ShareShareTweetPin0 SharesHires fresh 2000 Indians as replacements The management of Dangote Petroleum Refinery has laid off about 800 of its Nigerian workers less than 24 hours after the majority of them joined the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN), while at the same recruiting about 2000 foreigners, all Indians. The move…
ShareShareTweetPin0 Shares•Named 2025 South-South Nigeria humanitarian personality History was again inscribed on the sands of humanitarian excellence at the South-South Nigeria Excellence Awards 2025, when Dr Christopher Okongko, President of the Okongko Charity Foundation, was decorated with the prestigious South-South Nigerian Humanitarian Personality Award by the Global Skills Hub, United Kingdom. The high-profile investiture staged…
ShareShareTweetPin0 Shares Akwa Ibom revenue court enters N1.2bn judgment against oil company The Akwa Ibom State Revenue Court sitting in Uyo, the state capital, and presided over by Justice Maureen-Idongesit M. Udoka, has ordered an oil servicing company operating in the state, Ardent Energy Services Ltd, to pay N1.2bn into the coffers of the…
ShareShareTweetPin0 SharesBy Michael Ukanga Ekpo #AriseRenewedHopeMedia Governor Pastor Umo Eno is steadily carving out a reputation for running a government that carries everyone along. In a short while, his administration has earned praises for the policies that place inclusivity at the centre of governance in Akwa Ibom State. A Government that listens; from women and…
ShareShareTweetPin0 SharesGovernor Umo Eno of Akwa Ibom State has rekindled his ties with the media community by commissioning an ultra-modern auditorium complex of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) in Uyo. The complex, located within the Union’s Secretariat along Information Drive, was built to promote media activities in the state. During the commissioning ceremony, Governor…
ShareShareTweetPin0 SharesBy Emmanuel Ntekim Akwa Ibom State High Court sitting in Uyo has sentenced a soldier and armed robbers to death by hanging for robbing tricycle operators, popularly known as keke riders, at gunpoint in Uyo, the Akwa Ibom State capital. The soldier who is Lance Corporal in the 6 Battalion, Nigerian Army, Ibagwa Barracks,…
ShareShareTweetPin0 SharesNews Seplat committed to strengthening education in Nigeria – Spokesman At a time when worries over poor public education funding, examination malpractices and general dip in education quality in Nigeria, Seplat Petroleum Energy Unlimited says it has invested hugely in the uplift of education in the country. According to its General Manager, Public and…
ShareShareTweetPin0 SharesDecries High Turnover of NDDC Management Team The President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio has said that the people of the Niger Delta had decided to support President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to continue in office beyond 2027, because of the projects that the administration has brought to the Niger Delta region. Akpabio made the…
ShareShareTweetPin0 SharesBy Jackson Udom Exactly two years today, 13th June, 2025, Senator Godswill Akpabio, clocks two years in office as the President of the 10th Senate and Chairman, National Assembly of Nigeria, having contested, won and sworn-in on the 13th of June 2023. As the President of the 10th Senate, the Ukana-born lawyer cum politician…
ShareShareTweetPin0 SharesThe Nigerian Army has reportedly killed Ya Muhammad and Abou Dawuda, two terrorists described as prominent commanders of the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP). According to Zagazola Makama, a security expert in the North-east, the terrorists were killed during a failed attack in Damboa. “Two top commanders of the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP),…
