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The Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Godswill Akpabio, has list members of the National Assembly, who allegedly got contracts from the Niger Delta Development Commission. The list was contained in a letter Akpabio sent to the National Assembly. The National Youth Council of Nigeria presented the document to the media in Abuja on Sunday. According to the letter, Akpabio listed ...

File: Emeka Nwajiuba Olalekan Adetayo, Friday Olokor and Ade Adesomoju The Federal Government on Thursday said pupils in Nigeria might be forced to sit for the General Certificate Examination in November, if the country failed to meet up with this year’s timetable for the West African Senior School Certificate Examination. The government explained that that might become necessary since the ...

Eyitayo Jegede has defeated the Deputy Governor of Ondo State, Agboola Ajayito emerge as the Peoples Democratic Party  (PDP)’s flag bearer for the Ondo State governorship election which is expected to take place on October 10. Jegede was announced as the winner after the delegates cast their votes at the party’s primary which held at the International Culture and Events Center, the ...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, is set to arraign the duo of Sarah Omeigha Ajibola and John Ozovehe Demide before a Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos. They will be docked for allegedly conspiring to rig the 2018 general elections of the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA. EFCC had, on May 5, 2020, filed a 14-count charge against ...

By Elo Edremoda, Warri At least 17 persons were reportedly burnt to death in a tanker explosion near Koko junction section of the Benin/Sapele Expressway, Ethiope West council area of Delta state on Wednesday. Four vehicles were also said to have been destroyed in the incident, which multiple sources said happened around 8am. The Police however said only three persons ...

Femi Gbajabiamila Femi Gbajabiamila, speaker of the House of Representatives, says the panel probing the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) can re-invite Kemebradikumo Pondei, acting managing director of the agency, if there is the need to do so. Pondei was taken to a hospital after he fainted while he was being grilled by the committee probing the alleged mismanagement of N81.5 billion by the interim management committee (IMC) of ...

ABUJA- FORMER leader of the Senate and Chairman, Senate Committee on Army, Senator Ali Ndume, All Progressives Congress, APC, Borno South said yesterday that he never called for the sack of Service Chiefs. According to him, there was no way he would have asked President Muhammadu Buhari to sack the Service Chiefs knowing full well that at the moment, the ...

Niger Delta minister, Godswill Akpabio,has said that most of the contracts of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) are given out to members of the National Assembly,  Mr Akpabio said this during Monday’s investigative hearing held to probe the allegations of corruption in the NDDC. The revelation unsettled the hall briefly, but the deputy chairman of the committee, Thomas Ereyitomi, who headed ...

Pondei collpased The Acting Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NNDC), Prof Kemebradikumo Pondei has collapsed at the ongoing probe by the House of Representatives. Pondei collapsed during the ongoing probe of the Commission by the House Committee on NDDC on Monday. The panel is investigating alleged N40 billion irregular expenditure in the commission. Pondei reportedly collapsed when ...

The National Assembly Service Commission has appointed Ojo Amos Olatunde as acting clerk. The appointment comes a day after the commission queried Mohammed Sani-Omolori for refusing to retire as clerk of the national assembly after 35 years in service. More to follow…