Labour Organised Labour has since three days laid siege to the Port Harcourt Electricity Distribution Company, PHED, in Rivers State over alleged unfair labour practices. However, there were claims yesterday that Soldiers from Bori Camp, in Rives State intimidated and harassed the protesting workers. Led by national leaders of Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, and National Union of Electricity …

Labour By Victor Ahiuma-Young Over the years, successive Governments from military regime to current civilian dispensation have used subsidy and deregulation gimmicks to exploit and inflict pains on Nigerians whenever they  need more revenue. Starting from late General Sani Abacha’s regime, the purported subsidy removal led to the set up of Petroleum Task Fund, PTF, and up till the …

Dr Olufemi Lalude A Nigerian man, Dr Olufemi Lalude who was the first Managing Director of Shell Nigeria Exploration and Production Company (SNEPCO) was the man of integrity that rejected $6 million bribe. Lalude has however been honoured by the Akinjide Adeosun Foundation (AAF). The Foundation on Wednesday conferred on Dr Lalude its 2020 Leadership Award, during the …

Dr Olufemi Lalude A Nigerian man, Dr Olufemi Lalude who was the first Managing Director of Shell Nigeria Exploration and Production Company (SNEPCO) was the man of integrity that rejected $6 million bribe. Lalude has however been honoured by the Akinjide Adeosun Foundation (AAF). The Foundation on Wednesday conferred on Dr Lalude its 2020 Leadership Award, during the …

Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State has inaugurated the 9-man ad hoc committee he recently constituted to identify and determine the status of all properties belonging to the state government. The committee headed by the Deputy Chief of Staff to the Governor, Prof. Malachy Okwueze, is also saddled with the responsibilities of determining the level of compliance with monetization …

Mr Timipre Sylva, the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources says the Federal Government’s decision to fully remove subsidy from petrol will earn the country ₦1trn annually and create massive jobs. Sylva, who said this on Thursday, while speaking with newsmen in Abuja, said that beginning from October, Nigerians “can now convert cars using petroleum to gas, which …

By Peter Duru, Makurdi Benue state government, Thursday commenced the distribution of COVID-19 palliatives donated to the state by CACOVID, a private sector initiative, to over 500,000 Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs, across the state. The distribution which was supervised by the Executive Secretary of the State Emergency Management Agency, SEMA, Dr. Emanuel Shior at the agency’s warehouse in Makurdi …

Minister of Justice and Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami By Ikechukwu Nnochiri The Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, SAN, on Thursday, said the Federal Government of Nigeria would not negotiate with Process and Industrial Developments Limited, P&ID, the firm that was awarded $10billion by a British Court over botched gas supply and …

Two members of the Ondo state House of Assembly, Hon. Festus Akingbaso and Honourable Rasheed Elegbeleye were prevented from entering the assembly complex to attend the plenary sitting. Also read: VIDEO: NIDCOM staff after being locked out of NCC office Vanguard News The post VIDEO: Ondo PDP lawmakers locked out of Assembly complex appeared first on Vanguard News.

By Chinonso Alozie, Owerri The National President of the National Union of Pensioners, NUP, Abel Afolayan, yesterday begged the Imo state governor, Hope Uzodimma, to pay the state pensioners their arrears owed them by the former governor, Rochas Okorocha, running into N56.4 billion. Afolayan made this request in Owerri when himself alongside his national executives and Southeast presidents of …

The Federal Republic of Nigeria (FRN) Thursday appeared in the English High Court for a scheduled hearing. The hearing followed the major victory secured by FRN last Friday, allowing it to bring a fraud challenge against a $10 billion arbitration award obtained by vulture-fund-backed P&ID well outside the normal time limits. In a statement on Thursday, a spokesperson …

By Rotimi Ojomoyela The leadership crisis rocking the Southwest caucus of the People’s Democratic Party(PDP), assumed a dramatic dimension on Thursday, as the faction loyal to the Senator representing Ekiti South Senatorial District in Ekiti State, Mrs Biodun Olujimi, has adopted Oyo State Governor, Engr Seyi Makinde, as the party’s zonal leader. This is also as Ekiti PDP …

The Federal Republic of Nigeria (FRN) Thursday appeared in the English High Court for a scheduled hearing. The hearing followed the major victory secured by FRN last Friday, allowing it to bring a fraud challenge against a $10 billion arbitration award obtained by vulture-fund-backed P&ID well outside the normal time limits. In a statement on Thursday from the …

The Federal Republic of Nigeria (FRN) Thursday appeared in the English High Court for a scheduled hearing. The hearing followed the major victory secured by FRN last Friday, allowing it to bring a fraud challenge against a $10 billion arbitration award obtained by vulture-fund-backed P&ID well outside the normal time limits. In a statement on Thursday from the …

The police on Wednesday arraigned 24-year-old Bola Aseyan before a Yaba Magistrate Court on a five-count charge bordering on a false accusation, criminal defamation of character and offensive publication likely to cause a \breach of the peace. The arraignment followed a running battle of a series of accusations and counter-allegations made by the said Bola Aseyan, against the …

By Michael Eboh Special Adviser to the President on Niger Delta, Senator Ita Enang, accused the governors of the Niger Delta states of been unkind to the region and to oil-producing states. Speaking at a webinar on ‘Resolving the Host Communities Question’, organised by Orderpaper in partnership with the House of Representatives’ Committee on Niger Delta and the Nigeria …

By Wole Mosadomi Niger state government has dismissed a Messanger collecting the salaries equivalent to that of a High Court Judge in Niger State along with 79 others involved in other related salary scams in the State. The involved Civil Servants cut across various Ministries and Parastatals in the state with Millions of Naira involved and were found culpable …

Executive Governor of Ebonyi state, Dr Dave Umahi By Peter Okutu – Abakaliki The former Commissioner for Information and State Orientation, Chief Abia Onyike, Thursday raised alarm over what he described as the ongoing act of selling off or taking over of Ebonyi’s landed properties and buildings, located in Lagos, Abuja, Enugu, Abia and other places by Agents of …

By Festus Ahon, Asaba Chevron Nigeria Limited, CNL, operator of the joint venture between the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, NNPC/CNL JV, has donated a Polymerase Chain Reaction, PCR, laboratory to Warri Central Hospital to support the Delta State government in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. It also donated test kits, medical consumables, four air conditioners, refrigerators, …

By Ike Uchechukwu – Calabar The Executive Chairman of Bakassi Local Government Area, Hon Iyadim Amboni Iyadim has called on the Federal government to either return the 76 oil well ceded to Akwa Ibom state or settle his people properly. Iyadim also asserted that he doesn’t understand why Bakassi was ceded so fast adding that what happened in …