Bayelsa News Politics

Forty groups in N’Delta endorse Dickson for Bayelsa West Senatorial

By James Nanakumor Over forty representatives, comprising of the various organs administering the Aleibiri Federated Communities have endorsed former Bayelsa state governor, Chief Henry Seriake Dickson for vacant Bayelsa West Senatorial district. In a communique signed by leaders of the various groups in Aleibiri Kingdom, the representatives noted that the former governor, Chief Henry Seriake

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Education National News

(BREAKING) Buhari Appoints New VC For Maritime University

By Ebi Perekeme  President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of Prof. Emmanuel Munakurogha Adigio as the new Vice Chancellor of the Nigeria Maritime University, NMU, Okerenkoko, Delta State. Prof. Emmanuel Adigo is the 2nd Vice Chancellor of NMU following his appointment on Wednesday June 24. More details later..

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Delta News

Security Contract: Egbema Youths threaten to shutdown OMS operation

By Ebi Perekeme  Egbema Youth Network (EYN), in Warri North Local Government Area of Delta State, has on Tuesday, threatened to shut down Ocean Marine Solutions (OMS) operations in Egbema kingdom. The group also stated that the company has ignored them in their contract arrangement amongst other development. GbaramatuVoice had reported that the Central Youth

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Bayelsa News

Oil giants gear up to recover part of receding shoreline in the N’Delta

The Nigerian Agip Oil Company (NAOC) and its Joint Venture (JV) partners, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and Oando Oil Limited have ramped up efforts meant to recover part of the receding shoreline in the Niger Delta. The oil giant inaugurated a N500 million shore protection project in Ogboinbiri community, Southern Ijaw Local Government

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National News

FG releases $50m to boost efforts to complete sections I-IV of East-West Road

The government of Nigeria, led by President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the release of over US$ 50M to boost efforts to complete sections I-IV of the ongoing East-West Road project in Nigeria by 2021, in a bid to address infrastructure deficit in the Niger Delta region and the entire country at large. The East-West Road

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Delta News

Security Contract: Youths in Warri South-West, Burutu LGA call OMS to order

— Stop sponsoring illegal campaign – firm warns Otuaro By Ebi Perekeme  The Central Youth Body and the leadership of various communities in Warri South-West and Burutu Local Government Areas, in Delta state, have again called on the management of Ocean Marine Solutions, OMS, warning them not to take their peaceful demands for justice, equity,

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Akwa Ibom News

COVID-19: Akwa Ibom govt seals Christ Embassy

Akwa Ibom State Government has sealed off a Christ Embassy church in Uyo, the state capital, for allegedly flouting guidelines for reopening of churches amid the coronavirus pandemic. The Secretary to the State Government, Emmanuel Ekuwem, who announced the development in a statement on Sunday, expressed dismay at the action of the pastors and congregants

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Delta News

Odidi/Kantu youths in Warri shut down oil flow stations

Finally, Youths from Odidi/Kantu and Diebiri- Batan communities in Warri South West Local Government Area of Delta state, have shut down the Odidi and Batan oil flow stations. The flow stations shut down last Saturday evening had remained so as at yesterday with the youths insisting that they will only resume operations after the operator

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Delta News

Delta: SSG, Comm for Info test positive for Covid-19

By Ebi Perekeme  Chiedu Ebie, secretary to the state government (SSG) of Delta, and Charles Aniagwu, commissioner for information, have tested positive for COVID-19. The announcement was made on Sunday morning via the Twitter handle of the state government. Both officials were said to have exhibited mild symptoms, and decided to have their samples tested

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National News

Leaders in nine states of N’Delta kick against panel to probe Amnesty Programme

By Our Correspondent  Stakeholders and leaders from the nine states of the Niger Delta region have kicked against the constitution of a five-man probe panel into alleged fraud in the Presidential Amnesty Programme. They urged President Muhammadu Buhari to replace the panel with a substantive coordinator for continued peace in the region. The spokesperson of

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News Rivers

Rivers: More than sixteen cultists renounce memberships, surrender ammunitions

No fewer than 16 cultists of two separate cult groups have renounced membership of their cult groups in Rivers State. The repentant cultists also surrendered one AK-47 riffle, one pump action gun and three matchetes. CSP Ebere Amaraizu, the National Coordinator of Police Campaign Against Cultism and Other Vices (POCACOV), said this in a statement

