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Oil producing communities decry under-development despite $5.8bn mandatory payments

Communities lament increased rate of abandoned projects and exclusion from the needs assessment as well as budgetary decision-making processes carried out by the NDDC. Urges President Muhammadu Buhari to act on report of the forensic audit of the NDDC and fulfil his promise of recovering every stolen kobo        Oil-producing communities in the Niger Delta region have continued to decry underdevelopment in their states in spite of the establishment of interventionist approaches like...

OPINION: Fr Alia and tempering expectations

There’s need to look a little beyond the populism driving the candidacy of the APC gubernatorial candidate in Benue State, writes Sesugh Akume   If the trend as seen from last Saturday’s presidential and National Assembly continues, in another week Benue will be voting Reverend Father Hyacinth Alia by a landslide as governor. Except the miraculous happens, the election next Saturday seems a mere formality. The people love Fr Alia, as he has been in their...

Media Rights Agenda’s Office burgled, valuables worth millions of naira stolen

          Civil Society Organisation, Media Rights Agenda (MRA) on Monday announced today that its office in Lagos was burgled and ransacked over the weekend by a group of unidentified intruders who made away with nine laptop computers and other valuable equipment worth millions of naira. In a statement issued in Lagos, by the MRA’s Head of Legal Department, Ms. Obioma Okonkwo, she described the incident as a shocking and frightening attack...

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