Delta State Ministry of Health has begun refunding money extorted from students in authorized study fees in the state’s Colleges of Nursing Asaba and Sapele. The state Commissioner for Health, Dr Joseph Onojaeme, who monitored the refund exercise on Wednesday at the state College of Nursing, Asaba, disclosed that the extortion involved the schools’ Department…
A Benin-based group, God and People Prayer Parliament has advocated for the restructuring of Nigeria into eight regional parliamentary systems of government. National Chairman of the group, Dr Dele Oluwatade, while presenting the group’s proposal in Benin City, explained that in the proposed arrangement, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu would transmute to a Prime Minister as…
Edwin Clark University, Kiagbodo, in Burutu Local Government Area of Delta State has come up with new high-yielding agricultural methodologies in fisheries and cassava production, the Vice Chancellor, Professor Samuel Ugbolue, has disclosed. The eight-year-old university has, in addition, concluded a breakthrough research into environmental and industrial chemistry, aimed at effectively dealing with environmental issues…
A university don, Dr Innocent Kasarchi, has commended the Bayelsa State All Progressives Congress deputy governorship candidate in the 2023 general elections, Joshua Maciver, for his humility and zeal to learn as a Masters’ student at the Ignatius Ajuru University of Education in Port Harcourt. Dr Kasarchi made the commendation in an exclusive interview with South-South…
The Olugbo of Ugbo Kingdom in the Ilaje Local Government Area of Ondo State, Oba Fredrick Akinruntan, has congratulated the Ondo State Governor, Lucky Aiyedatiwa, on his victory in the governorship primary of the All Progressives Congress. The PUNCH reports that Aiyedatiwa won the shadow election after polling 48,569 votes to defeat 15 contestants in…
The Nigerian Association of Road Transport Owners in the South-West zone has voiced its growing concerns about the deteriorating state of roads and escalating insecurity, appealing to governors and the Federal Controller of Works for immediate intervention. The association also lamented multiple taxations by government agencies. During the inauguration of newly elected members, the NARTO…
In a desperate move to inculcate in public primary school pupils the passion for agriculture and stem the alarming inflation of food prices, the Akwa Ibom State government, through the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, has commenced the distribution of agricultural inputs to public primary schools across the three senatorial districts in the state….
An international non-profit organisation, ‘Ashoka Africa,’ said it is collaborating with young stakeholders in diverse sectors to co-design innovative and sustainable solutions to environmental challenges in Niger Delta communities. The organisation said the move aims at achieving environmental sustainability and climate justice, not only in the region but in Nigeria and beyond. Pan-African Co-Lead of…
The Itsekiri National Youths Council has queried the Ogbe-Ijoh community over its land ownership claim in Warri South Local Government Area of Delta State, submitting that “Ogbe-Ijoh has no claim in Warri South!” This was contained in a statement by INYC, Warri South chapter, signed jointly by its Secretary and Public Relations Officer, Comrades Ajemijeroma…
Stakeholders in the environment have called on states Houses of Assembly, especially in the Niger Delta region, to develop policies that would allow individuals to generate electricity using methane, and possibly sell to the national grid. This was contained in a communiqué issued on Wednesday by the Environmental Centre for Oil Spills and Gas Flaring,…
Edo State government has called for expedited completion and commissioning of the Monee International Market in Ikpoba Okha Local Government Area of the state in a bid to bolster economic growth and infrastructure development. The call was made during a crucial meeting of the market stakeholders on Wednesday, at the One-Stop-Shop, Block B, Secretariat in…
THE Rivers State Commissioner for Information and Communications, Joseph Johnson, says the two commissioners who resigned from the cabinet of Governor Siminalayi Fubara were lucky that the governor is a tolerant person. He described the reasons adduced by the two commissioners for resigning as an afterthought, saying they ought not to have waited until their…
