Integrity Reporters

Bayelsa Deputy Governor Lawrence Ewhrudjakpo Dies After Sudden Collapse in Govt House   Philip Jeremiah Eke, Yenagoa Bayelsa State was thrown into mourning on Thursday, December 11, 2025, following the sudden death of its Deputy Governor, Senator Lawrence Ewhrudjakpo. Ewhrudjakpo, aged 60, reportedly collapsed in his office at the Government House, Yenagoa, at about 1:30 p.m. Witnesses described a chaotic scene as...

A Nation on Alert: Is FIRS’ Xpress Payments Move Consolidating a Revenue Cartel? BY BLAISE UDUNZE   Nigeria’s national mood is tense. The country is facing economic hardship, insecurity, public distrust in institutions, and an increasingly widening gap between citizens and their government. Yet, in the midst of this fragility, a quiet administrative action by the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) has...

President Tinubu commends Nigeria's Armed Forces for protecting democracy in Benin Republic President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has commended the gallantry of Nigeria's military on Sunday for responding swiftly to the request by the Government of Benin Republic to save its 35-year-old democracy from coup plotters who struck at dawn today. Acting on two separate requests from the Government of Benin, President...

UNESCO, SUBEB begin sensitisation, school mapping in Bayelsa Philip Jeremiah Eke   The United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) has inaugurated a Sensitisation and School Mapping Exercise under the EU–UNESCO Education and Youth Empowerment Project (Phase II) in Bayelsa State.   The initiative, which is in partnership with the Bayelsa Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB), is targeted at six focus states across...

Dangote Refinery to Supply 1.5bn Litres of Petrol Monthly   …Writes NMDPRA, Engages Marketers to Stabilise Fuel Market     Dangote Petroleum Refinery has announced plans to supply one billion five hundred million litres of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) monthly to the Nigerian market in December 2025 and January 2026, a move aimed at ensuring uninterrupted nationwide fuel availability through the festive season and...