The GbaramatuVoice was established in 2015 as a monthly tabloid published by the Gbaramatu Publishing Company Limited. It hit the newsstand first on August 2015. The newspaper’s sole objective is to bring to public glare what the management saw at the cradle of its formation as information gap and asymmetrical reportage of the activities and people of the Niger Delta.
The Oluwo of Iwoland in Osun state, Oba Adbulrasheed Akanbi Saturday made history when he dropped the title of Oba and declared his resolve to adopt the Emir title popularly known with Northern traditional rulers. Speaking at the installation and turbarning ceremony of an Islamic scholar, Sheikh Yahquub Abdul-Baaqi Mohammed as first Waziri of Yoruba
IMMEDIATE past Governor of Delta State, Dr Emmanuel Uduaghan has endorsed Governor Ifeanyi Okowa for second term, and urged political office holders to unflinchingly support the Governor to succeed. Uduaghan spoke on Saturday at a grand reception organised in honour of Hon. Joan Mrakpor, member representing Aniocha/Oshimili in the Federal House of Representatives at Ubulu-Uku,
No fewer than 730 youths from the Niger Delta region would be trained in various skill acquisition programme of the Federal Government in 2018. The effort is said to be in the government bid to increase the human capital development in the country as well as check agitations and unrest in the country. The Minister
The Nigerian Navy has raised the alarm over the security of the nation’s maritime environment. The Chief of Naval Staff, Vice Admiral Ibok Ekwe Ibas, spoke at the Navy Headquarters in Abuja yesterday during the decoration of the coordinator of the Counter Terrorism Centre, Office of the National Security Adviser, Rear Admiral YEM Musa. Also
A State High Court sitting in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, on Friday sentenced a 38-year-old cultist, Diepreye Sunday Olayo, to death by hanging for murder. The court presided over by Justice Emmanuel Ogola found Olayo guilty of murdering Being Ilebiri on September 6, 2011 along Ebis Mechanic road, Amarata, Yenagoa. Olayo said to be a member
The Delta State Government has approved the construction, rehabilitation and asphalt overlay of four roads in the state capital territory. This was part of the decisions taken during the State Executive Council meeting, held inside the Government House, Asaba, on Tuesday. The state Commissioner for Information, Mr. Patrick Ukah, who spoke after the meeting, listed the
Chevron Nigeria Limited (CNL), operator of the NNPC/CNL Joint Venture received an oil and gas company award for the best company in Media Relations and Support during the Energie Platform Lecture and Award event organized by D’Alphaxristi Limited, a media/business development outfit at the Eko Hotels and Suites, Victoria Island, Lagos on March 16, 2018.
Sailing through the rugged waters of the Niger Delta, one would wonder if anything good can ever come out of these waters. The riverine Niger Delta is dominated by the various Ijaw communities and Kingdoms whose prominent occupations are farming and fishing, with no visible development around them. One would rightly wonder how they have been
Men of the Nigerian Navy Ship (NNS) Victory in Calabar, Cross River State, have seized a large wooden boat with about 130 litres of suspected illegally refined Automative Gas Oil (AGO) commonly known as diesel. Also arrested along with the items were seven suspects. Addressing reporters while handing over the items and suspects to the
They say love is timeless and this is clearly reflected in the love life of the current Amadiwei of Opuedebubor community in Gbaramatu kingdom, Delta State, Chief Ebimobowei Oguma. The Amadiwei, Ebimobowei Oguma, has definitely got cause to celebrate. The Amadiwei and his wife yesterday celebrated their 10th wedding anniversary in grand style. The
A member of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Delta state, Hon. (Dr.) Cairo Ojougboh, on Wednesday, promised that his party will bring a lot of infrastructural development to the coastal communities, if the people of the area would join hands to support it. Ojougboh, made the statement during a courtesy call on His Royal Majesty,
…honours 21 indigenes with chieftaincy titles The second coronation anniversary of the Pere of Gbaramatu Kingdom, Oboro Gbaraun II (Aketekpe Agadagba), took place on Tuesday, at Oporoza community, the traditional headquarters of Gbaramatu Kingdom in Warri South West Local Government Area of Delta State. The colourful event attracted a lot of dignitaries and men of
The Nigeria Wrestling Federation (NWF) will officially unveil its team to the 2018 Commonwealth Games today in Yenegoa, Bayelsa State. The event is scheduled to take place at the Daniel Igali Recreation Centre at Yenizuegene, Yenegoa by 1.00 p.m. Meanwhile, the Nigerian wrestling camp is bubbling with confidence ahead of the quadrennial multi-sport event,
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…pro-chancellor tasks stakeholders on making institution world class …Gbaramatu monarch pledges support and loyalty “The President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, President Muhammadu Buhari has asked me to tell you that the Nigerian Maritime University, Okerenkoko has come to stay. We have come; we have looked at the facilities available; the university is taking
The Niger Delta Development Commission ( NDDC ) says it will proffer immediate solution to the recent landslide that occurred in Tuomo Community, Burutu Local Government Area of Delta. Mr Ogaga Ifowodo, the Commissioner, Warri Office of NDDC, made the assertion on Wednesday in Warri when he led a delegation on an inspection visit to
Niger Delta philanthropist, High Chief Mike Loyibo, on Friday, March 23 showered some indigent people of the state, with cash awards, totally about N15 million. The event which took place at Tuomo community, in Burutu Local Government Area of Delta state, was to empower both youths and elders from various communities in the Niger Delta.
