Archives for January, 2014 - Page 2

Ex- Gov. Mu’azu, is new PDP chairman

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Alhaji Adamu Mu’azu The Peoples Democratic Party led by President Goodluck Jonathan has appointed a former Governor, Bauchi State, Alhaji Adamu Mu’azu, as its new party chairman. Mu’azu is to replace the former chairman, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, whose resignation was announced by President Goodluck Jonathan. Mr. Mu’azu emerged the consensus candidate for the job after a rash of ...

2015: Nobody Can Stop Jonathan – Activist

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Tejiri Ebikeme/Francis Sadhere A Niger Delta Activist, Apostle (Dr.) Clement Tonfawei has thrown his weight behind the re-election bid of President Goodluck Jonathan in the 2015 general election, saying nobody can stop the President. Apostle (Dr.) Clement Tonfawei In an exclusive interview with National Reformer, today in Warri, Delta State, Tonfawei lauded the achievements of President Jonathan ...

Delta NLC Boss Advocates for Establishment of Accident Support Agency

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Tejiri Ebikeme/Francis Sadhere Chairman, Delta State Council of Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Comrade Williams Akporeha has advocated for the establishment of Accident Support Agency by the State Government. Comrade Williams Akporeha with Mrs. Rosemary Bethland, at her hospital bed at the Ekpan General Hospital when he paid her a visit. The NLC Boss made this advocacy when ...

APC is like any other party – Bayelsa SA on Security

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Jesse Ese, Yenagoa As minds begin to ponder on what will be the political shape of Bayelsa; as the All Progressives Congress (APC) try to force its way into the state, the Special Adviser to the Governor of Bayelsa State on Security, Lt. Col. Bernard Kenibai (rtd), has stated that the APC is a registered party ...

N’ Delta ministry trains 86 indigenes in Various Aspects of farming

Francis Sadhere The Ministry of Niger Delta Affairs has trained 86 indigenes of the region in various aspects of agriculture as part of the strategies to arrest criminality and restiveness in the oil-rich belt of the country. The beneficiaries were trained at Galilee International Institute, Israel and Songhai Integrated Farms, Porto-Novo, Republic of Benin, in many areas ...

SSANU Vows to Resist Plan to Retrench Non-Teaching Staff in Nigerian Universities

Francis Sadhere THE Senoir Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU), Delta State University branch, has vowed to resist the implementation of the report of the committee on NEEDS Assessment by the Federal Government. Comrade Goodluck A. Ohwavborua, SSANU, Chairman, DELSU branch in his address at the public lecture on the Committee on NEEDS Assessment and contemporary issues ...

Fenog records another feat, lays 24″ pipes across 2.82-kilometre Kwale/ObOb River for Agip

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 As the pioneer user of the HDD technology in the Nigeria's oil and gas industry, an indigenous oil servicing company, Fenog Nigeria Limited (FNL) in August 2010 successfully laid gas pipes across the 1.7-kilometre Escravos River in Warri South West Local Government Area of Delta State, with the aid of the HDD initiatve. The feat ...

DELTA NLC BOSS SUES FOR PEACE AND UNITY WITHIN CONGRESS

Francis Sadhere The Chairman, Delta State Council of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Comrade Williams Akporeha has appealed to members of Congress in the state to shun acts capable of causing disunity and rancour among labour leaders in Delta State. Comrade Akporeha made this appeal at the state Congress Administrative Council meeting held on Tuesday this week. ...

WARRI ROADS AND CORPORATE SOCIAL (IR)RESPONSIBILITY

The Late Satyagraha and Social Crusader, Tai Solarin, in one of his anecdotal portrayals posited that, “the hand of an elderly man cannot enter the gourd and the child cannot carry it. It therefore behooves both of them to get out the content of the gourd and to carry it forward through co-operation”. The lack of ...

PDP chairman, Bamanga Tukur resigns

  After months of intrigues and political maneuvering, embattled National Chairman of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, Thursday bowed to pressure and resigned his position. A source said that Tukur has tendered his letter of resignation to President Goodluck Jonathan, who is expected to read the letter to members of the National Caucus when they ...

Fenog Completes Offshore Gas Pipelines, Raises Hopes Of Improved Gas Supply To Power Stations

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An indigenous oil and gas servicing company, Fenog Nigeria Limited (FNL) has completed a 2.82-kilometre gas pipelines designed to convey gas from the fields of the Nigeria Agip Oil Company (NAOC) to the Bonny plant of the Nigerian Liquidified Natural Gas in Rivers State. Construction going on at the site The project, awarded to FNL by ...

Politicians Must Account For SURE-P Money, Otherwise The Masses Will Revolt – Biukeme

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Alaowei Afro Biukeme, former Delta State governorship candidate of the Mega Peoples Progressive Party (MPPP) in the 2011 election and a Niger Delta Activist in this interview with the crew of National Reformer of Francis Sadhere and Christopher Odamah made it known that he is not happy with the management of the SURE-P money by ...