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Heirs Energies, Africa’s largest indigenous-owned integrated energy company, has announced that its Chief Executive Officer, Osa Igiehon, will represent the company at the 2025 U.S.-Africa Energy Forum (USAEF), taking place on August 6–7, 2025 at the Post Oak Hotel in Houston, Texas. The Forum will bring together U.S. and African policymakers, financiers, and private sector leaders to discuss investment, innovation, and partnerships shaping Africa’s evolving energy landscape. Osa will deliver an Executive Insight and participate in the Explorers Town Hall session, sharing Heirs Energies’ perspective on how Africa can unlock its full energy potential responsibly and sustainably. Heirs Energies’ participation…

The Minister of Marine and Blue Economy, Adegboyega Oyetola, says the Federal Government is taking action to tackle the growing incidents of boat accidents across Nigeria’s waterways. The Minister who stated this in Abuja while receiving the report of the Special Committee on the Prevention of Boat Mishaps in Nigeria, declared the Federal Government’s resolve to act on the recommendations presented, adding that the time was ripe for Nigeria to consider deploying coastal guards to complement Nigeria Navy’s efforts along the waterways. According to the Minister, the safety of the citizens on waterways is not just a policy responsibility of…

•As community protests against moves to deny them of councilorship slot •Urges APC Leaders, HRH Damian Ejiohuo, others stakeholders to prevail  •Says zoning arrangement should be respected  Crisis is brewing in Rundele Clan Ward 7, in Emohua local government area of Rivers State over plans by immediate past Councilor of the ward, Hon. Emenike Wokama to return for second tenure in the forthcoming LGA elections in the state, against the over age-long zoning arrangement in the area. Leadership of the APC in Rundele Ward 7, inline with Rundele zoning formula in the clan’s representation at the Emohua Legislative Assembly, had…

The Administrator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP), Dr Dennis Otuaro, has appealed to ex-agitators in the Niger Delta to remain vigilant and resist the efforts of some politicians who are bent on destabilising the region for selfish ends. He noted with concern the recent rise in politically-charged rhetoric and coordinated attempts by some politicians to pit ex-agitators and beneficiaries of the programme against the Federal Government even ahead of the 2027 elections. Otuaro spoke at the end of the second batch three-day strategic Leadership, Alternative Dispute Resolution and Mediation Training organised by the PAP from July 30 to August…

The leadership of the Labour Party has faulted the decision by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to exclude the party candidates from the scheduled August 16 bye-elections for Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC), saying such action is unlawful, surprising and an abuse of power. The Labour Party, in an open letter to the INEC Chairman, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, and signed by the Legal Adviser, Bayelsa State, Barr Enu Kikanwa Timipre, stated that INEC’s decision to exclude their candidates without valid reasons is a clear overstepping of its regulatory mandate. Barr Timipre, in the letter titled “Re: Exclusion of Labour…

By Our Reporter Shaken by the brazen manner with which a prominent father and Vice Chairman of Obele Council of Chiefs was murdered on Saturday,July 19,2025 while presiding over a family meeting in a Compound Hall, the Administrator of Emohua Local Government Area, Comrade Barr Franklin Ajinwo has re-inaugurated the Emohua Vigilante Services (EMOVIS) and charged the operatives to assist the security agencies in the area in the task of crime fighting through early identification of probable trouble spots and sharing of vital information in time for necessary actions. He said they had the authority to arrest suspects and criminals,…

By Our Reporter  The umbrella body of Ijaw Elders, the Ijaw National Congress (INC) has rejected a proposed bill in the Senate seeking to permanently elevate the Ooni of Ife and Sultan of Sokoto as the exclusive Co-chairmen of the Traditional Rulers Council in Nigeria. The INC said the move would be at the expense of apex traditional rulers from other ethnic nationalities and geopolitical divides. The Second Vice Chairman of the Ijaw National Congress (INC), Chief Nengi James said in a statement in Odi, Kolokuma/Opokuma Local Government area of Bayelsa State, that the proposal is a continuos…

Operatives of the Rapid Response Unit of the Bayelsa State Police Command has recovered the corpse of missing Real Estate Magnate, Ekpeboh Richard from the forest between new NDDC road and Otuokpoti in Ogbia Local Government Area of the State. Police discovered the deceased was shot in the head in an execution manner and dumped in the bush. Ekpeboh Richard is the Vice Chairman of the Real Estate Consultants Association of Bayelsa State and hails from Ammassoma in Southern Ijaw Local Government area of the State. He is married with two kids. He left home on the 24th of July,…

By Mandy Willy A Customary Court sitting in Degema Local Government Area of Rivers State has adjourned to 8 August, 2025, for ruling on a suturari application in the ongoing inheritance dispute between Dr. Seinye Lulu-Briggs, widow of the late High Chief O.B. Lulu-Briggs, and his son, Chief Dumo Lulu-Briggs. Chief Dumo Lulu-Briggs had approached the court in suit DECC/RS/11/2025, seeking a determination based on Kalabari native laws and customs, questioning whether Seinye Lulu-Briggs is entitled to inherit from her late husband. He claimed she failed to observe the traditional mourning rites, including being by her husband’s bedside and…

‎ ‎By Colonel Emeritus IA Okereke ‎ ‎Let us, as a people, stop pretending. ‎ ‎We have overstayed our welcome in places where we once thrived as guests. The events of recent years — and particularly the misguided Igbo conduct in Lagos — have laid bare the ugly face of our arrogance, our lack of tact, and our dangerous detachment from reality. ‎ ‎When Yoruba people voted massively for Peter Obi, a candidate many Igbos promoted, we didn’t return their open-handedness with gratitude. No — we mocked them. We danced in their streets and declared that we had “defeated them…