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Delta Ijaw community sues Shell over ownership of oil wells in Burutu

Delta Ijaw community sues Shell over ownership of oil wells in Burutu Okpokunou Urban Community in the Burutu Local Government Area of Delta state has sued Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC), which operates in the area. The suit was filed at the Federal High Court in Warri over ownership of oil wells. In the writ

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Opinion

Pipeline Surveillance Contract: Addressing Chief Ogbebor’s Case of Double Standard

Pipeline Surveillance Contract: Addressing Chief Ogbebor’s Case of Double Standard By Jacob Abai Chief Rita-Lori Ogbebor recent opposition to the award of a N48 billion surveillance contract to former leader of Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) Chief Government Ekpemupolo alias Tompolo has again confirmed as true the time honoured belief that

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Life & Living

TRUE LIFE STORY! How I lost my father, husband, children and my home

TRUE LIFE STORY! How I lost my father, husband, children and my home True life account that every girl must not Fail to read In this account, a young female Nigerian from the South South region of the country gives a graphic description of how temporal predicaments and wrong choices derailed her life journey and

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Buhari appoints new Interim Administrator for Presidential Amnesty Programme

BREAKING: Buhari appoints new Interim Administrator for Presidential Amnesty Programme President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of Major General Barry Tariye Ndiomu (retd) as Interim Administrator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme. Ndiomu is replacing Colonel Milland Dixon Dikio as the Amnesty Office Boss. The appointment was disclosed via a statement by the Special Adviser

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BREAKING: Court orders INEC to accept Akpabio as senatorial candidate

Federal High Court in Abuja has ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission to recognise the former Minister of Niger Delta, Godswill Akpabio, as an All Progressives Congress Senatorial candidate. The court ordered the electoral umpire to accept and publish Akpabio’s name as APC senatorial candidate for Akwa Ibom North/West senatorial district in 2023. In a

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Opinion

Niger Delta region and report on Premature Rupture of Membranes (PROM)

Niger Delta region and report on Premature Rupture of Membranes (PROM) By Jerome-Mario Chijioke Utomi I remember now with nostalgia how about a year ago, precisely on Tuesday August 10, 2021, Nigeria’s Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo at the GbaramatuVoice Newspaper’s 6th Anniversary Lecture/Niger Delta Awards, held at Victoria Island, Lagos, among other remarks, told

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News

NDDC resumes scholarship programme, restates importance of manpower development

NDDC resumes scholarship programme, restates importance of manpower development The Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, says it has reviewed its foreign post-graduate scholarship programme, to include Masters Degree courses in Nigerian universities as part of its efforts to boost manpower development for the sustainable development of the Niger Delta region. The NDDC Interim Administrator, Dr

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Maritime News

NLNG invites bids for security escort vessels for tankers in Gulf of Guinea

NLNG invites bids for security escort vessels for tankers in Gulf of Guinea The Nigeria LNG is seeking the services of security escort vessels for tankers calling at its Bonny Terminal, in renewed efforts to wade off attacks from pirates in the notorious gulf of Guinea. The company is inviting bids for Long-Range Security Escort

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News

Bebenimibo, EBF boss speaks on GbaramatuVoice Programme ‘Focus on Niger Delta’

Bebenimibo, EBF boss speaks on GbaramatuVoice Programme ‘Focus on Niger Delta’ My plan for Niger Delta out of school children- Bebenimibo, EBF Boss Dcn Ernest Bebenimibo, the Founder of Ernest Bebenimibo Foundation (EBF) and his Executive Director, Amb Ossai Darlington Ogaga, were today Wednesday September 14, 2022, hosted on the GbaramatuVoice, weekly programme – Focus

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National News

My administration has done extremely well – Buhari

My administration has done extremely well – Buhari …Says those who should be marketing his administration are not doing so President Muhammadu Buhari says those who should be speaking about the achievements of his administration are not doing so. Buhari said this on Tuesday during a visit to Imo to inaugurate some projects in the

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News Oil & Gas

Senate Ad hoc committee arrives Niger Delta, begins probe of oil theft

Senate Ad hoc committee arrives Niger Delta, begins probe of oil theft Worried by the dwindling oil revenue occasioned by crude oil theft and pipeline vandalism, the Senate Adhoc Committee on Oil Theft has arrived in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital, to unravel the true state of things at oil facilities across the Niger

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Editorial

[EDITORIAL] In Praise of Governor Wike’s Bridge Networks

In Praise of Governor Wike’s Bridge Networks By GbaramatuVoice Editorial Board  As a media organization that operates within the South-South region of the country, the GbaramatuVoice have watched with awe, Governor Nyesom Wike’s led administration huge investment in education, health, human capital development and infrastructure in the past seven years in the state. Take as

