The Committee on Political Restructuring and Forms of Government at the ongoing National Conference, has adopted a rotational principle for presidency and governorship positions in Nigeria. The committee, through a majority vote, on Tuesday, May 13, 2014 agreed that the rotational principle…
President Goodluck Jonathan made history on Saturday when he performed the ground breaking ceremony for the first maritime university in Africa, the Nigeria Maritime University at Okorenkoko, Warri Soith West Local Government Area of Delta State. Delta State Governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan…
Western media ever obsessed with bad news from Africa have been feasting on Boko Haram -The shameful terror of the extremists, accentuated by mystery abduction of Nigerian school girls. Here in London the BBC, aided by her global sisters across the world…
As Nigeria continue to tread on the threshold of insecurity, wife of Delta state governor, Deaconess Roli Nere Uduaghan has advised Nigerians to turn away from sin and wholeheartedly embrace God, who is the author and finisher of all things. Deaconess Roli…
Leader of the Niger Delta Peoples Volunteer Force, Alhaji Mujahid Asari Dokubo, has dared Boko Haram leader, Abubakar Shekua to be prepared to meet him on the battle field. Addressing newsmen in Port Harcourt, Asari dismissed the threat by the leader of…
The Senator President, Chief David Mark has decried the spate of bombing and abduction by the Boko Haram sect and charged the federal government to declare war on the terrorist group. Senator David Mark who made the call on Friday, May 02,…
Rivers State Governor, Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi has made history by becoming the first Nigerian Governor to abolish the concept of non-indigeneship. Amaechi, announced this, weekend, at Government House in Port Harcourt, during a solidarity visit by the non-indigenes in the state, under…
DELTA State Governor, Dr Emmanuel Uduaghan has said industrial disharmony can be curbed when the Federal Government involves the states in negotiations of wages and allowances with the organised labour. Speaking on Monday, April 28, 2014 in Asaba when he received members…
Former Federal Commissioner for Information and South South Leader, Chief Edwin Kiagbodo Clark, has called for the suspension of all democratic institutions in Adamawa, Borno and Yobe states to allow the military have full control of the states until peace and order…
The controversial and widely condemned “memo of genocide” written by Adamawa State Governor, Murtala Nyako has been derided by Nigerian governors who also cautioned the “dissident” Nyako to mind his utterances on national security issue. The governors took a swipe at Nyako…
Nigeria’s Minister of Information, Labaran Maku,, has described Adamawa state governor, Murtala Nyako’s comment and accusation of President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration of carrying out genocide in the north eastern Nigeria as “irresponsible and unfortunate”. The governor had in a memo sent to…
Oil exploration activities of the largest fossil fuel company in Nigeria, Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) may be heading towards a gridlock over rift between it and one of it’s host communities in the Niger Delta region. Indigenes of Letugbene community, an…
All is now set for the ground breaking ceremony of the $16 billion Gas City Project located at Ogidigben in Warri South West Local Government Area of Delta State, the State Governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan has revealed. Governor Uduaghan, during a recent…
The President General, Ndokwa National Union (NNU), Pharm. Paul Enebeli, has said his people will demand restitution from the Federal Government of Nigeria over alleged deliberate marginalization and neglect. Enebeli, a delegate representing the South South minority in the ongoing National Conference,…
A Memo to the Northern Governors Forum by His Excellency, V/Admiral Murtala H. Nyako (rtd.), CFR, GCON, rcds, Executive Governor Adamawa State On On-Going Full-Fledged Genocide in ‘Northern Nigeria’. The adverse security situation in Northern Nigeria in particular and Nigeria in general…
Delta State Governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan has urged Nigerians to purge themselves of all impeding factors to the progress of Nigeria as a nation. In a goodwill message to mark this year’s Easter celebrations, the Governor said that Nigerians need to drop…
Abia State Governor, Chief Theodore Orji, has said that Nigerians must unite against evil that is currently threatening the peace of the country as the only way to overcome and pass through its red sea. In an Easter message issued by his…
A two-day stakeholders’ forum on securing investments in the oil and gas industry begins in Effurun, Delta State, on Tuesday, April 15, the state Commissioner for Information, Chike Ogeah, has said. In a press statement issued in Warri, Ogeah said the forum…
The Delta State Government on Wednesday took pre-emptive measures aimed at curtailing the menace of cattle rearers ravaging parts of the country by constituting a high-powered security committee to control the movement of cattle in the state. Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan disclosed this…
THE Niger Delta Indigenous Movement for Radical Change (NDIMRC) has knocked the All Progressives Congress (APC) for raining insults on President Goodluck Jonathan, saying the party was behaving like a rejected child. In a press statement signed by its President, Nelly Emma;…
Rivers State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has enjoined the National Judicial Council (NJC) to reverse its decision in the suspension of Justice Agumagu barely days after he was sworn-in as Chief Judge of Rivers State by the State Government….
