Delta National News Politics

INEC fixes date for Bayelsa Bye-elections to fill Gov. Diri, Deputy Senate’s seats

By Our Correspondent The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has slated the Bayelsa Central and West Senatorial Districts and Imo North Senatorial District

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National News

Wike, Okowa, Diri to headline GbaramatuVoice 5th Anniversary, Lectures/Awards

By Ebi Perekeme The Management of GbaramatuVoice newspapers has rolled out its plan for the paper’s 5th Anniversary Lectures/Awards. Announcing the anniversary’s carte du

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National Press Release

Gov. Wike, Jega, Sylva to speak at GbaramatuVoice 5th Anniversary, Lectures/Awards

PRESS RELEASE GOV. WIKE, JEGA TO SPEAK AT GBARAMATUVOICE 5TH ANNIVERSARY, LECTURES/AWARDS 1. The Management of GbaramatuVoice Newspapers has announced the Governor of

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Bayelsa News

Letugbene community shutdown Shell’s drilling operations in Bayelsa

By Ebi Perekeme A drilling rig belonging to Shell Petroleum Development Company, SPDC, has been shutdown by the people of Letugbene, Ekeremor Local

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National News

ISIS, Al-Qaeda Invasion: NDC calls on S’South Governors to set up regional security outfit

By Our Correspondent Following a warning from the United State on the imminent invasion of terrorist groups (ISIS and al-Qaeda) in the southern

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National News

Ijaw Nation Virtual Conference: Avoid politics of bitterness, violence – Jonathan tells politicians

The former president, Goodluck Jonathan, has warned politicians against politics of bitterness and violence and charged them to forge a common agenda that

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News Politics

Full list of newly elected Delta PDP exco members

Delta State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Saturday returned Chief Kingsley Esiso for another four years term as its State Chairman.

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Delta News

Ijaw students honour EGCDF chairman, Ukori

By Loveth Ojogun In recognition of his contribution toward academic excellence in the Niger Delta region, the National Association of Delta Ijaw Students

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Delta News

25% Equity Holdings In Marginal Field: Otuaro harps on constant communities dialogue

…Meets with Egbema leaders in Asaba By Ebi Perekeme In a bid to quell the incessant agitation in the Niger Delta region, the

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Delta News

DELTA STATE CURFEW: Plight, bane of Deltans as curfew bites hard

Joshua Williams, Warri The Covid 19 pandemic wave has been the most felt since the Influenza pandemic in 2010.  Due to the emergence

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Letters National

Niger Delta: Clark sends strong warning to Osinbajo

CLARK CAUTIONS VICE PRESIDENT, PROF YEMI OSINBAJO, TO TREAD CAREFULLY ON NIGER DELTA REGION AND NOT ANTAGONIZE LEADERS AND STAKEHOLDERS OF THE REGION

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National News

Francis Waive clamours for unity among Niger Deltans

By Joshua Williams  Francis Waive, lawmaker representing Ughelli north/Ughelli south and Udu federal constituency in the house of representatives, has called for unity

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News Oil & Gas

Niger Delta: PIND fingers unemployment to cause of youth restiveness

Dara Akala, executive director of Foundation for Partnership Initiative in the Niger Delta (PIND), has attributed the restiveness and conflict in the Niger

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Delta News

Why Governor Okowa must lift curfew in Delta state now – Ijaw People

…Okowa’s 7pm-6am curfew a defiant of Buhari’s directives …Police now exploit Deltans massively — Report By Ebi Perekeme The Ijaw Peoples Development Initiative,

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Akwa Ibom News Politics

A’Ibom APC Chairman passes on

By Joshua Williams The Akwa Ibom state chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Ini Okopido is dead. A top member of the

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News Oil & Gas Rivers

Ogoni mandates oil companies to liaise with natives before resuming operation

By Ebi Perekeme  Ogoni oil producing communities in Rivers state on Wednesday declared that any oil firm desirous of resuming exploration in the

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Bayelsa News

OML host communities in Southern Ijaw ‘divide’ over interest

Host communities of the Operating Mining License (OML) 79 in Ekeremor and Southern Ijaw local government areas, Bayelsa State, have distanced themselves from