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National News

INEC delists 1.1m newly registered voters over double registration

INEC delists 1.1m newly registered voters over double registration Just five months to the 2023 general elections, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Monday disclosed that it has delisted 1,126,359 out of the 2,523,458 fresh registrants that registered between June 28, 2021, and January 14, 2022. The electoral umpire who made this disclosure in

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Itsekiri youths begin recruitment processes for pipeline surveillance, pledge to work with Tompolo

The executive of the Itsekiri National Youth Council (INYC) led by Comrade Isaac Oritseweyinmi Agbateyiniro had on Saturday briefed members on the outcome of a parley earlier held with High Chief Government Ekpemupolo aka Tompolo on their slot that covers Itsekiriland from the pipeline surveillance contract. The Saturday meeting at Ikengbuwa Primary School Field, had

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Pipeline Surveillance Contract: We’re ready to assist Tompolo shut down illegal refineries in Ukwuani – Akoku-uno indigenes

Pipeline Surveillance Contract: We’re ready to assist Tompolo shut down illegal refineries in Ukwuani – Akoku-uno indigenes The level of support being received by the former leader of the defunct Movement for Emancipation of Niger Delta (MEND), High Chief Government Oweizide Ekpemupolo aka Tompolo, over the crude oil pipelines surveillance contract recently awarded him by

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National News

ALABO: Wike mocks Amaechi, says ex-minister not allowed in Aso Villa anymore

Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has said his predecessor, Rotimi Amaechi, was a “total failure” as Minister of Transportation, who no longer has access to Aso Villa in Abuja. “This should be the last time that you (Amaechi) will talk about this state because you are a total failure as far as this state is

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INVESTIGATION! Oil Pipelines Surveillance Contracts: Fresh Facts Emerge in Niger Delta

INVESTIGATION! Oil Pipelines Surveillance Contracts: Fresh Facts Emerge in Niger Delta  …How Tompolo was awarded N48bn, Olu of Warri’s company N138b To further clear the air of controversy and accusation that surrounds the recent crude Oil pipelines surveillance contracts awarded by the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited, to the former leader of the defunct

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News Oil & Gas

NNPC loses $700m monthly to oil theft, vandalism

The Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited says it loses $700 million every month as a result of oil theft and vandalism at terminals. Bala Wunti, group general manager, National Petroleum Investment Management Services (NAPIMS), made this known during a tour of NNPCL facilities on Sunday. ALSO READ: NNPC launches app to monitor crude oil

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Encomium as family, friends, others extol Mamamu at his one year remembrance anniversary

Encomium as family, friends, others extol Mamamu at his one year remembrance anniversary By Solomon Yeigagha & Samuel Abai Saturday September 10, 2022, was a moment of solemn celebration for the good people of Salvation City, New Ogbe-Ijoh community in Ogbe-Ijoh Warri kingdom in Warri South West Local Government Area of Delta state as children,

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Editorial

Fix Effurun Roundabout Campaign: How Okowa, Omo-Agege, Fashola, Others Failed Niger Deltans

Fix Effurun Roundabout Campaign: How Okowa, Omo -Agege, Fashola, Others Failed Niger Deltans By GbaramatuVoice Editorial Board  It is now a well known fact among Deltans and visitors to the state that there exists infrastructural collapse in Delta state. Across the sphere, from Delta Central to Delta South-even the Delta North senatorial district where the

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News Oil & Gas

Crude oil theft is a big business in Niger Delta, all stakeholders are involved – PENGASSAN

Crude oil theft is a big business in Niger Delta, all stakeholders are involved – PENGASSAN The President, Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN), Festus Osifo, has accused stakeholders in the oil and gas sector of complicity in oil theft. On Thursday, PENGASSAN embarked on a nationwide protest, threatening to shut

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INVESTIGATION! How crude oil pipelines surveillance contract was awarded to Tompolo, Olu of Warri, others

INVESTIGATION! How crude oil pipelines surveillance contract was awarded to Tompolo, Olu of Warri, others Controversy, accusation and innuendo has undoubtedly trail the recent crude Oil pipelines Surveillance Contract awarded by the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL), to the former leader of the defunct Movement for Emancipation of Niger Delta (MEND), High Chief Government

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The sad state of Sapele/Benin Expressway in Delta [Photos]

The sad state of Sapele/Benin Expressway in Delta Photos below is the failed portion of Mosogar Junction by the popular palm wine joint along Sapele/Benin Expressway, Ethiope West Local Government Area of Delta state.

