Sport

NFF boss says he has held talks with Mourinho

…Promises Nigeria will get new coach next week Nigeria Football Federation boss, Amaju Pinnick, says the federation held talks with Roma manager, Jose Mourinho, in its search for a coach for the Super Eagles. Pinnick, who stated this during a media parley with sports journalists in Lagos on Wednesday, said the Eagles would get a

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Uncategorized

FG launches National Development Plan 2021-2025

…to prioritise infrastructure, economic stability, etc The Federal Government, yesterday, launched the National Development Plan (NDP) 2021-2025 at the State House, Abuja, setting the tone for Nigeria’s next economic destination. Presenting the document to President Muhammadu Buhari at a brief ceremony before the commencement of the Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting, Minister of Finance, Budget

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National

Edwin Clark describes Obasanjo’s comment as disappointing

…Accuses former President of Hate Attitude By Ebi Perekeme The leader of Pan-Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF), Chief Edwin Clark, has described as unstatesmanly and disappointing, the comment by former President Olusegun Obasanjo that oil found in the Niger Delta region does not belong to the people of the Niger Delta. The former federal commissioner for

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Edo News

House help finally confesses killing Maria Igbinedion, mother of former Edo governor

Dominion Okoro, the housemaid of Mrs Maria Igbinedion, mother of former Edo state governor, has confessed killing her. Mrs Igbinedion was killed on December 1, 2021 by her housemaid, who absconded after committing the heinous act. ALSO READ: PAP not owing genuine scholarship students, says Dikio When the police commissioner, Phillip Ogbadu, paraded the 25-year-old

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Africa News

Police minister swims 12 hours to safety after helicopter crash in Madagascar

Madagascar’s police minister and an air force mechanic succeeded in swimming for 12 hours to safety after their helicopter crashed in the Indian Ocean. Gen. Serge Gelle, 57, the Secretary of State for the Gendarmerie, was discovered in the water by a fisherman in a canoe who brought him to shore, according to officials. Another

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National

PAP not owing genuine scholarship students, says Dikio

The Interim Administrator, Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP), Col. Milland Dixon Dikio (retd) has explained that the scheme was up-to-date with the financial obligations of its genuine scholarship students. Dikio in a statement said the explanation became important following a protest by a group of persons in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, who claimed that PAP was owing

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News Rivers

OML 29 OIL SPILL: Kalabari youths protest neglect of Kula communities

…Send strong warning to Government, Aiteo Members of the Ijaw Youth Council, IYC, Kalabari Se-Ikpangi, have issued a strongly worded warning to the Federal Government of Nigeria, the Rivers State Government, and Aiteo E&P Ltd to include the Kalabari people ,generally, and the Kula people, particularly, among the communities to receive relief materials and then

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Delta News

How Warri residents woke up to discover fire had destroyed Miller waterside

…Victims call for government assistance NPA residents woke up early on Monday to devastating news of the fire outbreak that destroyed the popular Miller waterside in the oil city of Warri with goods worth hundreds of millions of naira destroyed within the five hours the inferno lasted. Although investigation is on to ascertain the cause

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Bayelsa News

Stakeholders decry humiliating treatment meted out to royal fathers in Niger Delta

…Wonder why royal fathers raise hands when passing checkpoints on Niger Delta waterways Stakeholders have described as humiliating the practice where boat passengers including royal fathers are compelled to raise their hands over their heads (surrender) at every military checkpoint on the river and creeks of Bayelsa and other parts of the Niger-Delta region. Though

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Opinion

Mcdonald’s intrusion and the Oyangbene reprisal 

By Ekanpou Enewaridideke  Stories in their variegated colours about both biotic and abiotic factors have been told by the village boy – stories sometimes categorised as either phenomenally bad or good depending on the interpretational wavelength from which the stories are read and analysed. Interpretatively favoured or disfavoured, these stories fly everywhere on variegated wings

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Delta Politics

DELTA 2023: What Ijaw leaders discussed with Otuaro, James Manager in Warri

…We have consulted widely, the coast is clear for an Ijaw Governor – Bozimo  Ijaw leaders, stakeholders, politicians and traditional rulers led by the Delta-Ijaw for Governor 2023 lobby group on Monday, December 20, 2021, held a closed door meeting in Warri, Delta state with all the frontline aspirants. The Ijaw for Governor team led

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Delta Politics

[BREAKING] DELTA 2023: Otuaro, James Manager in closed-door meeting with Ijaw leaders

