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Niger Development Commission (NDDC) has said that its 27-kilometre Ogbia-Nembe road and six bridges project in Bayelsa would soon be completed . A statement issued in Port Harcourt by Mr Chijioke Amu-Nnadi, the commission’s Head of Corporate Affairs unit, disclosed that the project was awarded at a cost of N24.5 billion. It quoted Mrs Ibim Semenitari, Acting Managing Director of NDDC, as saying that President Muhammadu Buhari directed the commission to fast track completion of ongoing projects in the Niger Delta. It said the project, which had more than 50 culverts spreading across “very difficult terrains”, would terminate in Brass Local Government area of the state. “NDDC is committed to speedy completion of the 27-kilometre Ogbia-Nembe road, six bridges and 50 culverts project in partnership with the Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC). “The project which is in its first phase of completion will eventually terminate in Brass area of Bayelsa State. “The project, which is neari...

His Royal Majesty, Obi Chukwuka Noah Akaeze 1 Of Ubulu-Uku Kingdom in Aniocha South LGA of Delta state, who happens to be Nigeria's youngest king embraces his destiny, meet with Delta State Governor, Senator Ifeanyi Okowa  at Delta State Government House, Asaba. When God says Yes, no man can say No! See more pictures.....

Former Bayelsa governor, Timipre Sylva this morning took to Twitter to share his thoughts on how Nigeria can grow it's economy and increase the value of the Naira. Read more tweets after the cut...

President Muhammadu Buhari has appointed a visually impaired man, DR. SAMUEL INALEGWU ODE ANKELI as his Senior Special Assistant with responsibility for his dealings with persons living with disability. Dr. Ankeli headed the  Directorate of Persons With Disability at the Buhari/Osinbajo APC presidential campaign headquarters, the first of any such department in a political party in Nigeria. He led a team that successfully mobilized a large number of the more that 24 million disabled persons in the country to support the APC candidate and his running mate in the 2015 presidential election campaign. Dr Ankeli hails from Benue State. He went to school in Giwa, near Zaria and Kaduna before reading veterinary medicine at the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria. He worked with the Benue State government before quitting to give time to his activist role in the promotion of the wellbeing of the blind and people with all kinds of disability. He leads a very active religious and sporting life. He...

The Minister of Transport, Mr Chibuike Amaechi, on Monday said that the maritime industry had the capacity to generate N500 billion revenue yearly for the nation, excluding customs revenue Amaechi made the disclosure during a one-day Summit organised by Tell Magazine and the Nigerian Shippers’ Council (NSC) in Lagos. He said that the shipping sub-sector was a major aspect of the maritime industry, adding that the sector remained crucial to the economy as the second revenue earner for government. Amaechi said that the petroleum industry which had been the mainstay of the economy depended largely on shipping, without which the product evacuation would be impossible. He said that shipping was the backbone of oil and gas productions and marketing. “Statistics has shown that over 80 per cent of global oil trade is transported by ships, while in the case of Nigeria, it is 100 per cent. “The shipping sub-sector of the maritime industry is estimated to be worth over 3 billion ...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Monday arrested a former Minister of Interior, Abba Moro, over the Nigerian Immigration recruitment scam in which no fewer than 20 job seekers died. Also arrested by the anti-graft agency were former Permanent Secretary in the ministry, Anaesthesia Nwaobia, and a deputy director who allegedly facilitated the scam. NDPM News

The Minister of Solid Minerals, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, on Monday said that the Federal Government is set to revoke licenses in the mining and exploration sector that have been dormant and have not operated over a period of time. Speaking during a fact finding tour to Niger State, the Minister said that the Federal Government is not out to criminalize ordinary Nigerians who are working hard to make a living for themselves, but added that if they choose to remain illegal after government has extended its hand of support, they will have to face the wrath of the law. “Illegal mining exists, we need to stop being in denial of it. One of this government’s priorities is to provide jobs for our people. We are not criminalizing hardworking Nigerians who are trying to eke out a living for themselves rather, we are aiming to formalize the sector. “We are working to ensure that those referred to as illegals are formalized into cooperatives to enable them contribute to the Nigerian society via taxes. A...

PRESIDENT BUHARI DEPARTS FOR SAUDI AND QATAR. FEB 22, 2016 President Muhammadu Buhari and FCT Minister Mohammed Bello leaving for an official visit to Saudi Arabia and Qatar from Abuja. President Muhammadu Buhari departs for an official visit to Saudi Arabia and Qatar from Abuja. See more pictures...

