The GbaramatuVoice was established in 2015 as a monthly tabloid published by the Gbaramatu Publishing Company Limited. It hit the newsstand first on August 2015. The newspaper’s sole objective is to bring to public glare what the management saw at the cradle of its formation as information gap and asymmetrical reportage of the activities and people of the Niger Delta.
Former Bayelsa State governor and Minister of Petroleum, Timipre Sylva has said the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) would retain its grip on Edo State in the forthcoming governorship election slated for September. He made the declaration on Tuesday while speaking with newsmen shortly after the inaugural meeting of the Contact and Mobilisation Committee of
By Ebi Perekeme Kemebradikumo Pondei, acting managing director of the the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), has walked out on a house of representatives panel investigating the commission. At the meeting of the house committee on NDDC on Thursday, Pondei stormed out of the session after insisting that Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, its chairman, will not preside.
Armed security operatives have surrounded the home of former managing director of the NDDC, Joy Nunieh, in Port Harcourt. Rivers State Governor, Mr Nyesom Wike is reportedly moving to intervene in the stand-off. It was gathered that the former NDDC boss is due to appear before a House of Representatives Committee in Abuja today. More
Armed security operatives have surrounded the home of former managing director of the NDDC, Joi Nunieh, in Port Harcourt. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EURdlzG2Gmg&t=4s
By Ebi Perekeme The Senate on Wednesday, passed the bill for the establishment of Nigeria Maritime University, Okerenkoko in Delta State. The bill seeking to establish the Nigeria Maritime University was sponsored by Senator James Manager, PDP Delta South. The Senate also passed a bill seeking to establish the City University of Technology, Auchi, Edo
Former Nigeria President, Goodluck Jonathan, has been appointed by the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) as a special envoy to lead the sub-regional body’s mediation mission in Mali. Jonathan’s media aide, Ikechukwu Eze, made this known in a statement on Tuesday. ”As a special envoy, the former President is expected to facilitate dialogue
By Ebi Perekeme PAN-Niger Delta Forum, PANDEF, has supported the oil and gas producing communities in Itsekiri, Ijaw and Urhobo ethnic nationalities, Delta State, demanding for development from the Federal Government. The apex socio-cultural organisation of the South-South geo-political zone, National Publicity Secretary of the regional body, Hon Ken Robinson, disclosed this in a statement
The Federal Government on Wednesday opened a fresh bid to select contractors to provide potable water in oil spill impacted Ogoni communities in Rivers State. The Project Coordinator, Hydrocarbon Pollution Remediation Project (HYPREP), Marvin Dekil, said at the opening of the bid in Port Harcourt that the Project was an initiative of the UN Environment
By Ebi Perekeme Again, the Delta State Governor, Ifeanyi Okowa, has called on the Gbaramatu Kingdom, Itsekiri and Urhobo bodies to embrace peaceful dialogue. Okowa also stated that the constant disagreements and threats across the region had chased away companies and some of the projects they are demanding for now. The governor’s advice is coming
Justice Ibrahim Buba of Federal High Court Lagos has discharged former Niger Delta Ex-Militant Leader, Government Ekpemupolo, popularly called Tompolo, over charges of N45.9bn fraud. Justice Buba upheld the no-case submission filed by Tompolo and others. Government Ekpemupolo, known as Tompolo, was the leader of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND),
By Ebi Perekeme The Ijaw Youth Council, IYC, Election Committee, has released the final list of candidates eligible to participate in the forthcoming triennial elective convention slated for Saturday 18-19 July, 2020 at Oporoza, Gbaramatu kingdom, Delta State. The list signed by the IYC Eleco Chairman, Barr. Bekewei Ajuwa and Secretary, Amb. Winston Amain, released
By Ebi Perekeme Following an appeal filed by Mr. Timi Alaibe, the governorship aspirant for the Peoples Democratic Party in Bayelsa State, challenging the emergence of Governor Douye Diri as the party’s candidate in the 2019 election, the Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed the appeal. A five-man panel of the Supreme Court led by Justice
By Ebi Perekeme The House of Representatives on Monday vowed not to spear anyone indicted in the ongoing investigation into the N70.495 billion contract scandal by recommending to the Executive that such individual(s) should be barred from holding public office in Nigeria. Chairman, House Committee on Public Accounts, Hon. Wole Oke issued the threat notice
The Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers and the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association said on Monday that the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation had sacked 850 contract workers at the nation’s refineries. The unions disclosed this in a joint statement signed by the National President, NUPENG, Williams Akporeha, and his counterpart
Seriake Dickson, former governor of Bayelsa state, has condemned those opposed to the decision by President Muhammadu Buhari to nominate Nimi Akinkugbe as the non-career ambassador nominee from Ondo state. Akinkugbe’s nomination elicited debate because she is from Rivers state. Some persons have argued that the president should not have nominated her because of her
President Muhammadu Buhari, July 12, reconstituted the Board of the Nigerian Liquefied Natural Gas Limited (NLNG), for the first time since 2005, and Bonny Gas Transport Limited (BGT), appointing King Edmund Daukoru as Chairman and President of the Board of the NLNG and BGT respectively. Edmund Daukoru, the Amayanabo of Nembe, was former Minister of
Delta State Governor, Ifeanyi Okowa, his wife, Edith and daughter have tested negative to COVID-19. Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Mr Olisa Ifeajika, who disclosed this in a statement in Asaba, Tuesday, said other members of the First Family also tested negative to the virus. Recall that the governor and his wife tested positive
Foremost Ijaw historian and the Ama-okosuwei of Benikrukru community in Gbaramatu kingdom, Pa John A. Ogio Okirika has been confirmed dead. He died at the aged of 91. The Chairman of Benikrukru Community, Mr. Solomon Eris Odu, disclosed this to GbaramatuVoice on Monday evening. Odu, stated that the Ama-okosuwei of the community gave up the
An International Non Governmental Organisation, Stakeholders Democracy Network (SDN), has appealed to the Nigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari, to save the Niger Delta from an ecological disaster. It also urged the president to collaborate with the National Assembly to pass the National Oil Spill Detection and Response Agency (NOSDRA) Amendment Bill. SDN in its report, “2018
By Ebi Perekeme Residents of Bayelsa state have called out the management of Port Harcourt Electricity Distribution Company, PHEDC, to address the epileptic electricity in the state. This came as Twitter users on Sunday afternoon flooded the micro-blogging site with tweets hashtag “#GiveBayelsaLight” calling on PHEDC, to give electricity to the residents of Bayelsa State.
