Linking Partners for Niger Delta Development

September 5, 2018

Total to build N40 million soap manufacturing plant in Akwa Ibom

  Francois Le-Cocq, Deputy Managing Director, Total Exploration and Production, Port Harcourt, says the company is to spend N40 million to build a soap manufacturing plant […]
September 4, 2018

UK’s £70m programme plan to create 100,000 jobs in Nigeria

  The United Kingdom Department for International Development in Abuja on Monday gave details on how the UK government plans to create 100,000 jobs in Nigeria […]
September 3, 2018

PIGB detrimental to Niger Delta’s interest, stakeholders insist

  A tacit endorsement of President Muhammadu Buhari’s decision not to sign the troubled Petroleum Industry Governance Bill (PIGB) appear came from some stakeholders in the […]
August 31, 2018

Uyo: a city of clean dwellers

  By Chimezie Anajama Eka Emma is a street food vendor. Daily, except on Sundays, she cooks white rice, stew, porridge beans, Edikaikong and Afang soups, […]
August 31, 2018

The U.N.’s Sustainable Development Goals? There’s an App for That.

Entrepreneurs are leveraging technology, including smartphone apps, to accomplish what bureaucracies are incapable of achieving alone. The U.N.’s Sustainable Development Goals, a set of 17 objectives […]
August 31, 2018

EFCC Seeks New Law To Prosecute Contractors Who Abandon Projects in the Niger Delta

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) yesterday sought a new legislation against corrupt behaviour by political office holders. The acting chairman of the commission, Ibrahim […]
August 31, 2018

Penspen, Crestech win big Niger Delta gas projects

Penspen, a leading global provider of engineering and project management services to the energy industry, and Nigerian engineering firm Crestech, have jointly won a major contract […]
August 31, 2018

FG to train 2500 amnesty beneficiaries in fishing

  No fewer than 2500 beneficiaries of the Presidential Amnesty Programme are to be trained in the fishing sector in line with the federal government’s Economic […]
August 30, 2018

NNPC to establish 200,000 bpd condensate refineries

  The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) is to establish two condensate refineries with 200,000 barrels per day (bpd) refining capacity at Western Forcados Area and […]
August 28, 2018

Niger Delta teachers develop curriculum on renewable energy

Teachers from different schools in the Niger Delta have developed a curriculum that would guide the teaching of renewable energy in secondary schools and created learning […]
August 27, 2018

PIND budgets N3.4 million for investigative, development stories around Niger Delta

The Foundation for Partnership Initiatives in the Niger Delta (PIND) has budgeted N3.4 million under its 2018 PIND Media Solution Journalism Innovative Grant for Peace Building […]
August 23, 2018

UN Foundation, Partners Announce Winners of SDG Challenge for Female Entrepreneurs

The UN Foundation, the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability of Arizona State University (ASU) and Vital Voices announced five winners of the WE Empower […]