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Crisis is looming in Rivers State over the controversial movement of Logistic Base, a subsidiary of Shell Nigeria Exploration and Production Company, SNEPCO, from Rivers State to Lagos as teeming protesters gearing to invade the SNEPCO base at the Onne Free Trade Zone over the matter were stopped. A major crisis was averted on Wednesday when ex-Militant Warlord, now HRM King Ateke Tom, Amanyanabo of Okochiri, Okirika local government area of the state and men of the Department of State Security Services, DSS halted the protesters. The youths fear that over 5,000 direct and indirect jobs in Rivers could be…

Abuja Federal High Court, Thursday, ordered Department of State Services (DSS) to pay N10 million as damages for infringing on the fundamental rights of a Bayelsa-based journalist as well as to pay him N500, 000 to cover the cost for the litigation. Jones Abiri had dragged the DSS before the court, challenging his illegal detention for more than two years and had also demanded compensation. Justice Nnamdi Dimgba of the court held that national security was not sufficient ground for the Department of State Service, DSS, to overide the rule of law and personal liberty of any citizen not facing…

The embattled Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, Wednesday night picked Peoples Democratic Party, PDP form for re-election into the House. Dogara, who was elected to represent Bogoro/Dass/Tafawa Balewa Federal Constituency of Bauchi state in the House of Representatives on the platform of APC in 2015, received the PDP House of Representatives form to contest during the 2019 general elections. The speaker picked the form, a day after dozens of his constituents travelled from his home state in Bauchi to Abuja to persuade him to seek re-election. Born to Yakubu Ganawuri and Saratu Yakubu on December 26, 1967, he…

The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has confirmed that the upcoming 2019 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) qualifier between the Super Eagles of Nigeria and Libya will take place at the Ahmadu Bello Stadium, Kaduna. After their victories of Seychelles and Liberia in an international friendly, the Super Eagles will return to action against Libya in October. The game against Libya in the AFCON qualifiers will be a double header which will go a long way to determine the teams that progress from the group. The Super Eagles are currently third in group E of the qualification series behind Libya and…

Nigerian states owing a backlog of salaries and other related staff arrears are given the condition to clear such before they could access the remaining $2.69 billion Paris Club refund. The Director of Information, Federal Ministry of Finance, Mr Hassan Dodo, on Tuesday, said the Federal Government would commence phased payments of the refund to the states once the condition and several others were met. “The DMO led the reconciliation process under the supervision of the Federal Ministry of Finance. The final approval of 2.69 billion dollars is subject to some conditions. “Salary and staff related arrears must be paid…

The Golden Eaglets of Nigeria will face the Black starlets of Ghana in the final of the 2018 WAFU Zone B U-17 AFCON. The final will hold on Saturday, September 15 with the winners of the WAFU Zone B representing the zone at the 2019 U-17 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) scheduled to hold in Tanzania. The Eaglets booked their place after Olakunle Olusegun doubled the lead for the Golden Eaglets when he curled a brilliant effort past the Niger goalkeeper in the 58 minute. The Niger side brought themselves back into contention with a late goal before extra time…

Power companies, under the aegis of Association of Nigerian Electricity Distributors, ANED, Wednesday, rejected the reprimand by the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission, NERC that it should not interfere with policy directives made by it and the Minister of Work, Power and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola. ANED, which opposed the decision of the regulatory body in a statement issued by its Chief Executive Officer, Azu Obiaya, in Abuja, said its activities were guaranteed by Section 40 of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria under the right of association. ANED noted that remarks by NERC discouraging its activities, was…

Adams Oshiomhole, the national chairman of All Progressives Congress, APC has come under heat for his recent claim on a live television programme that the incidence of vote buying started during ex-President Dr. Goodluck Jonathan administration. Jonathan in response via a statement signed by Ikechukwu Eze, his media aide, Wednesday, questioned Oshiomhole’s state of mind, who he said lauded his democratic credentials when he won his re-election bid a few years ago on the platform of Peoples Democratic Party. He said, “It may be that Oshiomhole’s false accusations against Jonathan stem from his own guilty conscience arising from the unenviable…

The All Progressives Congress, APC, has blasted reports of The Economist Magazine and HSBC on the 2019 general elections which predicted electoral defeat of President Muhammadu Buhari. In similar reports, The Economist Intelligence Unit, EIU, the research unit of The Economist Magazine and HSBC, a multinational banking and financial services company, stated that a second term for President Buhari would greatly stunt the economic development of the country, among other predictions on the Nigerian nation. In a statement Wednesday in Abuja, Yekini Nabena, acting National Publicity Secretary of the APC, queried the rationale behind the reports, urging the two bodies…

Two Nigerian students have won third position at the just-concluded Stockholm Junior Water Prize Competition in Sweden. The students who represented Nigeria occupied the position out of 42 countries that participated in the competition. The winners-Blessing Umoukpong and Iniso Edward from Northern Annang Secondary Commercial School, NASCO in Etim Ekpo local government area of Akwa Ibom State won prize on Water Purification Using Natural Plant Fiber. The students who took in the competition for the first time bagged Stockholm Junior Water Prize Diploma Certificate. The Akwa Ibom Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Charles Udoh, who broke the news to the…