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… Call for Total Ban on Genetically Modified Foods By Our Reporter  A coalition of over 80 civil society organisations have condemned what they described as “the inconsistency from Nigeria’s foremost agency responsible for safeguarding the health of Nigerians on matters of food and drugs with regard to the safety of GMOs.” The coalition includes civil society organisations, researchers, farmers, women and youth groups, “representing the interest of millions of Nigerians,” among whom are Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF), Environmental Rights Action and the GMO-Free Nigeria Alliance. In a release issued on August 9, 2025, the CSOs…

By Ehichioya Ezomon Many Nigerians – and certainly majority of Igbo, home and abroad – have followed the 10-year (since 2015) epic legal battle by the Nigerian government to link leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, to an alleged treasonable felony and terrorism, resulting to deaths and destruction. Yet, many Nigerians are unaware that Friday, October 10, 2025, could be “freedom day” for Kanu, whose journey to a long detention stemmed from his agitation for a separate “State of Biafra” from Nigeria – an attempt to resuscitate the defunct “Republic of Biafra” that…

States situated along the Nigeria’s coastline have stressed the need for the harmonisation of maritime laws in the country in order to strengthen security across the waterways and promote cross-border trade between Nigeria’s coastal communities and neighbouring countries. This was part of the recommendations at the conference organised by the Nigerian International Coastal Border Forum (NICBF) held at the Akwa Ibom State capital, Uyo. The Forum also demanded that a percentage of revenue from maritime taxes and crude oil exports be reserved and dedicated to the funding of coastal security of the states. In a communiqué issued at the end…

Chief Executive and Accounting Officer of the Provisionary Committee for the proposed Nigerian Coast Guard (PC-NCG), Capt Noah Ichaba has called on Nigeria’s littoral state governors to throw their weights behind the efforts of the Minister of Marine & Blue Economy, Adegboyega Oyetola, and other stakeholders to push for the speedy passage of the Nigerian Coast Guard Establishment Bill before the 10th National Assembly. Capt. Ichaba, fecilitating with the Bayelsa State Deputy Governor, Senator Lawrence Ewhrudjakpo on his emergence as the pioneer chairman of the International Coastal Border Platform also applauded Bayelsa for being the first state to create a…

In a well-deserved recognition of his outstanding contributions to human capacity development, HRH Chief Anabs Sara-Igbe Chairman South South Elders Forum has been honoured with the prestigious Niger Delta Media Practitioners of Nigeria (NDMPN) Award as Most Distinguished Niger Delta Elder Statesman of the Year 2024/2025. I It was torrents of encomiums and commendations for the Niger Delta Elder Statesman on Friday, 8th of August 2025 at his residence in Port Harcourt. In his address, the convener of the media group, Ambassador Joseph Asomeji stated the purpose of the group. He said, “The NDMPN is a group of practicing Mediamen…

Trainers and beneficiaries of a 3-month skills acquisition programme, organised by the Victorious Prayer Network, (also known as, King Makers Ministries), has barricaded the gates of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, to protest the commission’s reluctance to promises made to them. The protest by the Niger Delta women and youths at the weekend, we gathered disrupted an interactive session between executive management, staff of the commission and the Ministry of Regional Development at the NDDC event centre, along Eastern By Pass, Port Harcourt, Rivers State. The protesters alleged abandonment and neglect of their skills training centre by the NDDC,…

As Namibia emerges as Africa’s next major oil frontier, Heirs Energies CEO Osa Igiehon will take center stage at the Namibia Oil & Gas Conference (NOGC) 2025 to share the blueprint for building world-class African energy companies. Osa will headline the session – “The Making of an African Independent” – on 14 August, bringing hard-won insights from Heirs Energies’ transformation of Nigeria’s OML 17 into one of West Africa’s most successful indigenous-operated assets. The session opens with an exclusive fireside chat between Osa Igiehon and Dr. Clemens von Doderer of the Hanns Seidel Foundation Namibia, followed by a high-impact panel…

Breastfeeding mothers in Okrika Local Government Area have been called upon to maintain a clean environment to successfully breast feed their babies. This advice was given in Okrika yesterday by the Wife of the Administrator of Okrika Local Government Area in Rivers State, Lady Bessie Tamunobipiboye Isodiki while flagging off the World Breastfeeding Week at the Anyugu-Biri Community Health Centre, Okrika. Lady Isodiki said “it is only a clean environment that can guarantee exclusive breastfeeding”. She appealed to the mothers to obey instructions from health personnel in the interest of their babies in order to make them healthy at all…

Governor of Bayelsa State, Senator Douye Diri, has said that projects undertaken by his administration were inspired by the level of under-development and decades of neglect suffered by people of his ljaw ethnic nationality. Senator Diri stated this on Friday during an inspection of ongoing projects in three local government areas of the state. A statement by his spokesperson, Mr. Daniel Alabrah, informed that the projects inspected included the 630-metre Angiama-Oporoma link bridge, Oporoma road, Otuan road, Eniwari road in Southern Ijaw LGA, the Polaku/Sabagreia link bridge in Kolokuma/Opokuma LGA as well as the 25,000-capacity stadium, Glory Drive Phase 3,…