After causing much controversy, former President Goodluck Jonathan and CBN governor Godwin Emefiele eventually stepped back from the presidential race.
''I would like to use this opportunity to commend your decision and courage to contest for elective offices and your ...
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"This morning, there was a valedictory session for 10 members of the Federal Executive Council who have indicated their desire ...
President Muhammadu Buhari had, earlier, on Wednesday, directed his appointees with plans to contest in the 2023 elections, to resign.
The aspirant previously described the PDP as “the bastion of hope, of democracy, and prosperity”.
The minister said he would never return to the PDP.
A civil society campaigner said that NDDC has 'failed woefully' under Mr Akpabio
"He (Buhari) has uplifted the integrity of the Nigerian nation. A lot can be said about all his amazing successes ...
Twenty-three aspirants have declared to run for president in the APC but only six have paid for the expression of ...
"Let me pronounce to you that you’ve had a lot of declarations, this one is uncommon. The message is not ...
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“The person that forged my signature will be arrested and prosecuted.”
Mr Adamu recently swore in Mr Ntukekpo as Akwa Ibom APC chairperson in total disregard of a court order asking ...
The commissioner in question resigned from Governor Udom Emmanuel’s cabinet a few days ago.
The contractors said they will protest in the Niger Delta region and the FCT if their debts are not paid ...
James Iniama says Akpabio's era as governor was the "most unsafe in the history of the oil-rich state".
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Prior to the last NDDC budget approval in 2020, the lawmakers had vowed not to pass any budget for the ...
The aide, however, says Nigerians deserve the right to know those responsible for the underdevelopment of the Niger Delta region.
PREMIUM TIMES reported how several NDDC projects were abandoned or non-existent despite the release of millions of naira for them.
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The minister said that the NRC would be unbundled into four subsidiaries.
A total of N28.1 billion was allocated to the Ministry of Niger Delta in the 2022 budget.
"The publicising of the proceedings made lawmakers to sit up and take the act of law-making, because no one wants ...
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There is an intense politicking in Akwa Ibom over who succeeds Governor Emmanuel in 2023.
The report recommends that members of the commission's board should work on a part-time basis.
The NDDC law mandates IOCs to pay three per cent of their revenue to the agency, but that has not ...
“Whatever you agree on, we will accept. At least, let us start from somewhere,” Mr Akpabio says.
