More »GODSWILL AKPABIO WANTED: Amidst NDDC Controversies
By Saviour Ekpe The activities of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) have been recurring and trending issues in the media in recent times. This may not be unconnected to the ongoing forensic audit as it is meant to unearthing ...
Read More »Restructure Nigeria to 54 Provinces, Six States – Gen. Momah
…Calls for Single six-year Tenure for President, Governors …Advocates Part-Time Legislature of 54 Senators, 108 Reps By Dirisu Yakubu Long before restructuring attained the status of national discourse in the past few years, few Nigerians privileged to have played a ...
Read More »The Paradox of NDDC
By Joe Iniodu The Niger Delta Development Commission, (NDDC ) was established in June 2000 by the Obasanjo Administration and enshrined with the mandate to bring accelerated development to the oil bearing States of the Niger Delta region. It was ...
Read More »Leave NDDC alone: An Open Letter to the Leadership of the National Assembly
By Comr. (Chief) Frank Akiefa The Ijaw Youth Council has keenly watched the recent happenings going on in the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC). Activities relating to a parastatal responsible for the development of our Ijaw communities is not just ...
Read More »35 Nigerians illegally detained in Ghana, Group raises alarm
A non-Governmental group, Concerned Citizens Rights (CCR) has raised the alarm that 35 Nigerians were illegally detained in a border town of Aflao in Ghana located between the country and Togo Republic. This came barely a week after some apartments ...
Read More »Join a Twenty Million March Against Rape In Nigeria
Completecare and Empowerment Initiative, a frontline Non-Governmental Organisation in Nigeria is deeply concern about the rate of rape cases and other Gender-Based Violence in Nigeria in recent times. Preamble: according to media reports, January and June, 2020, nearly 1000 cases of ...
Read More »Where did we lose it?
By Ruth Richard Where did we lose it? Where did we keep good neighborliness? Where did we lose our morals, discipline and the saying “injury to one is injury to all?” I was stuck in traffic days back waiting for the ...
Read More »Nigerian and the Theory of Racism
By Ruth Richard We must renounce our tribal identities; I’m a Nigerian NOT Igbo, Hausa or Yoruba. The recent current of the #BlackLivesMatter movement in the US has surged tremendously in Nigeria – a country in the thrall of its ...
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