Month: June 2020
World Environment Day and the Wobbly Niger Delta Region
By Jerome-Mario Utomi On Friday 5th June 2020, during the celebration of World Environment Day co-hosted by Colombia and Germany and streamed live...
Guwor renders one year scorecard
My One Year score card By Emomotimi Dennis Guwor Yesterday makes it exactly one year since my inauguration into the 7th Delta State...
Senate directs its health c’ttee to unravel cause of death in Bonny
By Joseph Nwoye The Senate on Tuesday directed its Committee on Primary Healthcare and Communicable Diseases to meet with the Nigeria Centre for...
Rivers govt worries over health crisis in Bonny LGA
Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike has confirmed the health crisis in Bonny Local Government Area saying the oil-rich island was becoming the epicentre...
NDDC: Senate ad-hoc investigator presents update on alleged corruption
By Joseph Nwoye The Senate ad-hoc committee investigating the N40 billion corruption allegation against the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) has presented an...
Bill to tackle erosion scales 2nd reading
By Joseph Nwoye A bill seeking to tackle erosion across the country has scaled through the Second Reading in the Senate. The bill...
President dies of heart attack
President Pierre Nkurunziza of Burundi is dead. The president, who has been in power for 15 years, was said to have died at...
Ondo governor charges supporters for APC guber primaries
As the Ondo State Governorship Election draws nearer, Governor Rotimi Akeredolu has charged his supporters across the 18 Local Government Areas of the...
Authorities afraid COVID-19 cases in Nigeria may peak
By Joseph Nwoye AS Nigeria’s confirmed COVID-19 cases surpassed 12,000 and the death toll hit 342 on Sunday, Presidential Task Force on COVID-19...
Man earns hot water bath for slapping wife
A resident of Bayelsa State, Mr Oyinkro Miebode, has been bathed with hot water by his wife over a quarrel at their apartment...
Is Niger Delta Still A Part Of Nigeria?
By Obiaruko Ndukwe The dance of the absurd taking place in the media space in recent times couldn’t have been had President Muhammadu...
NDDC accuses Senator Nwaoboshi of ‘looting’ N3.6bn from commission
NDDC Awarded No Contract to Senator Godswill Akpabio, Honourable Minister of Niger Delta Affairs Our attention has been drawn to a statement by...
1,300 oil spill occurred in parts of Nigeria between 2018-2019 – Report
Over 1,300 oil spill incidents occurred in various parts of Nigeria between 2018 and 2019, latest figures compiled by the National Oil Spill...
NDDC: Testing for COVID-19, Contact Tracing for Staff
By Ebi Perekeme Following the directive by the Rivers State Ministry of Health that staff of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, should...
Qualifications of Edo governorship aspirants unveiled
By Ebi Perekeme The All Progressives Congress on Monday displayed the academic credentials of the six contestants in the forthcoming Edo State governorship...
Call Ocean Marine Solutions to order, youths in Delta tell authorities
By Ebi Perekeme The youths of Warri Escravos and Forcados in Warri South West Local Government Area and Burutu Local Government Area of...
Posture during nat’l anthem becomes a matter of discourse in US
Ben Carson, President Donald Trump’s secretary of housing and urban development, on Sunday suggested that NFL players who kneel during the national anthem...
JAMB advises UTME candidates to print out slip, gives website
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has told candidates who wrote the 2020 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) to print their result...
All I prayed for, God gave to me – Clark who turns 93, says
Elder Statesman and former Federal Commissioner for Information, Senator Edwin Clark, who turns 93 years today, has said that everything he had looked...
N’Delta dying slowly from environmental pollution – Dagogo
The member of the House of Representatives representing Degema /Bonny Federal Constituency, Farah Dagogo, has said that the people of Niger Delta are...
WED 2020: Chevron Nigeria Limited’s Commitment to Biodiversity Conservation
“We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to...
Cherubim & Seraphim settles ten year leadership tussle
The 10-year-old leadership tussle in the first and oldest Cherubim and Seraphim Church Oke Igbala, 13, Igboliki Street, in Akure, the Ondo State...
Nomination for GbaramatuVoice Awards Closes on Saturday
By Ebi Perekeme The Board of Editors of GbaramatuVoice, the Niger Delta leading and most trusted newspaper, has announced that the nominations of...
Wike set to demolish markets flouting lockdown rules
The Rivers Government warned on Wednesday that some markets in the state might be demolished for flouting the order of the government that...
Alfred Izonebi’s Latest Music Discourse (Song) Entitled: Wait and See
By Ekanpou Enewaridideke Ijaw people say that a brook or canal hastily dammed up for fish-hunting can never catch any fish. If you...
Ijaw communities in Delta accuse LGA chairman over alleged lopsided appointments
By Ebi Perekeme Ijaw communities in Warri have threatened a showdown with the Warri South Local Government council chairman, Michael Tidi, over what...
COVID-19: Stay away congregational worship places, FG advises those above 55
The Federal Government has advised those above the age of 55 to stay away from congregational worships. This was contained in the guidelines...
Wike shuts down three markets in PH
By Ebi Perekeme Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike has announced the total closure of three popular markets in the state. The affected markets...
Akpabio never requested NDDC contracts from Nwaboshi – Aide
Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Senator Godswill Akpabio, has denied allegations that he sought inclusion of his constituency as beneficiary of some Niger...
Cheers as Egbezi releases long awaited album
Amid the current COVID-19 pandemic, Niger Delta born rapper, Egbezi born Ebizimor Anthony Ogbe remains career-driven, as he recently released his long awaited...
PANDEF welcomes reconstitution of NNPC Board, but a mere scratch of surface problem
By Ken Robinson Pan Niger Delta Forum, PANDEF, welcomes the reconstitution of the Board of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, by President...
COVID-19: Delta info commissioner asks residents not to negate NCDC’s rules
By Loveth Ojogun Delta state Commissioner for Information, Mr. Charles Aniagwu, has appealed to the people of Delta state to follow the health...
Mulade charges GYC for a people-oriented leadership
By Ebi Perekeme The Ibe-sorimowei of Ancient Gbaramatu Kingdom, Chief Comrade Sheriff Mulade has hailed the newly elected Gbaramatu Youth Council, GYC for...
The Manifesto of Prince Eniola Ojajuni for the good people of Ondo state 2020
By Prince Eniola Joseph Ojajuni The capacity of a man is not determined by his age, financial status, or descent but by the...
PDP wins 18LGAs chairmanships, 196 counselorships in C’River
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has won the 2020 Local Government election in the 18 councils and 196 electoral wards of Cross River....