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News Sport

Daniel Igali elected into United World Wrestling Bureau

Daniel Igali elected into United World Wrestling Bureau President of the Nigeria Wrestling Federation Daniel Igali has been elected into the highest ruling body of the United World Wrestling (UWW) known as the Bureau. Igali, who is one of the three new members elected into the seven-member Bureau was yesterday, elected at the ordinary Congress

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Pipelines Surveillance Contract: Ijaw oil producing communities back Tompolo

Pipelines Surveillance Contract: Ijaw oil producing communities back Tompolo …Thanks PMB for 3% PIA allocation to crude oil producing host communities By Faith Madogwe IZON-EBE Oil and Gas Producing Communities Association, has joined the league of communities, groups and associations that have backed and congratulated the former leader of the defunct Movement for Emancipation of

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Opinion

X-Raying Dikio’s Two Years Administration As Presidential Amnesty Programme Boss

X-Raying Dikio’s Two Years Administration As Presidential Amnesty Programme Boss By Jerome-Mario Chijioke Utomi About two years ago, when President Muhammadu Buhari removed Professor Charles Dokubo (now late), as the interim Coordinator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme, and his place, appointed Mbiama, Ahoada West Local Government Area of Rivers State born Colonel Milland Dixon Dikio

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Opinion

Gesi’s handshake with Tompolo 

GESI’S HANDSHAKE WITH TOMPOLO BY EKANPOU ENEWARIDIDEKE The world is the designated place of peaceful cohabitation where people do travel from one place to another from time to time in goal-pursuit and goal-actualisation but not without some financial constraints, preparation and capability. Yet there are people who are at liberty to travel without a single

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News Oil & Gas

Shell to complete repairs on Forcados terminal this month – Report 

Shell to complete repairs on Forcados terminal this month – Report  Nigeria’s revenue is expected to increase over the restoration of the Forcados oil export terminal in late September, Bloomberg reports. A spokesperson for Shell Plc, which operates Forcados, told Bloomberg that repairs were ongoing at the terminal but declined to comment on the time

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Politics

PDP Crisis: Somebody in the presidency backing Atiku – Wike reveals

PDP Crisis: Somebody in the presidency backing Atiku – Wike reveals Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has said an individual within the presidency is backing Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, presidential candidate and Iyorchia Ayu, national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Wike spoke on Thursday at the inauguration of a campus of the Rivers

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Navy destroys 347 illegal refineries in five months

Navy destroys 347 illegal refineries in five months As crude oil theft and illegal refining continue in the Niger Delta region, the Nigerian Navy says it has destroyed no fewer than 347 illegal refineries in the last five months. It stated that the proliferation of illegal refineries had been an enabler of crude oil theft

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WORLD NEWS

BREAKING: Queen Elizabeth II is dead, Buckingham Palace announces

Queen Elizabeth II is dead, Buckingham Palace announces Queen Elizabeth II, the UK’s longest-serving monarch, has died at Balmoral aged 96, after reigning for 70 years. Her family gathered at her Scottish estate after concerns grew about her health earlier on Thursday. The Queen came to the throne in 1952 and witnessed enormous social change.

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How crude oil pollution exposes Niger Delta women to maternal death – Study

Latest report by experts reveal that women residing in areas with high exposure to oil pollution in the Niger Delta are more prone to premature rupture of membranes and severe vaginal bleeding after childbirth as compared to women residing in areas with low exposure, making pollution prevention pivotal to achieving maternal death reduction in the

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Delta PDP crisis worsens as former commissioner resigns from party

Delta PDP crisis worsens as former commissioner resigns from party The woes suffered in recent times by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Delta state has continued unabated with the latest resignation by CHIEF BOSIN EBIKEME, a former Commissioner in the state and strong stalwart of the Party. EBIKEME latest resignation was contained in a

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INTERVIEWS

How Presidential Amnesty Student bagged first class from Michael and Cecilia Ibru University 

How Presidential Amnesty student bagged first class from Michael and Cecilia Ibru University  ...my major support was from my mum – Ubebe Thirty-one-year-old Rapheal Ubebe, a beneficiary of the Federal Government Presidential Amnesty Programme scholarship, who bagged first class honours with 4.76 Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA) in Computer Science from the Michael and Cecilia

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Presidential Amnesty: South South ex-agitators to President Buhari, Sack Dikio now

Presidential Amnesty: South South ex-agitators to President Buhari, Sack Dikio now The National Coordinator, South South Wing Of Ex-Agitators (SSWA), General Paul Agge, has asked President Muhammadu Buhari not to renew the tenure of the current Interim Administrator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme, Col. Milland Dikkio rtd. General Agge in a statement issued to newsmen

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