Barely few days into the passing out of camp for the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) batch ‘A’, the NYSC Director General, Brigadier General Johnson Bamidele Olawumi has advised corps members to exhibit high level discipline as they set for the mandatory…
SOUTH EAST Governors Forum has condemned the attack, last week, in Imo State on the convoy of the Senate President, Senator David Mark, describing same as a wicked act. Abia state Governor, Chief Theodore Orji who is also Chairman of the South…
AS the political activities towards the 2015 general elections increases, the Governor of Delta State, Delta State Governor Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan has admonished members of the Delta State House of Assembly to strike a balance between their political activities and their legislative…
DELTA State Governor, Dr Emmanuel Uduaghan has identified activities of Boko Haram members as potential threat against the eradication of polio in Nigeria and called for vigilance from states where there are no incidence of polio virus. Governor Uduaghan made the observation…
COMMITTEE OF SENIOR JOURNALISTS IN DELTA: STATE OF THE UNION We have watched and read with a growing sense of anger and disquiet, the needless vituperations, shenanigans and provocative incitements by certain so called journalists, whose claims to the profession are both…
The possibility of former Vice President Atiku Abubakar and dissenting Governors who defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC) returning to the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as requested by President Goodluck Jonathan is zero, the spokesman of the defunct New Peoples…
AHEAD of 2015 general elections, the Delta State Governor, Dr Emmanuel Uduaghan has said, credible elections can be conducted with the active participation of Nigerians. Governor Uduaghan who stated this on Monday, February 25, 2014 at a seminar organized by the Delta…
The Rivers State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has commended the State House of Assembly for passing the Rivers State Reserve Fund Law Amendment Bill 2014 to enable the State Government withdraw N30 billion from the N53 billion in the…
President Goodluck Jonathan has today, Wednesday sacked four of his serving Ministers. Jonathan announced their sack at today’s Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting. The Ministers that were relieved of their appointments include, Elder Godsday Orubebe (Niger Delta Affairs); Ms. Stella Oduah (Aviation);…
Wednesday [12-02-14] In a bid for the people of Southern Nigeria to take a common position on the forthcoming National conference, the 4th General Conference of the Southern Nigeria People’s Assembly (SNPA) has held in Asaba, the Delta state capita, with a…
The wife of the Delta state governor, Deaconess Roli Uduaghan has instructed women to remain in the consciousness of God through spiritual transformation of the society. Speaking today, Sunday, February 02, 2014, during the 7th Edition of the Delta Mothers’ Day Of…
2014: Jonathan’s Ministerial Nominees: 1. General Mohammed Aliyu Gusau rtd. (Zamfara) 2. Senator Musiliu Obanikoro (Lagos) 3. Boni Haruna (Adamawa) 4. Hon. Mohammed Wakil (Borno) 5. Alhaji Abduljelili Oyewale Adesiyan (Osun State) 6. Ambassador Aminu Wali (Kano) 7. Hadjia Jamilia Salik (Kano)…
Rivers State Governor, Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, has defied his detractors by braving the odds to attend yesterday’s rally organised by the Save Rivers Movement (SRM) in Ogoni land, the state chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has said. “Against…
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…
The All Progressives Congress (APC), Rivers State Chapter says it has noted the barefaced lies spewed out by the State Police Commissioner, CP Joseph Mbu, in his desperation to minimize the public outrage that has rightly trailed the death of five innocent…
Nigeria’s former Military Head of State, Civilian President and erstwhile Board Of Trustees (BOT) Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, has re-emerged with another controversial missive, where he took a swipe at the party’s leadership and President Goodluck…
The alleged bombing of a High Court in Ahoada, Rivers State in the morning of Monday January 6th, has infuriated public concern, following myriad of accusations and counter accusations from political interest groups in the oil-rich state, currently embroiled in class feud….
TEXT OF A NEW YEAR MESSAGE TO THE NATION FROM PRESIDENT GOODLUCK EBELE JONATHAN Dear Compatriots, I greet and felicitate with you all as we enter the year 2014 which promises to be a momentous one for our country for several reasons,…
The media have been awash with reactions to a recent letter written by former Nigeria‘s president Olusegun Aremu Obasanjo to incumbent President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan. Just as Nigerians are still engrossed in the discourse of the missive and it’s implications, daughter of…
