Linking Partners for Niger Delta Development

September 24, 2018

Delta: Floodwater Rising

  It was a pathetic situation, last Wednesday, as Governor Ifeanyi Okowa undertook a tour of some communities submerged by flood in Oshimili South local government […]
September 20, 2018

NLC threatens to embark on indefinite strike

  The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has said it will commence an indefinite nationwide strike after the expiration of the 14-day ultimatum given to the federal […]
September 20, 2018

PIND awards sub-grants under NDYEP project to nine partner organizations

  The Niger Delta Youth Employment Pathways Project (NDYEP) was launched by PIND Foundation in September 2017. With target sectors that include Agriculture, Information and Communication […]
September 20, 2018

Oil majors expect first ruling in Nigeria’s $1.3b oilfield scandal

  International oil companies, Shell and Eni, are carefully monitoring a first ruling this week by a Milan judge in one of the energy industry’s biggest […]
September 20, 2018

BudgIT: Lagos, Rivers, Delta, Others Pass Fiscal Sustainability Index Assessment

  A civic research institution, BudgIT, Tuesday adjudged Rivers, Bayelsa, Delta, Akwa Ibom, Lagos, Edo and Ondo States as being fiscally sustainable, citing their robust revenue […]
September 20, 2018

Mandela Washington Fellows Alumni Host Young Leaders Assembly

By Peace Obi In an effort aimed at positioning the Nigerian youths towards playing key roles in the realisation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in […]
September 19, 2018

MADE Holds Workshop in Edo on Ways to Check Human Trafficking

Market Development in Niger Delta (MADE) II, a DFID funded two-year programme using market systems to raise the incomes of at least 155,000 poor people, 50 […]
September 17, 2018

China proposes $2 billion textile industry for Abia, other states

President Muhammadu Buhari has secured a $2 billion loan to establish cotton plantation and textile factories in Abia, Kano and Lagos states. The presidency secured the […]
September 10, 2018

FG secures N179.9bn loan from China for modular refineries

  The Federal Government has secured a $500 million (about N179.9 billion) facility from the Export Import Bank of China (CEXIM) through the Bank of Industry […]
September 10, 2018

Nigerian firm wins maiden Shell Global Innovation Outstanding Performance Prize

  A Nigerian plastic-recycling company has won the maiden Shell Outstanding Achievement Prize in the 2018 Shell LiveWIRE Top Ten Innovators Awards. Bayelsa State-based De-Rabacon Plastics […]
September 7, 2018

FG, UNDP collaborate to mainstream SDGs in states, LGAs policies

The Office of the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Sustainable Development Goals (OSSAP-SDGs), says it is partnering with UNDP to mainstream SDGs in states […]
September 5, 2018

Greek Experts to Train 2,500 Amnesty Beneficiaries on Fishing

Ndubuisi Francis in Abuja Eight Greek experts in the maritime industry have arrived Nigeria to train 2,500 beneficiaries of the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP) on fishing. […]