Edo State Media Campaign Council of the All Progressives Congress, APC, for the September 19, 2020 governorship election in the state has queried the readiness of the Godwin Obaseki-led government to heed the warnings of the National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, and put in place proactive measures to avert disaster and destruction of properties in…
Delta Government to Introduce Property Tax to Enhance Revenue
Property owners in Delta State would soon start paying taxes on their choice properties as the government moves to introduce property tax in urban areas. This is part of measures by the state government to boost its revenue base. Charles Aniagwu, the state commissioner for information who announced this on Tuesday, said this was part…
Sack NDDC Interim Management Now – Itse Sagay tells Buhari
Insists forensic audit can be done under regular board. The Chairman of the Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption, (PACAC) Prof. Itse Sagay has suggested a clean sweep of the embattled management of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, amidst the multi-billion naira scandal rocking the interventionist agency. Sagay, senior advocate of Nigeria, SAN, who described…
Over 50,000 Persons Benefit from Obaseki’s Agricultural Programmes
No fewer than 50,000 persons, including farmers, logistics operators and food processors, farm managers, among others, have in the past three and a half years, benefited from agricultural programmes implemented by Edo State governor, Godwin Obaseki. In a statement in Benin, special adviser to the governor on media and communication strategy, Crusoe Osagie, said the…
We Are Making Steady Progress on Gelegele Port Project – Edo Govt
The Edo State Government has assured that the Benin City River Port Project is on course, as the screening of the project’s transaction advisor to coordinate the various stakeholders to deliver the project intensifies. Work on the dualisation of the Ekehuan link-road to the port, which connects the port city to the city centre and…
NBC’s Code Of Expired Values
From Tunde Akanni Monday June 22, 2020 was an unusually tragic day in Lagos reinforcing the pre-existing atmosphere of multiple rape cases all over the country. On that day alone, two couples were found dead in their respective apartments in different parts of Lagos. In each of the two cases, the man had killed the…
Landowners in Enugu Raise Fears Over Compulsory Land Acquisition by Govt
Landowners around the NTA Zonal Office and the Institute of Management and Technology in Enugu have expressed fears that the state government might be compulsorily acquiring their land without resorting to them. This followed the clearing of the large expanse of land in the area during the week. But the Enugu State Government has come…
OML 30: Stop Blackmailing OMS, Okunbo, Host Communities, Niger Delta Group Warn Youth Body
Two groups in the area of operations of OML 30, Cluster 11 in the Niger Delta region have risen in stout defence of operators of the oil servicing facility, Ocean Marine Solutions, OMS, and its chief executive officer, CEO, Idahosa Wells Okunbo over allegations of not empowering the indigenes and subletting surveillance contracts to indigenes…
Firm To Create Jobs for Niger Delta Communities from Dividends
An indigenous investment firm, Elano Investments Limited has disclosed plans to invest in employment yielding ventures that will create wealth and employment for youths in its host communities in Eleme, Rivers State. The Chairman of the Board of the company, Gomba Okanje, told the magazine that the decision to go into agriculture and estate development…
COVID-19 Challenge: Economic Sustainability Committee, National Assembly Leadership meet
The Economic Sustainability Committee, ESC, Thursday afternoon, held a virtual meeting with leadership of the National Assembly. Led by its chairman, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, senior advocate of Nigeria, SAN, members of the Committee had interaction with leadership of the National Assembly on the draft Sustainability Plan, ahead of the submission of the Plan to…
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