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CAPPA To Sanwo-Olu: Probe Past Spendings In State’s Water Sector Since 1999 The decades-old water crisis in Lagos has worsened in recent times, leaving millions of residents without safe and portable water to battle the ravaging Covid-19 pandemic, a report by Corporate Accountability and Public Participation Africa (CAPPA) has revealed. The report which was presented…
March 23, 2021
Seeks Speedy Enactment Of Regulations To Stop 'Time Bomb' Among Nigerians, little is known about the 'killer' trans fat, alternatively referred to as 'bad fat' in food, yet the toxic chemical is in the meals consumed daily by a far majority of the Nigerian population estimated to be over 200 million people. Described as a…
March 20, 2021
By Abiola Olawale Environmental Rights Action (ERA) has raised alarm over the continuous flaring of gas by Agip facility -- a Flow Station located in Ogboinbiri, a community in Apoi clan of Bayelsa State, adding that flaring of gas has become life-threatening to residents in the area. According to ERA, air in Ogboinbiri community…
February 23, 2021
By Abiola Olawale The Royal Dutch (RDS) Shell has filed a suit against the Nigerian government at the World Bank’s International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) over a $479 million compensation claim following the environmental ruins in Ejama-Ebubu, Rivers state. Shell is challenging an order of Supreme Court of Nigeria, on November 30,…
February 15, 2021
By Abiola Olawale The First Bank of Nigeria (FBN) has ran into legal conundrum as authorities on Tuesday confiscated the bank's assest in Port Harcourt over the $479 million (N189 billion) judgement debt owed Ejama-Ebubu, a community in Tai Eleme Local Government, Rivers State by the Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) of Nigeria. Federal High…
January 15, 2021
A pigeon that travelled across the Pacific Ocean is to be put down after running afoul of Australia’s strict quarantine rules. The bird reportedly went missing during a race in the US state of Oregon in late October, before turning up in Melbourne almost two months later. But officials say the pigeon, which has been…
January 15, 2021
From Ameachi Prosper (The New Diplomat's Delta Correspondent) Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State says the federal government has been playing politics with the Ogoni environment remediation programme recommended by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). He noted that Ogoni having played a pivotal role in the economic development of Rivers State and the country…
January 6, 2021
*Survey Results From Collated Field Data Show Why The South South Geo-political Zone Are Demanding A Direct Disbursement of  13% Derivation Fund to Host Oil Producing Communities As A first line Charge, As Provided in the 1999 Constitution. By Hamilton Nwosa (Head, The New Diplomat’s Polling, Research & Data Desk. With Field Reports from our…
December 18, 2020
From Ameachi Prosper (The New Diplomat's Delta Correspondent) A contempt charge has been instituted against the governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele over his alleged refusal to order the payment of N182 billion to Ogoni people in Rivers State. The N182 billion was awarded against oil giant, Shell Petroleum Development Company over…
December 16, 2020
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CAPPA To Sanwo-Olu: Probe Past Spendings In State’s Water Sector Since 1999 The decades-old water crisis in Lagos has worsened in recent times, leaving millions of residents without safe and portable water to battle the ravaging Covid-19 pandemic, a report by Corporate Accountability and Public Participation Africa (CAPPA) has revealed. The report which was presented…
March 23, 2021
Seeks Speedy Enactment Of Regulations To Stop 'Time Bomb' Among Nigerians, little is known about the 'killer' trans fat, alternatively referred to as 'bad fat' in food, yet the toxic chemical is in the meals consumed daily by a far majority of the Nigerian population estimated to be over 200 million people. Described as a…
March 20, 2021
By Abiola Olawale Environmental Rights Action (ERA) has raised alarm over the continuous flaring of gas by Agip facility -- a Flow Station located in Ogboinbiri, a community in Apoi clan of Bayelsa State, adding that flaring of gas has become life-threatening to residents in the area. According to ERA, air in Ogboinbiri community…
February 23, 2021
By Abiola Olawale The Royal Dutch (RDS) Shell has filed a suit against the Nigerian government at the World Bank’s International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) over a $479 million compensation claim following the environmental ruins in Ejama-Ebubu, Rivers state. Shell is challenging an order of Supreme Court of Nigeria, on November 30,…
February 15, 2021
By Abiola Olawale The First Bank of Nigeria (FBN) has ran into legal conundrum as authorities on Tuesday confiscated the bank's assest in Port Harcourt over the $479 million (N189 billion) judgement debt owed Ejama-Ebubu, a community in Tai Eleme Local Government, Rivers State by the Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) of Nigeria. Federal High…
January 15, 2021
A pigeon that travelled across the Pacific Ocean is to be put down after running afoul of Australia’s strict quarantine rules. The bird reportedly went missing during a race in the US state of Oregon in late October, before turning up in Melbourne almost two months later. But officials say the pigeon, which has been…
January 15, 2021
From Ameachi Prosper (The New Diplomat's Delta Correspondent) Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State says the federal government has been playing politics with the Ogoni environment remediation programme recommended by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). He noted that Ogoni having played a pivotal role in the economic development of Rivers State and the country…
January 6, 2021
*Survey Results From Collated Field Data Show Why The South South Geo-political Zone Are Demanding A Direct Disbursement of  13% Derivation Fund to Host Oil Producing Communities As A first line Charge, As Provided in the 1999 Constitution. By Hamilton Nwosa (Head, The New Diplomat’s Polling, Research & Data Desk. With Field Reports from our…
December 18, 2020
From Ameachi Prosper (The New Diplomat's Delta Correspondent) A contempt charge has been instituted against the governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele over his alleged refusal to order the payment of N182 billion to Ogoni people in Rivers State. The N182 billion was awarded against oil giant, Shell Petroleum Development Company over…
December 16, 2020
