Voters in Port Harcourt

Pre-Election Preparations in Jeopardy

The collapse of plans to distribute voters cards to several of the largest states (including Rivers) in the first week of December amounted to nothing less than a debacle. The exercise was postponed in most states at just 24 hours notice.

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Gas flare in the Niger Delta identified by satellite

Why has the DPR decided to drop gas flare fines?

Hot on the heels of the launch of the Gas Flare Tracker in Abuja in November, the Nigerian Department for Petroleum Resources decides to drop all fines for gas flaring in Nigeria. How, might we ask, is this supposed to act as an incentive to stop gas flaring, as the DPR claims it will?

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