Quantcast
Channel: Niger Delta – Independent Nigeria
Browsing all 2498 articles
Browse latest View live

Urhobo elite bemoan Buhari, Emerhor over shabby treatment

By John Dugbe  / Special Correspondent, Ughelli   A group of Urhobo elite has flayed the presidential candidates of the All Progressive Congress (APC) Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (Retd), his Campaign...

View Article


Bayelsa rice farmers association insists on registering members

The Rice Farmers Association of Nigeria (RIFAN), Bayelsa State branch, has warned farmers yet to register to do so or face sanctions. The association’s state chairman, Mr. Ezekiel Ogbianko, gave the...

View Article


Biosah, Fisher to establish multi-million dollar studio in Asaba

Entertainment promoter, Dili Biosah, says he is collaborating with the famed music producer, Steve Fisher, to establish multi-million dollar world-class studio in Asaba. In an interview with the News...

View Article

Peterside in Eleme, pledges industries around Eleme Petrochemical complex if…

Governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State, Dr Dakuku Peterside, has said his administration would focus on industrialisation, developing agriculture and ensuring...

View Article

‘Otuaro key to Okowa’s Prosperity Pact with Deltans’

By John Dugbe /  Special Correspondent, Ughelli   An ex-president of National Union of Ijaw Students (NUIS), Edo State (now Ambrose Alli) University (AAU), Ekpoma chapter, Comrade Vincent Ubebe, says...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Group seeks support for Jonathan

A group, the Niger Delta and Eastern Alliance in the UK, on Sunday urged Nigerians to vote for President Goodluck Jonathan in the February election. President Goodluck Jonathan The chairman of the...

View Article

Idjerhe monarch holds thanksgiving service

By Sam Akadoro /  Special Correspondent, Sapele   The monarch of Idjerhe Kingdom, Erhiekevwe 1, has enjoined the entire people of his community to continue to live in peace so that more development and...

View Article

DESOPADEC inaugurates water project at Otefe

By Sam Akadoro / Special Correspondent, Sapele   The Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission (DESOPADEC) has commissioned a 10-tonne solar water borehole at Otefe, Oghara, Delta State....

View Article


Okowa will give victory to Delta PDP – Olusoji

By Sam Akadoro  /  Special Correspondent, Sapele   National coordinator of the National Youth Coalition for Jonathan/Okowa 2015, Prince Olatunji Olusoji, in association with the Tompolo Grassroots...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Urhobo group promises to work for Okowa’s victory

By John Dugbe / Special Correspondent,  Ughelli   Urhobo Awareness Youth Association has pledged to work for the victory of Senator Ifeanyi Okowa, Delta State, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)...

View Article

MOSTAN vows to stop pipeline vandalism, illegal bunkering

By John Dugbe / Special Correspondent, Ughelli   Collins Ajeboghouku, leader of the Warri Zone of Marine Oil Supplies and Transporters Association of Nigeria (MOSTAN), has reiterated the desire of the...

View Article

Group promises to mobilise support for Okowa

By John Dugbe  / Special Correspondent, Ughelli   Delta State Director of Youth Mobilisation of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Sunday Onoriode Eromedoghene, has said that only a sellable candidate...

View Article

Group confers award on Oyibode  

By Sam Akadoro  / Special Correspondent, Sapele   Chief Gabriel Chukwuma Oyibode, one of the aspirants who contested the Delta State Peoples Democratic Party primary for the governorship position, has...

View Article


Delta CP wants partnership with groups

By Sam Akadoro  / Special Correspondent, Sapele     Delta State Commissioner of Police, Mr Alkali Usman Baba, has urged Divisional Police Officers (DPOs) and officers in Sapele to partner with other...

View Article

Edo NMA issues 21-day ultimatum to govt over unpaid salary

Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) in Edo Sate has issued a 21-day ultimatum to the state government within which to pay the July and August 2014 salaries of doctors. The state NMA chairman, Prof....

View Article


NSCDC trains 100 officers in arms handling in Edo

Edo State Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) has graduated 100 officers that were trained in arms handling. Speaking at the ceremony, the state Commandant of the NSCDC, Mr...

View Article

Group canvasses support for Okowa’s guber aspiration

By John Dugbe  / Special Correspondent, Ughelli   A pressure group, Concerned Deltans for Okowa, has vowed to deliver the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Ifeanyi Okowa, in...

View Article


Egbema people raise committees, vow to deliver PDP candidates in Warri

Rising from a two-day enlarged meeting in Warri, Egbema people in Warri North council of Delta State have vowed to vote en masse for the candidates of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) vying for...

View Article

CLO seeks end to abuse of girl-child

The Civil Liberties Organisation has on called for an immediate end to all forms of abuses against the girl-child. Mr Livingstone Wechie, the CLO’s Publicity Secretary, made the call in an interview...

View Article

Electing Jonathan will benefit Nigerians –Awani

By John Dugbe Special Correspondent, Ughelli Delta State Director of G-15 Victory Platform, Ms Mercy Awani, has expressed confidence that Nigerians will be better off if President Goodluck Jonathan is...

View Article
Browsing all 2498 articles
Browse latest View live