Center for Peace and Environmental Justice, CEPEJ on Thursday March 22nd, opened its new permanent center, at Ugolo road near Osubi Airport, Ugolo, in Okpe Local Government Area of Delta state. The event which attracted the crème de la crème in the political and business sphere from different parts of the country and in the
Former President Goodluck Jonathan, South-South governors and other Niger Delta leaders will on Saturday lead a mega rally to call for restructuring. The rally organised by Edwin Clark-led Pan Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF) has been scheduled to hold in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State capital. It was learnt that PANDEF with the rally tagged, “Restructuring the Nigerian
The founder of Mike Loyibo Foundation and a co-founder, Pan Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF), High Chief Mike Loyibo is a committed philanthropist that have impacted heavily in the lives of many indigent people in the Niger Delta, especially his home state, Delta. In a chat with GbaramatuVoice, he highlighted his desire to continue the good
Concerned about the menace of Tuberculosis (TB) and other communicable diseases in Nigeria, Chevron and its business parties have sustained the private sector support to the fight against TB, through the development of infrastructure and supply of medical equipment, worth over N2.2 billion in different hospitals across the country. Dr. Femi Pitan, the Occupational Health
…says; ”route your grievances through PANDEF” Coordinator of Ijaw Monitoring Group, Comr. Joseph Evah on behalf of the group and Ijaw elders, has cautioned Ijaw youths, over the ultimatum given the Federal Government to recall the sacked Co-ordinator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme, Major.Gen Paul Boroh (retd). He enjoined the youths to withdraw their threat and
Rotimi Amaechi, minister of transportation, has asked the Igbo to support President Muhammadu Buhari’s second term bid. But he says they should first “go for confession, seek forgiveness” and join the All Progressives Congress (APC) where they will have a chance of producing Buhari’s successor. Amaechi said this on Wednesday while delivering a lecture on
Former Education Minister #BringBackOurGirls (#BBOG) advocacy leader Dr. Oby Ezekwesili yesterday said that the Presidency has a lot to tell Nigerians about the release of the Dapchi girls. Dr. Ezekwesili expressed her joy at the release of the girls by Boko Haram in a number of tweets. She insisted that the 14 questions demanded by
…calls for commission of inquiry The Ijaw Youth Council (IYC) worldwide, in a release on Wednesday, said it received with mixed feelings the release of the Dapchi kidnapped school girls in Yobe State. It questioned the speed with which the girls were released by the Muslim fundamentalists, who have been holding over two hundred Chibok girls
Activist and aspiring House of Assembly candidate, Comrade Sheriff Mulade, in the company of a large number of delegates, paid a courtesy visit to the Chairman of Warri South Local Government Hon. Michael Tidi yesterday. The courtesy visit was to congratulate the new chairman on his newly elected office and to formally inform and invite him to
…says; “we are equal opportunities employers” Chevron Nigeria Limited (CNL) has denied discriminating against its host communities while considering people for employment in its operations. The company in a statement issued by its General Manager, Policy, Government and public Affairs, Mr. Esimaje Brikinn, said its employment practices is based on the availability of space and
…warns against mass action by youths The President of the Ijaw Youth Council, IYC, Eric Omare, has drawn the attention of the Federal Government and other relevant stakeholders to Chevron’s discriminatory policy on employment of Niger Delta host community indigenes, as he called on both the state and federal governments to prevail on Chevron before
Oil producing communities from the Niger Delta on Tuesday protested alleged non-payment of land owners by Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC). The protesters besieged the gate of the National Assembly Complex in Abuja. They decried alleged payment of discriminatory land re-acquisition and rentals for land by the oil company. The oil producing communities, who came
The newly appointed Special Adviser to the President on Niger Delta Affairs and Coordinator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme, Prof Charles Quaker Dokubo reported for duty today at the Maitama Office of the Presidential Amnesty Programme. See photos below:
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) said four oil and gas wells were being planned for drilling on the Gongola Basin to further test the prospects identified around the Kolmani River-1, Nasara-1 and Kuzari-1 in 2018. The corporation said the drilling of the wells would go on while it awaits the return of normalcy to
Former minister of Niger Delta Affairs Godsday Orubebe, has said that the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP), has crossed from pride to shame. In an open letter to the national chairman, Uche Secondus, Orubebe said the party is suffering from a post-traumatic stress disorder and would need sustainable ideas to bounce back to reckoning. He said
The daily toiling of the Ijaw women that flocks to the ocean front area called Sand Fill Two, popularly called ‘Warri Corner’ in Warri South West Local Government Area of Delta state, where they eke out agonizing living, aptly underscores the over-used cliché, “What a man can do, a woman can do even better”. The
Master Emmanuel Apiakise, a 15-year-old pupil of Community Secondary School, Akenfa-Epie in Yenagoa Local Government Area of Bayelsa State, has allegedly been arrested in possession of a gun. Apiakise was arrested on Tuesday (today) in the school during classes, allegedly with a locally-made pistol, a development that caused chaos and pandemonium in the school. It
At least four farmers who were on fishing expedition have been reportedly shot dead by suspected Fulani herdsmen. Their bodies were found in a bush in Uwheru community, in the Ughelli North Council Area of Delta State. The incident, which was said to have occurred over the weekend, has resulted in palpable tension in the area,