In a bid to ensure that the selection of the Ijaw preferred candidate ahead of the 2023 Governorship election in Delta state emerges through a consensus arrangement, the Ijaw leaders, stakeholders, politicians and traditional rulers led by the Delta-Ijaw for Governor 2023 lobby group are currently in a closed door meeting in Warri with all

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National News

NEMBE OIL SPILL: Ijaw Diaspora Council calls for independent investigation

A socio-cultural organisation based in the United States of America, USA, Ijaw Diaspora Council, IDC, Friday, wrote the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, demanding an independent investigation of OML29 Oil well spillage in Nembe Local Government Area of Bayelsa State. The letter was signed by the Vice President Europe & Director

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News Rivers

Ijaw group congratulates Wike on his birthday

By Ebi Perekeme  The Ijaw People’s Assembly also known as Ijaw Nation Development group, a sociocultural organization of Ijaws from all walks of life with wide national and international reach, has heartily felicitated with His Excellency, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike [CON, GSSRS], governor of Rivers State, on his 58th birthday. In a message signed by Ben

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Politics

Group threatens to sue Tinubu if he refuses to contest in 2023

A group, The Disciples of Jagaban (DOJ) ,has threatened to drag to court the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, if he refuses to contest for the Presidency in 2023. National Coordinator of DOJ, Comrade Abdulhakeem Adegoke, said in an interview with journalists that the reason why Nigerians have

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Delta News

Ovie of Mosogar joins ancestors

Mosogar kingdom confirms death Mosogar kingdom in Ethiope West Local Government Area of Delta State, has officially announced the transition of their Monarch, HRM Samson Okirhioboh Imoyin-Omene, Udurhie I, just as they declared three months of mourning.  The kingdom which made this known in a speech delivered by Chief Ighoyota Amori, Otota of Mosogar, during

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News

NDDC is on life support – Akpabio

Commission can barely pay staff salaries The Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Godswill Akpabio, on Thursday, said the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) is on life support due to huge debt owed to the agency by oil companies. He said the commission can barely pay staff salaries. The minister put the debt at $5.6 billion

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National

INC demands apology from Obasanjo over ‘attack on national secretary’

The umbrella body of the Ijaw nation, the Ijaw National Congress (INC) has described the recent outburst and erroneous assertion against the Ijaw nation by former President Olusegun Obasanjo as a flight of fantasy and a joke taken too far. At a press conference addressed yesterday by the President of the INC, Prof. Benjamin Okaba,

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Delta News

Okowa, Dikio, others proffer solutions to Niger Delta challenges

Government needs to create a balance between economic and infrastructural development The Delta State governor, Senator Ifeanyi Okowa, Interim Administrator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP), Col. Milland Dixon Dikio (rtd) and the Executive Director Business Development, Nexim Bank, Stella Okotete, have proffered solutions to the economic challenges of the Niger Delta region. The trio

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News

2023: Arogbo Ijaw communities demand House of Reps slot in Ondo

The Arogbo Ijaw ethnic nationality in Ondo state has lamented the high handedness and unnecessary discrimination against them by some selfish individuals in the Constituency over the years. They noted that the House of Representatives in the Ilaje/ Ese-odo federal constituency in Ondo state, which is mainly occupied by the Ijaw Arogbo, Ijaw Apoi and

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News

Buhari replaces Lauretta Onochie, Appoints New INEC Commissioners

Buhari replaces Lauretta Onochie, Appoints New INEC Commissioners President Muhammadu Buhari has written to the Senate seeking the confirmation of the nomination of some National Commissioners and Resident Electoral Commissioners to replace the outgoing ones. Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, read the letter during Tuesday’s plenary session. The nominees are Malam Mohammed Haruna from Niger State

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Politics

I will not turn down calls to be president – Bola Tinubu

The All Progressives Congress (APC) National Leader – Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, yesterday, said he was still consulting over 2023 election. He said he will not turn down individuals and groups who are urging him to contest for President. The eminent politician spoke in Abuja after a closed-door meeting with members of the Northern Alliance Committee

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News

Ijaw christian leaders honour GbaramatuVoice publisher

By Loveth Ojogun The Publisher of GbaramatuVoice Newspapers, Jacob Abai has been honoured with an award of Media Personality of the Year by the Ijaw Christian Association of Nigeria, ICAN. Pastor Ekpolade Eyiki led ICAN presented the award during the Ijaw day of prayer and praise held over the weekend at Shell Ramp, Warri Delta

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Inside Niger Delta

Amnesty programme has boosted manpower capacity in Gbaramatu kingdom – Oboro-Gbaraun II

Amnesty programme has boosted manpower capacity in Gbaramatu kingdom – Oboro-Gbaraun II By Ebi Perekeme The Pere of Gbaramatu Kingdom in Delta State, HRM Oboro Gbaraun II, Aketekpe, Agadagba, on Monday disclosed that the intervention of the Presidential Amnesty Programme has boosted the manpower capacity of his kingdom. He affirmed that the program has raised

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Opinion

Tompolo and the City of Freedom

Tompolo and the City of Freedom By Ekanpou Enewaridideke Many centuries have lived comfortably and gone by. For centuries there lived the city of Freedom in the city of Freedom. The city of Freedom is yet to be denied the right of habitation in the city of Freedom. If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.