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News Politics Rivers

LGA chairmen: Wike directs removal of Joint Account Allocation Committee from banks

By Our Correspondent  Governor Nyesom Ezenwo Wike of Rivers State has directed the removal of Joint Account Allocation Committee, JAAC, from banks that

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Edo News Politics

Obaseki redeploys his protocol chief for failure to bring kola to palace

By Our Correspondent Osayande Aisagbon, Director of Protocol (DoP) at the Edo government house, has been redeployed to the ministry of culture and

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Delta News

Vigilante in Delta arrests alleged notorious criminal

By Joshua Williams Indigenes and residents of Udu community in Udu local government area of Delta State have had cause to rejoice greatly

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National News

N’Delta: Buhari petitioned to investigate N6.2b palliatives

By Ebi Perekeme A fresh petition has been issued to the National Assembly to raise another panel to investigate alleged misappropriation of N6.2

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Delta News

Otuaro douses threats by oil communities against oil companies

…Visits Ogulagha, Ughievwen kingdoms By Ebi Perekeme As a move geared towards addressing the threats by oil producing communities in the Niger Delta

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News Rivers

IYC describes delay in payment of students’ scholarship school fees as call for anarchy

The Ijaw Youths Council (IYC) Worldwide has identified the ongoing delay in the payment of students under the scholarship scheme of the Niger

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News Rivers

Niger Delta Agitations: Allow us control our resources, environments, Mayor tells Buhari

’50 years counting, we’ve been denied opportunity to control our resources, environments’ A former presidential aspirant of Ijaw Youth Council, IYC, Worldwide, Mayor

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Delta News

Ogulagha: Plans to shutdown Forcados under way

Indications emerged, yesterday, that the angry people of Ogulagha Kingdom in Burutu Local Government Area of Delta State, have concluded plans to shutdown

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News Rivers

NDDC invites President Buhari to Commission Signature Project

By Ebi Perekem The Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, has invited President Muhammadu Buhari to commission the 29-kilometre Ogbia-Nembe Road in Bayelsa state.

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News Rivers

Gov Wike signs revised Appropriation Bill into law

By Ebi Perekeme Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has signed into law the revised 2020 Appropriation Bill. This followed the presentation of

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News Rivers

Wike donates SUVs to Judges in Rivers

By Ebi Perekeme Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike has gifted judges in the state High Court 41 new sports utility vehicles (SUV). Presenting

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Delta Education News

Schools resume in 25 LGAs in Delta

By Joshua Williams About 29,525 students have resumed for academic activities across various public secondary schools in the 25 local government areas of

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National News

Breaking: ShopRite to leave Nigeria

South Africa’s grocery retailer ShopRite is leaving Africa’s biggest market, Nigeria, 15 years after it opened shop in the West African country. The

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National News

Goodluck Jonathan Railway Station in Agbor, Ridiculous, demeaning – PANDEF

By Ebi Perekeme  The Pan Niger Delta Forum, PANDEF, has described the naming of what is in effect, a railway sub-station, after the

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Maritime National News

Alleged Fraud: Amaechi terminates Okunbo’s OMSL maritime security contract

By Joshua Williams  The Federal Government has cancelled the maritime security contract handled by Capt. Hosa Okunbo’s Ocean Marine Solutions Ltd (OMSL), alleging

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News Oil & Gas

Pathetic! Senate reveals NDDC’s IMC collect 30% of contracts before contractors

The Senate has revealed that the new head of the Interim Management Committee, IMC, of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, Professor Kemebradikumo

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Akwa Ibom News

Oil-rich communities in A’Ibom fume over alleged maltreatment

By Joshua Williams  Angry Ijaw youths in the oil communities of Akwa Ibom state, on Thursday, protested over what they called ‘high underdevelopment

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Akwa Ibom News Politics

A’Ibom: New appointments on Monday, Aug. 3

Governor Udom Emmanuel of Akwa Ibom State will on Monday, August 3, 2020, swear-in eight new members of the State Executive Council recently

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