The government of U.A.E said yesterday that it would invest $16 billion in the development of Nigeria's oil and gas sector and other infrastructural development.

ebiChief Solomon Iyobosa Edri is the National Chairman of Peoples Progressive Party (PPP), one of the 50 registered political parties in the country. He recently spoke with Ike Abonyi in Abuja on Niger Delta and related issues

The federal government has given Bayelsa State government the nod to test run an oil well, OML 56, in the state.

THE new Pre-Paid Metering scheme of the Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) across the country may have run into a hitch as the new management team of the company has ordered its distribution zones to stop further installation of

Billionaire investor Aliko Dangote Tuesday commenced the telecom arm of his business by rolling out a transmission network on electricity lines belonging to the Power Holding Company of Nigeria.

National President of the Niger Delta Youth Council, Mr. Donatus Ebisin, has alleged that some politicians were planning to frustrate the development initiatives of the management of the Niger Delta Development Commission.

The President of the Nigeria Association of Chambers of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture (NACCIMA), Dr Simon ChukuwuEmeka Okolo, has urged President Umaru Musa Yar-adua to act fast and declare the much touted emergency in the power sector to put

ELDER statesman and Itsekiri leader, Pa Joseph Ayomike is a man who speaks his mind no matter whose ox is gored. The respected Chief says President Umaru Yar'Adua has no plan for the Niger-Delta and that the earlier the people

A new bill that will transform NNPC into National Oil Company Limited and compel it to make full disclosure to its stakeholders is now being considered by the National Assembly. The bill will strip the corporation of its present status

GOVERNOR Olugbenga Daniel of Ogun State yesterday lamented the deplorable state of power supply in the country saying that it remained the biggest shame the country was facing and a national embarrassment.

A faction in the Ugbuwangue community of Warri, Delta State, has locked out the Olare-Aja (Head) of the community, Ambassador Preston A. Egbe and prevented him from giving his new year message to his people in the community town hall.

The Day of reckoning on his covenant with the huddled masses of Ghana will arrive today when President Fiifi Atta Mills will be presented with a timely opportunity to make good on his promise to reduce the price of petrol

Barely a few days into the New Year, Yaounde is again in the grips of cooking gas scarcity.

Minister of the newly created Niger Delta Affairs Ministry, Ufot Ekaette, has declared that the region is in urgent need of development.

Energy minister, Emanuela Vieira Lopes, on Wednesday here announced the rehabilitation and expansion soon of the electricity networks in Malanje, Lunda-sul and Lunda-Norte provinces, ANGOP has learnt.

Uneasy calm may have pervaded the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), as indications emerged that the new Group Managing Director, Alhaji Mohammed Sanusi Barkindo is set to resume duty soon.

The Bayelsa State Government yesterday confirmed the receipt of an approval from the Federal Ministry of Petroleum to test an Oil well known as OML 56 located in the state.

Yobe's N46, 468 billionn proposed 2009 budget is being considered by many as the lowest presented to the Houses of Assembly in the country, but the Yobe State Commissioner's for Budget and Economic Planning, Alhaji Sani Musa Lawan, disclosed that

Minister of the newly-created Niger Delta Affairs Ministry, Obong Ufot Ekaette, says the region is in urgent need of development and not rhetoric.

ELDER statesman and Itsekiri leader, Pa Joseph Ayomike has said that after nearly 50 years of independence, he was of the opinion that Nigeria's independence in 1960 is a mistake because things have gone so bad and there is hypocrisy