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Delta News

Pastor Wilson Okotie didn’t die of COVID-19, family says

By Ebi Perekeme  The family of Wilson Okotie, Senior Pastor of High Impact Christian Centre, Sapele, Delta state, has refuted a trending story of June 10, where many news platforms published that the pastor died of COVID-19. In a press release by Oti Okotie, for the family, dated 18 June, 2020, the following was stated:

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Bayelsa News

Bayelsa records 42 new Corona Virus cases

The Bayelsa State Task Force on Covid-19, says the State has recorded 42 new cases of Covid-19 in three days, another 6 deaths and 1 discharged within the same period. The Deputy-Chairman of the Covid-19 Task Force, Dr. Inodu Akpoku, who disclosed this in a statement in Yenagoa, weekend, said the new cases brings to

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National News

40,000 Nigerians to institute court action against Shell in UK

By Ebi Perekeme  More than 40,000 Nigerians from the Ogale and Bille Communities in the Niger Delta will take their legal fight against Shell to the UK Supreme Court on Tuesday, June 23, 2020. The case will be heard via video link and will be live-streamed online. The hearing is listed for one day. The

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National News

Amnesty Int’l, others raise alarm over delayed Ogoni clean up

Worried by the continued delay in the Ogoni clean-up exercise, right groups, Amnesty International Nigeria, Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN), and Friends of the Earth Europe said there will be no justice from Shell’s pollution in the Niger Delta unless clean-up is carried out. The groups raised the alarm that so far,

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News Ondo

BREAKING: Cherubim & Seraphim Church protests over abduction of Spiritual Leader in Ondo (Photos)

By Ebi Perekeme  The headquarters of Cherubim and Seraphim Church was thrown into shock culminating into protest as its leader worldwide, King of Zion, Rev. Dr. Princewill Epistle Jemine JP, the Spiritual Leader and Supreme Head of Cherubim and Seraphim Church of Zion Worldwide, was taken away by men suspected to be military men on

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Maritime News

NIMASA’s floating dock to generate N1bn monthly – DG

The Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) on Thursday in Lagos said the agency’s floating dock would generate N1 billion monthly for the country. Its Director-General, Dr Bashir Jamoh, made this known while presenting his achievements in his first 100 days in office. According to him, the agency is also expecting huge influx of

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Delta News

Neconde Energy: Another community decries negligence, wants coy to leave OML 42

By Ebi Perekeme  Barely 24 hours after Odidi community gave Neconde Energy Limited 48 hours to vacate OML 42, another community has again decried negligence, insisting that the company should leave the facility. Kantu community is one of the chief hosts of the OML 42 oil facilities, Odidi flow stations, in particular, Warri South-West Local

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Delta News

Odidi community gives Neconde 48 hours to vacate OML42

By Ebi Perekeme  Odidi federated community in Warri South West Local Government Area of Delta State, has on Wednesday, issued a 48 hours ultimatum to Neconde Energy Limited to vacate OML 42, over failure to pay indigenous contractors on executed projects. The community also accused the company over its failure to remit dues on the

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Opinion Politics

Now that Obaseki is partyless

By Prof. Idemudia Oviosun He roams the land, seeking a party, seeking a mandate, seeking support, and aware that his support base tricked him into thinking he was invisible. He is going the way of many legacy-lacking ex-governors before him. He is outgoing Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State, and here is an account of

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News Rivers

COVID-19: NDDC Head Office reopens

By Ebi Perekeme  The Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, will re-open its head office on Thursday, June 18, after a two week lockdown to allow for the fumigation of the premises. A press statement by Charles Obi Odili, Director, Corporate Affairs, June 17, 2020, said the lockdown was in obedience to public health directives from

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Maritime News

Nine fuel vessels expected at the Delta ports – NPA

The Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), says nine vessels laden with fuel and other items are expected at the Delta ports. NPA made this known in its daily publication, ‘Shipping Position’ a copy of which was made available to Newsmen on Monday in Warri. The port authority listed some of the expected vessels to include: MT

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Ondo Politics

Ondo guber: Kekemeke asks other APC aspirants to step down

A governorship aspirant of the All Progressives Congress and former chairman of the APC in Ondo State, Mr Isaac Kekemeke, has declared that no other aspirant in the party has the statewide popularity that he has. He expressed confidence in grabbing the ticket of the party at the forthcoming primary of the party based on

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Opinion

Niger Delta: Between Buhari’s Peace Claim and NOSDRA’s Oil Spills Record

By Jerome-Mario Utomi Nigerians and particularly the people of Niger Delta-a region with increasing social difficulties and laced with no good survival record in 2015, thrusted upon President Muhammadu Buhari an important destiny. First, to complete the process of democratization of the nation which has taken over 16 years, as at the time he assumed

