He said that money appropriated for the programme is usually channelled towards payment of monthly stipends, funding of tertiary education for students under its scholarship among others.
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Fashola gave the ultimatum on Thursday in Abuja at a meeting with representatives of communities along the corridor of the project and officials of Julius Berger PLC, the contractor.
The Minister of Interior, Lieutenant General Abdulraman Dambazau (retd), said this on Wednesday when he met the Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, Commissioners of Police and other senior officers at the Force Headquarters in Abuja
Rabiu Suleiman, the Senior Technical Adviser to the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, made this known at the ongoing Nigeria International Petroleum Summit in Abuja on Wednesday.
Capt. Victor Choji, the Executive Officer of the Nigerian Navy Ship Pathfinder, Port Harcourt, told newsmen on Friday that the product was suspected to have been stolen from pipelines in Niger Delta.
Boroh, also the Coordinator, Presidential Amnesty Programme said this when 25 Ijaw Youths groups held a rally at the gates of the Presidential Amnesty Office in Abuja on Tuesday.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Minister of Interior, (rtd.)Lt.-Gen. Abdulrahaman Danbazau inaugurated the steering committee for the implementation of the SGI JCAP.
Their partnership aims to holistically address, through innovative interventions, the economic plight of communities affected by armed conflict or violence.
Giving reasons for the visit, the Grand Patron and Leader of the group, Comrade Joseph Evah, said there are over 100 groups in the Niger Delta and all these groups are across the South West.
This is coming barely a month after she won a $5,000 merit category prize in the Shell LiveWIRE top 10 innovators competition, a global contest open to beneficiaries of Shell LiveWIRE and aimed at rewarding shining cases of innovation in businesses supported by the programme
Prof. Eghosa Osaghae, the Vice Chancellor of the institution, announced this during the 15th convocation of the institution
It is almost a recurring decimal and it comes in a pattern that is very predictable: anytime the government seems to have a disagreement with any of the leaders of the region, these youth – a few of them actually – turn themselves in as a cannon fodder. This trend is clearly a betrayal of the noble intentions of the original agitators who stood firm to point fingers directly at the neglect and abandonment of the Niger Delta areas over the years that government explored wealth from the ground and waters of the region.
Olonisakin said at the inauguration of the boats in Warri that the recent threat by the Niger Delta Avengers to resume hostilities in the region was a sad commentary on the collective security of the environment.
In a statement issued on Friday, the Acting Director of Naval Information, Capt. Suleiman Dahun, said that the 20 boats would be inaugurated on Nov. 11 at the Nigerian Navy Ship, Warri-Delta.
Speaking at the graduation ceremony in Yenagoa, Igo Weli, General Manager, SPDC, said that the company had so far empowered 6, 580 youths from the Niger Delta under the ‘LIVEWIRE’ entrepreneurship programme for youths between age 18 and 35.
The Director of Public Relations and Information, NAF Headquarters, Air Commodore Olatokunbo Adesanya, disclosed this in a statement on Tuesday in Abuja.
Seeded with funding from Royal Dutch Shell (Shell), All On works with partners to increase access to commercial energy products and services for underserved and unserved off-grid energy markets in Nigeria, with a special focus on the Niger Delta.
“The Nigerian Army has done a wonderful job, detractors have failed,” Wike, who was represented by Kenneth Kobani, the Secretary to the Rivers State Government, said.
Buratai announced the redeployment at the closing of Exercise Crocodile Smile II in Igwuruta, Ikwerre Local Government Area of Rivers State.
Colonel Aminu Iliyasu, the Division’s Deputy Director, Army Public Relations, said in a statement on Thursday that several drugs, arms and ammunitions were seized from the suspects.