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NGCP issues 4th yellow alert for Luzon grid

Grid operator National Grid Corporation of the Philippines has issued the fourth consecutive yellow alert for the Luzon power grid for four hours on...

Making irrigation service free: Cost and benefit

The recent signing by President Rodrigo Duterte of the Free Irrigation Service Act (Republic Act No. 10969) is a classic example of violation of...

Protest action

Farmers from Caraga region stage a protest action in front of the National Irrigation Administration in Quezon City against corruption even as they called...

Visaya graces Region 2 ‘IA’ day

TUGUEGARAO CITY, Cagayan—Ricardo R. Visaya, administrator of the National Irrigation Administration, was keynote speaker during the NIA-Irrigation Associations day at the University of Cagayan...

NIA to complete P13-b project by 2020

The National Irrigation Administration expects the P13.37-billion second phase of the Balog-Balog Multi-purpose Project to be completed by 2020. “The Balog-Balog is a multipurpose project...

Lawmaker seeks NIA makeover

A lawmaker on Saturday called anew for a makeover of the National Irrigation Administration by instituting reforms to make the agency financially viable in...

‘Aquino cabal’ targets contracts under Duterte

THERE is now a cabal within the government, allegedly comprised of former officials from the Aquino administration, that is seeking to control multibillion-peso government...

Pay irrigation debts, NIA 2 asks farmers

TUGUEGARAO CITY—The National Irrigation Administration in Region 2 has urged farmers to pay their irrigation service fee arrears. Engineer Antonio Lara, NIA regional director, said...

Visaya replaces Laviña at scandal-hit Irrigation

PRESIDENT Rodrigo Duterte is tapping retired Armed Forces chief of staff Gen. Ricardo Visaya as the new head of the National Irrigation Administration. In a...

Food security

Once again the food security conundrum is in the news. Cabinet Secretary Leoncio Evasco Jr., under whose supervision Executive Order No. 1 of President Rodrigo...

Irrigation chief ousted amid extort raps

PRESIDENT Rodrigo Duterte has asked his former campaign spokesman, Peter Tiu Laviña, to “quietly leave government” as the administrator of the National Irrigation Administration...

KMP urges Congress: Rev up okay of irrigation measures

THE militant farmers group Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas on Wednesday urged the House of Representatives to expedite the approval of free irrigation bills in...

NIA eyes more community-based works nationwide

The National Irrigation Administration has planned recently to increase its Community-Based Employment Program starting this year along with its thrust in building more irrigation...

NIA tells contractors to speed up projects

The National Irrigation Administration issued a cautionary letter among the contractors who were behind project completion.  “Among my mandate is to give higher priority to...
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