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By Amos Odeh, Yenagoa The Managing Director of Kojo Sam Logistics and Labrador Security Services, Dr Kojo Sam, has donated N50 million to 100 female business owners in Bayelsa State. Kojo, who doled out the money during his birthday celebration at Opu-Nembe, Nembe Local Government Area, said it would cover small business owners in Opu-Nembe, Nembe City, Okpoma, Odioma, Oluasiri and Obioku. According to him, the gesture was in obedience to God’s revelation that he should empower the women during his birthday. He commended Governor Douye Diri for the peace efforts in Nembe and encouraged leaders in the…

By Our Reporter It was a historic event last Saturday June 14, 2025 as members of the Rotary Club of Trans Amadi District 9141 Nigeria came out in their numbers to install Rotarian Benjamin Orabueze as their 41st president. The colourful and well attended ceremony, which coincided with the club’s 40th Anniversary, was held at FB Garden in Port Harcourt, attracted personalities from far and near, including past district Governors of Rotary. Delivering her valedictory speech before handing over the baton of leadership to the new President, outgoing President Rtn. Felicia Obioma Barber (FOB) expressed gratitude over the…

By Ehichioya Ezomon This is certainly not a good political season for Nigeria’s opposition parties, as they face an existential threat from continuing depletion of their major and minor platforms due to massive defections of members to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). Coming at a time they’ve vowed to “capture power” from the APC, and throw President Bola Tinubu out of the Aso Rock Presidential Villa seat of government in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital city; the same politicians blame their dwindling fortunes on the President for stifling the opposition in order to create a one-party State in the…

Emma Sunday The Samuel Ogbuku-led Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, has been applauded for rewriting the narrative of poor work space and substandard work environment that has bedevilled the Agency’s Bayelsa State office since its inception in 2000, with building of a new office. A political pressure group, Niger Delta Rights Advocates (NDRA), made the commendation in a statement issued in Port Harcourt on Monday by it’s Director, Research & Evaluation, Dr Alozie Chucks. The group recalled the difficult work environment of the agency staff posted from the headquarters of the Commission to Bayelsa, experienced for years. They noted that …

Emma Sunday The Nigerian Navy says it’s personnel from the NNS Pathfinder, have dismantled 5 illegal refining sites with 21 reservoirs in Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni Local Government Area (ONELGA) of Rivers State. The Commander, Nigerian Navy Ship (NNS), Pathfinder, Commodore Cajethan Nnabuchi Aniaku disclosed this in a statement he personally signed and made available to newsmen in Port Harcourt on Sunday. Commodore Aniaku disclosed that the operation against crude oil theft and illegal bunkering activities at ONELGA, was conducted on Saturday 14 June, 2025, by NNS PATHFINDER’s Tactical Riverine Assault Squadron Team. According to him, the dismantled sites which were used for…

Emma Sunday Pastor Joseph Egbu and his wife, Sinach, have felicitated with Obinna Egbu and his newly wedded wife, Vivian, on their wedding to seal their true love story. Obinna Egbu on Saturday wedded his heartthrob at the United States with friends and families attending the ceremony both physical and some following online. Pastor Joseph and wife extended their heartfelt congratulations to the couple as they celebrated their wedding ceremony and prayed to God to grant them a peaceful and prosperous marriage. Pastor Egbu, expressed excitement for the couple and wished them fruitful and happy home. “I pray to God…

By Amos Odhe, Yenagoa  Pipeline Infrastructure Nigeria Limited, PINL, the pipeline surveillance company in charge of pipeline security in the Eastern Corridor ot the Trans Niger Pipeline (TNP), has said that its operations have positively impacted the Niger Delta by reducing pipeline vandalism, a major contributor to the pollution of the region’s environment. The company recalled that before it was contracted to secure the pipelines three years ago, the Niger Delta environment was filled with black particles otherwise known as soot which was from the incomplete combustion of petroleum products by illegal refiners. But the company said through…

By Paul Williams Journalists in the Niger Delta have benefited from a two-day capacity building workshop aimed at equipping them with resources to enhance their reportage of environmental, gender and Nigerian Content issues. The workshop, tagged ‘Training On Environmental Justice Reporting,’ organised by Kebetkache Women Development and Resource Centre, in collaboration with the Centre for Gender Equity and Sustainable Development, and support from Ford Foundation, ran from June 12 to 13, 2025. It witnessed the participation of journalists from print, broadcast and Social Media platforms. Chairman, Center for Environment, Human Rights and Development, and ED, Center for Gender…

… as FG Warns against Pipeline Vandalism By Paul Williams  Pipeline Surveillance company, Pipeline Infrastructure Nigeria Limited (PINL), has approved a total of 646 scholarships and other packages for the 215 communities along the Trans Niger Pipeline (TNP) as part of its corporate social responsibility initiatives for its host communities. The announcement was made by Tarilah Alamieyeseigha, PINL’s Community Relations Executive, during the company’s monthly stakeholders’ meeting. The meeting convened in Port Harcourt for Rivers, Abia and Imo communities was aimed at reviewing the operations of the company on the Trans Niger Pipeline TNP. Alamieseigha also noted ongoing…

By Tife Owolabi My assessment of democracy is that it has morphed into an oligarchy – a government of the wealthy, by the wealthy, and for the wealthy. It’s been eroded and poisoned, and a poisoned tree can’t bear good fruit. This isn’t about the current regime, but palpable as they continue in their trajectory, and not peculiar to Africa. We have seen its entrenchment in the United States where Oligarchs installed President Donald Trump. It is on record that billionaires rallied him with 2 billion dollars to impose him on Americans. To many of us, it is…