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Politics

Yahaya Bello Hosts Best of Nollywood Awards in Lokoja

Signifies intention to run for President in 2023. Nollywood has contributed to the Nigerian economy, but more still need needs to be done. The Executive Governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello, over the weekend, hosted the Best of Nollywood (BON) Awards, 13th edition at the Glass House, Lokoja, Kogi State. The governor presented a plaque

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Bayelsa Oil & Gas

NEMBE OIL SPILL: Civil Society Organizations advocate state of emergency in Bayelsa

A coalition of Civil Society Organisations (CSO) have advocated for a declaration of state of environmental emergency in Bayelsa State. The CSOs led by Revd Nnimmo Bassey, Director of Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF) stated this over the weekend after a visit to Santa Barbara River, Nembe, where the oil spill from the Oil

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National News

Kogi state govt drags EFCC to court over alleged hidden N19.3b, demands N35b damages

By Ebi Perekeme  The Kogi State Government has finally dragged the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission to court over allegations that it fixed N19.3 billion bail-out funds received from the Federal Government. This came as Justice J. Majebi of a Kogi State High Court also granted an interim injunction restraining the EFCC from issuing further

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National News

Nigerian Navy deploys troops to Niger Delta on military exercise

The Nigerian Navy, on Sunday, deployed its Special Boat Service Unit (special forces) and thousands of troops onboard 10 warships, two helicopters and other assets in a special military exercise. The Chief of the Naval Staff (CNS), Vice Adm. Awwal Gambo, announced the deployment at the flag-off of the CNS Annual Sea Inspection, code-named ‘Exercise

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Delta News

[PHOTOS] Ajube donates relief materials to victims of fire outbreak in Delta community

By Loveth Ojogun The Beleukoriwei (Pathfinder) of Arogbo- Ibe Kingdom in Ese-Odo Local Government Area of Ondo State, and the CEO/Chairman of Bradama International Skill Works Ltd, High Chief Bibopere Ajube popularly known as Shoot-At-Sight, has distributed relief materials to victims of fire outbreak in Egbemene Island community, Fenegbene, Ogbe-Ijoh Warri Kingdom in Warri South

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Delta Politics

Okowa blames FG for state’s failure to pay salaries

The Delta State Governor, Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa, has disclosed that the state is finding it difficult to pay salaries due to the reduction in funds gotten from the Federal Allocation Accounts Committee ( FAAC). Okowa, who revealed this to pressmen in Asaba, expressed displeasure over the reduction in funds received from the Federal Allocation Accounts

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Video

[VIDEO] Tompolo, Egbesu Chief Priest Offers Prayers to Ijaw Nation 

Follow link to watch full https://youtu.be/Dkf-S56qlw0

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National

[FLASHBACK] TOMPOLO’s open letter to late President Umaru Yaradua before disarmament in 2009

Mr. president : I am Chief Government Ekepemupolo, referred to in good and odd times as Tompolo. I have played my insignificant roles religiously in the determined struggle of the Ijaw, nay Niger Delta, nationalities since 1993 against insensitive multinational corporations and the state. In 2003, I left the average God given comfort of my

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Abia Education News

Unubiko Foundation earmarks N250m to rebuild Ovukwu-Abam Secondary School in Abia

The Chairman/Founder, Unubiko Foundation, Chief James Ume, has revealed that the organization has launched a N250m intervention fund to rebuild the Ovukwu-Abam Secondary School, Atan Abam in Abia State. Ume said this on Thursday in Lagos at the launch of a book titled: “Technology and Development – An African Perspective,” written by the Business Editor

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Sponsored

Chevron Nigeria Limited – 60 Years of partnering with Nigeria for socio-economic development

On December 1, 2021, Chevron Nigeria Limited (“CNL”), operator of the joint venture with the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, (“NNPC”) – “NNPC/CNL JV” – marked 60 years of its operations in Nigeria. It was on December 1, 1961, that Gulf Oil Company, a subsidiary of Gulf Corporation, was registered in Nigeria and obtained its

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