Senate Minority Leader Aquilino Pimentel III has thrown his full support to a call of Senator Rafael ‘’Raffy’’ Tulfo for the Senate to use the budget process to hold government agencies, particularly the National Irrigation Administration (NIA), responsible for losses of billions of pesos...
DAGUPAN CITY – The National Irrigation Administration (NIA)-Ilocos is preparing for the coming El Niño. A BACKYARD garden like this is feared to bear the brunt of the looming El Niño. (Liezle Basa-Inigo) NIA-Ilocos Manager Engr. Gaudencio de Vera said they have come up with several...
The Philippines would need P2 trillion to irrigate some 1.2 million hectares of potentially irrigable areas in the country, National Irrigation Administration (NIA) Acting Administrator Eduardo Guillen said on Tuesday, April 18. (Photo courtesy of Bloomberg/Getty Images) During a media briefing...
President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. directed government agencies to come up with a “whole-of-nation” and “whole-of-government” approach in preparing for the El Niño phenomenon that could hit the country this year. President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. at a sectoral meeting...
State-run Power Sector Assets and Liabilities Management Corporation (PSALM) has moved to May 16 this year the sale of the 165-megawatt Casecnan hydropower facility instead of March 28. According to PSALM President Dennis Edward A. Dela Serna, the asset-seller firm has yet to finalize the Water...
The National Irrigation Administration (NIA) has turned over around P45 million worth of project which uses solar power in the irrigation system for farmers in Surigao del Norte. In a statement, NIA Caraga Regional Manager, June S. Plaza sad the project was turned over to the Sta. Paz Farmer...
President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. has designated former Piddig, Ilocos Norte mayor Eduardo Guillen as the acting administrator of the National Irrigation Administration (NIA). Former Piddig mayor Eduardo Guillen (Photo courtesy of the DA) Malacañang confirmed that Guillen took his oath as...
ILOILO CITY — South Koreans experts said that the ongoing P13-billion mega dam project has reduced flooding in Calinog town, Iloilo province. AN illustration of how the mega dam project prevented flashflood in Calinog town, Iloilo province. (JRMP-II/NIA-6) In a report, joint venture consultants...
The suspension of National Irrigation Administration (NIA) Acting Administrator Benny Antiporda will not disrupt the agency's operations, particularly the government's food security program, President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. said. President Ferdinand 'Bongbong' Marcos Jr. (Photo by Ali...
A social organization of journalists in the Philippines expressed its support to National Irrigation Administration (NIA) Acting Administrator Benny Antiporda amid his “fight to clear his name.” Antiporda received the “full support” of the National Press Club of the Philippines (NPC) after...
An anti-crime and corruption group is urging the House of Representatives to conduct an investigation into what it described as a swift suspension of the Office of the Ombudsman against National Irrigation Administration (NIA) administrator Benny Antiporda. In a statement, Crime and Corruption...
Two House members have assailed the Ombudsman's unusually swift suspension of National Irrigation Administration (NIA) administrator, Benny Antiporda, saying the suspension is not only questionable but also puts to risk the country’s energy supply requirement and irrigation needs. NIA...
