JOHANNESBURG, South-Africa, February 18, 2014/ –– African energy leaders see global climate framework uncertainty, high energy prices, and commodity prices as the critical issues driving Africa’s energy agenda this year, according to the 2014 World Energy Issues Monitor, released by World Energy…
Abia State Governor, Chief Theodore Orji, says his administration will continue to provide the enabling environment for businessmen to invest in the state. Governor Orji gave the assurance when he received the Chairman and members of Board of Directors of Hy-Lok Nigeria…
With the global drive towards green economy and the need to de-emphasize wholesale reliance on the exploitation of natural deposits, the initiative by Delta State government to adopt a wholistic approach to development has become a template not just for the rest…
Delta State Governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan yesterday called on the International Oil Companies (IOCs) operating in Nigeria to adopt the Global Memorandum of Understanding (GMoU) model of Chevron Nigeria Limited as part of measures to ensure peace in the oil bearing communities…
The governor of Nigeria’s oil and gas wealthy Delta State, Dr. Emmanuel Eweta Uduaghan, has on Saturday, January 18, 2014 received an International Outstanding Leadership Award from Metro Éireann, Ireland’s leading and only multi-cultural newspaper. Uduaghan who led a team of managers…
Delta State Governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan has inaugurated a task force on Ground Rent Collection with a charge to deltans to pay their taxes promptly so as to sustain the improved economic growth in the state. Governor Uduaghan who stated this on…
As the controversy over who owns Soku oil wells deepens between the Rivers State Government and the Bayelsa State Government, Former Minister of Petroleum Resources and rights activist, Professor Tam David-West have warned President Goodluck Jonathan who is from Bayelsa, to leave…
Delta State Governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan has re-affirmed his faith and commitment to the $16 billion Gas City Project in the state, insisting that the project was on course and would not be stalled by activities of fifth columnists. Uduaghan, in a…
Delta State Governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan has commissioned 100 Toyota Hiace Buses and 30 Innoson High Capacity Buses with a pledge to continue to boost the Delta State Mass Transport programme. Governor Uduaghan who made this pledge on Monday, December 23, 2013…
DESPITE the large number of commuters at motor parks in the state as a result of Christmas celebration, the Chairman of the Delta State Council of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) Comrade Ifeanyi Obi has said there will not…
DELTA State Governor, Dr Emmanuel Uduaghan has presented a N391.51 (three hundred and ninety one billion, five hundred and ten million naira) budget proposal for the 2014 fiscal year to the state Legislature with an assurance that his administration will finish strong….
Delta state Commissioner for Commerce and Industry, Dr. Kingsley Emu,has boasted that the oil and gas rich state would soon become the major fish basket of Nigeria, following the recent ban on fish importation. He told a surprised media audience, on Tuesday,…
A sociocultural group under the aegis of Delta Youths for Good Governance (DYGG) said Nigeria can do better if well diversified from relying solely on oil driven economy. Comrade Avinyeze Peter, president of the group stated this in a communiqué jointly signed…
Following the retirement of Praveen Bhasin, Managing Partner, Horwath Dafinone, from the practice of accounting after thirty four years of meritorious service in the firm, a new managing partner has emerged. Praveen joined the practice on 2nd October, 1979 as a newly…
The importance of electricity for the betterment of human life and comfort of citizens and social well being of a people will remain perpetually significant. And the Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan administration in Delta state would seem to have clearly understood the crucial…
Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan of oil and gas rich Delta State, has urged the International community aid Nigeria to grow its economy in the on-going campaign against crude oil theft. Uduaghan, who is also chairman of the National Economic Council on Crude Oil…
In a bid to transform Delta state beyond complete dependence on oil, the state government has initiated five key areas to sustain it in the future. This is just as the state government has allocated and granted Certificates of Occupancy for 6,000…
Delta State Governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan has called for the reduction in high cost of governance in the country through the immediate diversification of the economy and control of the number of political appointments. This is just as the state Commissioner overseeing…
Delta State Governor, Dr Emmanuel Uduaghan has called for the immediate diversification of the nation’s economy, just as he charged the media to educate Nigerians on the Nigeria Beyond Oil Initiative and its immense benefits. The governor who stated this on Thursday,…
Delta State Governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan and his economic team had once again shown commitment to reduce dependence on oil and gas which was perceived to be the economic bedrock of the state, even as he successfully organized a 2-day “Corporate Nigeria…
Delta State Governor, Dr Emmanuel Uduaghan has stated that payment of taxes by individuals and organisations was a civic duty and not a form of punishment by government. Uduaghan who said this while inaugurating the reconstituted Delta Board of Internal Revenue (DBIR)…
The Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan-led administration in the oil rich Delta has been scored high, following his unsurpassed achievements in wealth creation, massive roads and infrastructure development across the state. The score-card was unveiled at the ongoing mid-term reports by members of the…
The Executive Chairman, Delta State Board of Internal Revenue (DBIR), Hon. Joel-Onowakpo Thomas, has said that anyone planning to succeed Governor Emmanuel Udughan of Delta State must be prepared to wear the big shoe that he will leave behind. Hon. Joel-Onowakpo stated…
Delta State Government has approved over twenty-seven projects running into billions of naira to boost infrastructural development in the state. The Commissioner of Information, Barrister Chike Ogeah made the disclosure when briefed journalists on Wednesday this week, after the State Executive Council…
DELTA State Governor, Dr Emmanuel Uduaghan has said that efforts were on by the State to reduce its energy consumption as it partners energy giant, Philips to drive the Government’s green economy programme Speaking at the weekend in Abuja during a meeting…
The Chief of Staff, Government House and Protocol, Asaba, Dr. Festus Okubor has enjoined deltans to tap into the enormous agricultural potentials of the state to create wealth and jobs for the youths. Dr Okubor who stated this on Tuesday, July 02,…
Delta State Governor Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan has disclosed that the state government has released the sum of over N1.6 billion to the 25 local government Councils being their share of the Subsidy, Reinvestment and Empowerment Program (SURE-P) funds Governor Uduaghan who was…
In a bid to track-up funds allegedly being diverted by some Ministries, Departments and Agencies in Delta state, Governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan has directed that all internal revenues accruing to the state government must be collected solely by the Board of Internal…
Delta State Governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan, has assented to the 2013 Appropriation Bill of N472 billion, made up of N316 billion for Capital Expenditure and N156 billion for Recurrent Expenditure. Governor Uduaghan, while signing the Bill into law on Monday, March 04,…
THE ground breaking ceremony to signal commencement of work at the Warri Industrial Business Park (WIBP) would take place in the second quarter of 2013, Chairman of the Delta State Economic Advisory team, Mr. Bismark Rewane has said. Rewane, at a meeting…
Delta State government has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU ) with the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO) to establish a shoe manufacturing and leather works production and training centre in the Asaba. The Centre which would be spread across 2.6…
Delta State Board of Internal Revenue (DBIR) has expressed its zeal to commence a comprehensive audit of the 25 local government areas in the state to determine their level of compliance in relation to revenue generation and remittance. Chairman of the Board,…
Delta State Government has set a target of three weeks for the issuance of Certificate of Occupancy (C Of O) on all government allocated lands and three months for private lands. The move, according to the State Governor, Dr Emmanuel Uduaghan is…
