Linking Partners for Niger Delta Development

June 21, 2023

BRIDGES PROJECT AWARENESS CREATION WORKSHOP BEGINS IN 5 STATES

  The Bridges Project is a collaborative `intervention by The Foundation for Partnership Initiatives in the Niger Delta (PIND) and Ford Foundation to ensure the effective […]
October 12, 2018

Rivers, PIND focuses on job creation for youths to tackle crime

  The Rivers State Commissioner for Youths Development, Alfred Tobin, has identified massive creation of jobs for youths as antidote to crime in the state. Tobin […]
August 31, 2018

River State Labour Market Assessment Report 2017

The Nigeria Stability and Reconciliation Programme (NSRP) aim is to reduce violent conflict in Nigeria. The programme which is funded by the UK Department for International […]
April 20, 2018

WHO, UNEP engage stakeholders to ascertain cause of soot in Rivers

  Officials of the World Health Organisation (WHO), and the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) have commenced investigation into the cause of widespread soot in Rivers […]
February 20, 2018

Korfii Uebari: Promoting rural education in Ogoniland

  By Korfii Uebari  On the 15th of December 2017, the Innovative Preeminent Initiative organized a program on promoting rural education at; Community Primary School, Nortem […]
May 15, 2015

The Local Government elections in Rivers State and its implications for peace and security

In the build up to the 2015 general elections in Nigeria, there were fears and expectations from both local and international actors alike that the elections will be marred by violence. Following the manner in which the ruling People’s Democratic Party (PDP) and major opposition All Progressive Congress (APC) parties went about the electoral campaign. To some extent, the electoral campaigns pitted the electorate along religious and ethnic lines, leading to assumptions that the elections may result in chaos and possibly divide the nation.
July 11, 2014

Rivers Expresses Commitment To IFAD-Assisted Programme

The Rivers State Commissioner for Agriculture, Mr. Emma Chinda, said that the state government was committed to the implementation of the International Fund for Agricultural Development-assisted […]
May 20, 2014

FG Earmarks N2bn for Maritime Institute in Rivers

The federal government has said it would establish a maritime training institute at Obu-Ama in Degema Local Government of Rivers State to train ex-agitators in the […]