Niger Delta

30 April 2021

How State Governments Cheat Oil-producing Communities In the Use of 13% Derivation Fund

Despite their economic and geostrategic significance, oil-producing communities in Nigeria often suffer from lack of development and other environmental challenges. 13% of the federal allocation was […]
31 March 2021

Over N6trn received from 13% deprivation fails to impact lives in Oil-producing states

Rather than being used to improve residents’ conditions in the oil-producing communities, the 13 per cent derivation fund is being mismanaged, diverted and siphoned while the […]
8 November 2017

Everything you need to know about the 2018 proposed budget of consolidation

by Ajadi Daniel 2018 proposed budget stands at N8.612 trillion Capital Expenditure in the 2018 proposed budget is 30.8 percent of the entire budget, it stands […]
16 May 2017

FG to terminate six abandoned projects in Niger Delta

by YWriter The Ministry of Niger Delta Affairs has concluded arrangements to terminate about six abandoned projects spread across the region with a view to enhance […]
16 December 2016

Federal tracker: Crude oil discovered in Borno…………?

by Usman Alabi Analysis Federal government said yesterday that crude oil had been discovered in Borno state without specifying the exact location where it was discovered […]
30 November 2016

States’ Budget Performance in the face of recession

by Ajadi Daniel Analysis Even a lay man knows that this is a peculiar period in the country’s economic sojourn, not only because of the recession, […]
16 September 2016

Analysis: Beaming the searchlight on Nigeria’s Ecological Funds

by Usman Alabi It has become imperative to beam a searchlight on the ecological funds, a fund that a large section of the population knows nothing […]