Governor Henry Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa State has stated that the state government has con­cluded plans to engage more Bayelsans in 2015 with the establishment of a security company called Izon Ibe.

The Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Dr Steve Oru, says the Federal Government has empowered 1,031 non-militant youths in the region on various vocational skills since the inception of the ministry.

Barring any last minute administrative or technical setback, Kogi State would soon join the big league of Nigeria’s oil producing states when its first 200,000 barrels per day (bpd) refinery, undertaken by Creek Refinery and Petrochemicals

Delta State government said it will pay N90 million to offset the nine per cent interest rate of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) N2 billion micro, small and medium enterprises development funds (MSMEDF) to the state

Bayelsa state government on Monday, met with the management of the Nigerian Agip Oil Company, in a bid to resolve a number of issues bordering on crude oil production output within the state and the country generally, as well as the challenges being faced by the company.

As part of its corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiative, Ecobank Nigeria, at the weekend, handed over a multi-million naira hostel complex to the Delta State University, Abraka.

The Delta State Government, in conjunction with the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), recently disbursed N500 million to Micro, Small and Medium Scale Enterprises (MSMEs) in the state.

The Nigeria Government said on Tuesday it approved N800 million for the construction of a “state-of-the-art” library at the University of Port Harcourt, UNIPORT.

The Tony Elumelu Foundation has announced the launch of a $100m Pan-African entrepreneurship initiative – The Tony Elumelu Foundation Entrepreneurship Programme – a multi-year programme of training, funding, and mentoring, designed to empower the next generation of African entrepreneurs

The Minister/ Deputy Chairman, National Planning Commission, Dr. Abubakar Sulaiman, has disclosed that the sum of $10bn would be provided by the United Nation Development Program for the funding of the Niger Delta Action Plan over the next five years.