One person of interest, an Aso-empowered brigandage, Government Ekpemupolo, aka Tompolo, a former militant leader, like a wounded telltale, has been in the dock of public opinion for acts bothering on corruption, fraud, money laundering and sabotage on the nation’s economy. Government Ekpemupolo popularly known as Tompolo, (born 1971), is a Nigerian militant commander of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, (MEND). For years Ekpemupolo commanded various guerrilla groups in the Niger Delta and with his vast wealth, aided in the proliferation of arms in the region. Tompolo and his culprits-in-chiefs’ meteoric rise to national attention was made possible in the past through series of uncoordinated attacks in the creeks of Niger Delta, ranging from pipe line vandalization, oil bunkering, setting up of illegal refineries, kidnapping of expatriates and other acts of sabotage under the guise of agitating against the insensitivity of the Federal Government and the internationa...

On the 16th of February 2016, the leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) adopted Senator Ali Modu Sheriff (aka SAS), a two-time ANPP Governor of Borno state, a former ANPP senator, the former Chairman of the All Peoples Congress (APC) Board of Trustees and the indisputable founder of Boko Haram as its Acting National Chairman. Modu-Sheriff is also the erstwhile godfather and sponsor of Governor Shettima Ali, the present APC Governor of Borno state (until they fell out), he is a man that has a very deep and profound relationship and association with Idris Deby, the President of Chad and he is a man whose son is married to the daughter of President Muhammadu Buhari. Many have argued that his allegiance is more to the Republic of Chad than it is to Nigeria, that he is an agent of the Chadian intelligence agencies and that he is a Chadian citizen who often flaunts his Chadian passport. I cannot confirm the veracity of these assertions but one thing that I know is that most of Mod...

Former President Goodluck Jonathan’s detained ex-Aide-de-Camp (ADC) Col.  Ojogbane Adegbe has passed the buck on the N10billion gift for Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) delegates. He has told the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to ask Dr. Jonathan’s former Special Assistant on Domestic Affairs, Waripamowei Dudafa to account for the cash, a source said yesterday. The ADC said when the suitcases containing the cash were brought as messages for the President, he merely handed them over to Dudafa. He said military law forbids him from opening any message meant for the President, unless otherwise directed. Also, one of the Army officers being questioned over the $2.1 billion arms purchase scandal, Col. N. Ashinze , the former Special Military Assistant to the ex-NSA, Col. Sambo Dasuki (retd.), is stranded as he could not resume in his new posting as the nation’s Military Attache to the Nigerian Embassy in Germany. Although Col. Ashinze has been released from EFCC custody ...

The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has sent a petition to Ms. Monica Pinto UN Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers requesting her to urgently prevail on the National Judicial Council (NJC) to suspend the judge involved in the alleged receipt of N225, 000 bribe. The group also asked Ms Pinto to prevail on the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) to ask the Legal Practitioners Disciplinary Committee (LPDC) to suspend the lawyer involved in the alleged payment of N225, 000 bribe in Nigeria, pending the completion of any investigation as well as final determination of any trial on the matter. The petition dated February 19, 2016 and signed by the Executive Director of SERAP, Adetokunbo Mumuni, read in part: “SERAP is concerned that despite these serious allegations of bribery and corruption, the National Judicial Council has failed and/or refused to suspend the judge involved pending any investigation and/or trial of the judge. Similarly, the Nig...

The All Progressives Congress has congratulated a former President of the Senate, David Mark, for his victory in the Benue South Senatorial rerun election held Saturday. Mr. Mark was declared winner early Sunday morning amid protest by his main challenger, Daniel Onjeh, who demanded that the election be declared inconclusive. The former senate president scored 84,192 votes, leaving a margin of 12,571 votes between him and Mr. Onjeh, who garnered 71,621 votes. A total of 29,273 votes were cancelled. After Mr. Mark was declared winner by INEC, Mr. Onjeh’s agent protested, saying the number of cancelled votes (29,273) was higher than the margin of win (12,571). He therefore contended that the election should have been declared inconclusive. He also accused INEC of cancelling votes in APC’s strongholds, and indicated that his party and its candidate would challenge Mr. Mark’s victory. But despite the protest by its own candidate, the APC congratulated Mr. Mark, in what app...

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has asked banks’ customers to report cases of excessive and in some cases illegal charges by Deposit Money Banks. In a statement on Saturday by the CBN’s spokesman, Ibrahim Mu’azu, the apex bank said it had received series of complaints from customers of Deposit Money Banks (DMBs) alleging excessive charges from their respective banks. The bank reiterated that the Revised Guide to Bank Charges clearly specified allowable charges for all banking services, warning that it would not in any way condone the fleecing of banking customers under any guise. “It was in the quest to provide a strong voice to banks’ customers and moderate the arbitrary charges that the CBN in 2012, established its Consumer Protection Department,” the statement read. The apex bank said it had investigated over 6,000 complaints relating to unauthorised bank charges brought to its notice and that banks had been compelled to refund over 6.2 billion Naira to affected customers in 2015 ...