By Ken Ugbechie A friend recently asked me: Why are you so obsessed with issues of the Niger Delta? My retort was a simple one, “because Niger Delta Lives Matter.” And why not? But first, a bit of geography: Niger Delta region is a swathe covering over 70,000 square kilometres and barbed on the southern
By Emmanuel Onwubiko These days if you watch the global news as channels, the likelihood is very high that you would hear and see proffs that the Amazon Rainforest in Brazil is depleting at an alarming rate no doubt. However, much of The World’s political and media powers are on this matter. The clamour and
By Ebi Perekeme The Minister of Niger Delta, Senator Godswill Akpabio yesterday said endemic corruption, lack of patriotism and the entrenched culture of patronage had crippled the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) from delivering its mandate to the people of the region in the last 19 years of its operations. Akpabio, a former governor of
The Minister of State, Petroleum Resources, Mr Timipre Sylva, at the weekend disclosed that in the next two weeks, the ministry will transmit the revised Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) to the National Assembly so that work on it can begin fully. Speaking during an interview on Arise Television, the broadcast arm of THISDAY newspapers, the
By Our Reporter The Ijaw Youth Council (IYC) has accused the national assembly of “bullying” the Niger Delta Development Commission (NCDC). Frank Akiefa, chairman, IYC western zone, and secretary, IYC national transition implementation committee, made the group’s position known in a statement issued on Sunday. In October 2019, President Muhammadu Buhari inaugurated a three-man committee
By Our Reporter House of Representatives has launched a full-scale investigation into the N70.495 billion allegedly paid by Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) to 1,773 contractors as mobilization fees between 2008 and 2012 without executing the projects. The House Committee on Public Accounts which is investigating the matter occasioned by the audit queries from the
The traditional ruler of Peretorugbene community in Ekeremor Local Government Area of Bayelsa state, HRH Emomotimi Odikeme-Okere, has vowed to prioritize education for youths of the community. Okere, who re-iterated his campaign promise during his swearing-in ceremony, weekend, noted that the bane of violence among youths in rural communities was as a result of lack
…Demand probe over deaths of fishes on waterways …Say, continuous negligence will lead to hostility in the region By Enaibo Asiayei & Ebi Perekeme The Gbaramatu Traditional Council of Chiefs, and the Movement for Itsekiri Oil/Gas producing Communities, MDIOGPC, on Sunday threatened to disrupt the $2.8 billion 614km Ajaokuta-Kaduna-Kano (AKK) if the Federal Government fails
High Chief Wellington Bobo the Oroupawei of Gbaramatu Kingdom yesterday declared that the ultimatum given by the Gbaramatu Kingdom is long overdue and is very much in order. Chief Wellington Bobo the Oroupawei of Gbaramatu Kingdom who spoke in Warri Delta State while addressing a group of selected journalists asserted that the best thing for
The Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Senator Godswill Akpabio, on Friday, said the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) had not made meaningful impact because it was only serving “greedy politicians” in the region. He stated this when he appeared before the Senate ad hoc committee on the alleged misappropriation of N40bn in the intervention agency
The Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) has given a boost to agriculture in the Niger Delta region by reviving its six tonnes per hour rice mill at Elele-Alimini, in Emohua Local Government Area of Rivers State. Speaking after inspecting the multi-million-naira mill, the NDDC Acting Managing Director, Professor Kemebradikumo Pondei, said that the facility, which
As part of the efforts to promote quality science education in Nigeria and other parts of Africa, Chevron co-sponsored the inaugural edition of the Summer Engineering Academy (SEA) virtual conference, organized by the Africa Leadership Academy (ALA). This initiative is designed for highly motivated and talented high school students from Nigeria and Angola, who are
The Dodo River Communities Development Association in Ekeremor Local Government Area of Bayelsa on Thursday, July 9, 2020 inaugurated projects worth over N141.65 million funded by the NNPC/Chevron Nigeria Limited Joint Venture. NAN reports that the beneficiary communities are Amatu I, Amatu II, Biabiri I, Bilabiri II and Bisangbene. The projects include Dodo River Secretariat
THE Chief Judge of Ondo State, Justice Olanrewaju Akeredolu, has rejected the move by the state House of Assembly to impeach the defected deputy governor. Justice Akeredolu rejection was contained in a letter she wrote to the House of Assembly in response to a directive that she should constitute a seven-man impeachment panel to probe
An advocacy group, Network for Defense and Good Governance (NDDGG), has called on the federal government to ensure that the Rivers State government gives account of its expenditure of the N78.9 billion reimbursement approved for the state recently. Last month, the federal government approved the fund as reimbursement for its spending on federal roads in
