BY GODWIN ANYEBE The 210,000 barrels a day (b/d) Port Harcourt refinery, has been allocated three cargoes of domestic light sweet crude Bonny Light in April-May. This follows report by traders, suggesting that any issues affecting receipts in February and March might have been resolved. The refinery which restarted operations late last year following a […]
The story of the Port Harcourt Refinery’s alleged operation is one that stands out as a significant lesson in the developing tale of Nigeria’s petroleum industry. It is replete with deceit, laced with ineptitude, and a violation of public confidence. The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited’s (NNPCL) Group Chief Executive Officer (GCEO), Mele Kyari, has […]
Success Nwogu A retired Deputy Director of the Department of Petroleum Resources, Engineer Sunday Adebayo Babalola, on Monday said the rehabilitation of the Port Harcourt Refinery Company at $1.5 billion is a national disservice and a wasteful spending. The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, despite public outcry, had in April, 2021 signed a contract with an […]
The people and residents of Rivers State have been enjoined to support and sustain the peacebuilding efforts of Governor Nyesom Wike for a more progressive and peaceful state. READ ALSO: Wike chides UNIPORT management for involvement in mainstream politics Daily Times had learnt that the Secretary to the State Government (SSG), Dr Tammy Danagogo, made […]
A police inspector, identified as Hosea Yakubu, has reportedly been beaten to death by soldiers at Eleme Petrochemical gate, Port Harcourt, Rivers State. READ ALSO: How we helped Police rearrest serial killer Sunday… Daily Times Nigeria gathered that Yakubu and his colleague was said to have incurred the wrath of the soldiers when he drove […]
An illegal refinery with 300,000 litres of diesel and a large wooden boat containing 314 barrels of crude oil in Cawthorne channel, Port Harcourt, Rivers State has been discovered, a naval drone reveals. READ ALSO: Alleged oil theft : DPR hands over 9 vessels to Navy, EFCC According to reports, the illegal refinery was consequently […]
The Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State has struck out the suit filed by Mr. Omoregie Ogbeide-Ihama stopping Governor Godwin Obaseki from participating in today’s PDP governorship primary in Edo State. A counsel to the plaintiff, D. C. Denwigwe (SAN), had in an oral application during resumption of the hearing on Wednesday, […]
The Rivers state government has debunked rumours making the rounds that the body of the late Chairman of Asari-Toru Local Government Area, Odiari Princewill, has been exhumed from the Port Harcourt Cemetery, describing it as baseless and untrue. A statement signed by the state Commissioner for Information and Communications, Mr. Paulinus Nsirim, and circulated in […]
The embattled manager of the demolished Prudent Hotel, Alode-Eleme, near Port Harcourt, Rivers state, Dr. Bariledum Azoroh, has rejected the result of his coronavirus test presented to him on Sunday which was said to have come out positive. Recall that the manager was found guilty by a court for flouting Governor Wike’s COVID-19 Executive Order […]
…Orders their prosecution and testing for coronavirus …Declares that the trailers, cattle will be auctioned As the lockdown in parts of Rivers state continues, the Governor, Nyesom Wike, on Thursday effected the arrests of 14 persons hidden in two trailers conveying cattle from Adamawa state to Port Harcourt in spite of the border closure. Governor […]
The Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike has directed officials of the Local Government Task Force to identify hotels operating during the lockdown for demolition, following the spread on the COVID-19 pandemic in the country. Governor Wike gave the directive on Thursday while inaugurating the Rivers State COVID-19 Local Government Task Force at the Government House […]
Omega Power Ministries (OPM) worldwide has reopened its free restaurant in Port Harcourt, Rivers, to help feed the less privileged following the stay-at-home order aimed at curtailing the spread of the Coronavirus (COVID-19). A statement issued on Tuesday by Pastor Isaiah Gogo-Ogute, Public Relation Officer of OPM, quoted Apostle Chibuzor Chinyere, the General Overseer of […]
Unity has returned to the National Youth Council of Nigeria (NYCN) as all factions has closed their ranks and adopt Amb. Sukubo Saraigbe Sukubo as President of the apex youth body in Nigeria. The over eight years crisis rocking the council finally came to rest as factional leaders such as Amb. Oladele John Nihi, Comrade […]
A Port Harcourt woman Stabbed her husband to death during arguements. READ ALSO: FG approves new uniform for correctional service Another jealous wife poured her husband hot water for buying side chick brand new phone.
Port Harcourt – The Federal Government on Friday inaugurated a multi-million naira laboratory in Port Harcourt to detect and analyse samples of oil spillage in the country. The Minister of State for Environment, Mrs Sharon Ikeazor, disclosed this while also inaugurating the National Oil Spill Detection and Response Agency (NOSDRA) office building in Port Harcourt. […]
Growing up as a young boy in Port Harcourt, I developed a somewhat argumentative relationship with religion from the age of 12. I had been taught at Sunday school that Satan, a man I had never met, was responsible for the outbreak of measles and cholera that had ravaged many communities. He was the hidden […]
A final year student of University of Port Harcourt (UNIPORT) identified as Prince Digbani reportedly committed suicide at his off-campus apartment in Aluu on Monday November 25. The department of electrical engineering student was reportedly advised against committing suicide after hinting about it while telling his friends that “he doesn’t feel fulfilled”. Friends of the […]
Nigerian Navy has released the list of successful candidates in the 2019 recruitment interview held in Lagos between July 29 and Aug. 27. Navy Director of Information, Commodore Suleman Dahun, announced this in a statement on Thursday in Abuja, adding that the list could be accessed online at www.joinnigeriannavy.com. Dahun said the successful candidates would […]
Passengers using the Murtala Muhammed International Airport Ikeja will soon start enjoying free WiFi services at the airport. The airport manager, Mrs Victoria Shin-Aba who disclosed at this year’s customer service week organised by the servicom department of FAAN, said the provision of the free WiFi was part of the innovation introduced to improve on […]
Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike is in Ethiopia on the invitation of the management of Ethiopian Airlines to conclude talks on the operation of permanent international flights by the leading African Airlines from the Port Harcourt International Airport . At present, Ethiopian Airlines is operating temporary international flights from the Port Harcourt International Airport. […]