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National News

N’Delta: Stakeholders urge Buhari to appoint a substantive coordinator of Amnesty Programme

By Ebi Perekeme  Stakeholders from the nine States of the Niger Delta region have urged President Muhammadu Buhari to immediately replace the five-man probe panel into the alleged fraud in the Presidential Amnesty Programme with a substantive coordinator for the programme. The stakeholders made up of groups under the aegis of the Niger Delta Restoration

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Delta News

Investigate Warri Escravos and Forcados Central Youths – Gbaramatu-OMS communities tell govt

By Ebi Perekeme  The Chairmen of Gbaramatu-Ocean Marine Solutions Ltd communities have called on the Federal Government to investigate the activities of a self-styled group, Warri Escravos and Forcados Central Youths to unravel their mission. The call was contained in a press statement yesterday signed on behalf of the Chairmen by their leader, Chief Moses

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National News

21st CYNDAC asks Buhari to review 16-point agenda

By Loveth Ojogun  The 21st Century Youth of the Niger Delta and Agitators with Conscience (21st CYNDAC), has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to review the 16-point demand tabled before him, 2016, by the people of Niger Delta through Pan Niger Delta Forum, PANDEF. Leader of the group, self-professed “General” Izon Ebe, in a statement, Sunday,

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News Politics Rivers

NDDGG threatens to sue Rivers govt if it fails to give account of N117bn

By Ebi Perekeme  A rights group, Network for Defence of Democracy and Good Governance (NDDGG), has threatened to sue the Rivers State Government if it failed to provide detailed explanations on the deployment of N117bn its officials allegedly withdrawn from the state’s accounts between 2015 and 2017. EFCC has been at loggerheads with the state

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News Ondo Politics

Ondo State PDP gives Deputy Governor Ajayi conditions

Leaders of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have listed fresh conditions for Ondo State Deputy Governor Agboola Ajayi before he will be allowed to run for governorship on the party’s platform. Part of the conditions is for Ajayi to agree to serve one term and hand over to a core PDP loyalist. This is just

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Entertainment & Events Gallery News

(PHOTOSPEAK) Paddle of Niger Delta, Barrister Smooth’s album launch

By Ebi Perekeme  The Paddle of Niger Delta, Chief Barrister Smooth’s super pack album launch party was electrifying as family, friends and fans gathered in Warri to celebrate the successful release of the super pack four albums titled; “The Creek Message, Coronavirus, Mie easy mo opiri and Ebiyosua”. It was an intense atmosphere at his

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Opinion

Gbaramatu’s Superiority Dance

By Ekanpou Enewaridideke Dance is an artistic form of expression rhythmically built into man from the womb before expulsion, or after expulsion when man is carried pickaback by nursing mothers. It derives the mainspring of performance from the type of choreographic excellence or ingenuity that underpins the dancing fame of Amgbare Embeleakpo,Augustine Ferebo and Tosi

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National News Oil & Gas

NNPC pipeline security contractors lament nonpayment of salaries

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) pipeline surveillance and security contractors have cried out over the nonpayment of their salaries for 10 by UTM Offshore Limited. Some of the workers, who spoke exclusively to our reporter but pleaded anonymity, said that as a result of the situation, life had become very difficult for them. “Life

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National News

Stop destroying N’Delta, IEF tells FG

By Ebi Perekeme  A group, Ijaw Elders Forum (IEF), Lagos State Chapter, has urged the Federal Government to stop the reckless destruction, auctioning and exploitation of resources of Niger Delta region and its environment. In a statement jointly signed by its Chairman and Secretary, Barrister Efiye Bribena and Engr Ben Okoro, IEF said the ecosystem

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National News Oil & Gas

NNPC working on building a condensate refinery – MD

Mele Kyari, the group managing director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), says the country is working on building a condensate refinery towards the goal of self-sufficiency in refined petroleum products. Speaking on Friday at a virtual conference organised by Atlantic Council, Kyari said the corporation aims to have a total refinery capacity of

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National News

GWVSL rebukes publication of handling pipeline surveillance

By Ebi Perekeme  The management of Global West Vessels Specialists Ltd has said its attention has been drawn to a publication by a group known as Central Youths of Escravos and Forcados, that GWVSL had once handled pipeline surveillance activities in the area. The insinuation which was contained in a petition to President Muhammadu Buhari

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