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.
By Ebi Perekeme The people of Asari-Toru Local Government Area, ASALGA received the directive of the Nigeria Centre For Disease Control, (NCDC) to shut down for 21 days following the sudden demise of the executive chairman of Area, Odiari Princewill, who was said to have died from coronavirus with mixed feeling. A statement signed by
By Ebi Perekeme Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) headquarters in Port Harcourt was shut on Thursday following the death of the agency’s Acting Executive Director of Finance and Administration, Mr Ibanga Etang. He was a member of the NDDC Interim Management Committee (IMC). Etang died at about 2 am on Thursday at the Rivers State
Pan Niger Delta Forum, PANDEF, has condemned in its entirety, a recent uncouth statement credited to the Group General Manager, Group Public Affairs of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, Mr. Kennie Kehinde Obateru, on appointments and promotions in the Corporation. The statement which is presumably a response to issues raised in our open letter
By Ebi Perekeme THE Pan Niger Delta Forum, PANDEF and the United Niger Delta Energy Development Security Strategy, UNDEDSS, on Monday, restated calls for the Federal Government to relocate the mega dry dock, specifically designed for the region, from Lagos waters. The groups said the dry dock had been lying unused and should be relocated
By Loveth Ojogun Kurutie Community in Gbaramatu kingdom, Warri South West Local Government Area of Delta State, has inaugurated new youth executive to manage their youth affairs for the next two years. Chief Dickson Wereyesigha, the Amaokosuwei of Kurutie Community, who was flanked by Chiefs of the community, inaugurated the officers in the community’s town
The Federal Ministry of Education has approved the dissolution of the Governing Councils of the Nigerian Maritime University, Okerenkoko, Delta State and University of Port Harcourt, in Rivers State. The ministry stated on Thursday that the dissolution, which came from the Office of the Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, was with immediate effect. The Director
By Ebi Perekeme The acting Director of Finance and Accounts of the Niger Delta Development Commission, (NDDC), Chief Ibanga Bassey Etang, is dead. According to Daily Independent, Chief Etang is said to have died at the Braithwaite Memorial Hospital (BMH), in Port Harcourt after he allegedly took ill and gasping for breath at about 2am,
My Distinguished Elder Statesman, Father and Leader, Senator Chief Dr Edwin K. Clark, OFR, CON: As I prepare to join Deltans and millions of admirers tomorrow, May 25, to say “Happy 93rd Birthday!”, my heart wells up with admiration at your inspiring commitment to education as your legacy/torch for the people’s liberation and unity of
By Ebi Perekeme Barring any last minute intervention, the Pan Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF), a non-political organisation of the Niger Delta people, has warned that it would not hesitate to drag the government of President Muhammadu Buhari to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) and the United Nations (UN) over what it described as “an
By James Edet Nigeria Medical Association (NMA), Cross River branch has raised concerns over recent possible coronavirus (COVID-19) deaths in the state, demanding that the state government puts more effort in scaling up the level of preparedness and containment of the deadly virus. The group stated that it had received several reports from the Surveillance
No fewer than ten members of Akwa Ibom Government House Press Corps are reported to have tested positive to Covid-19. Members of the press corps were, according to our source subjected to test early Wednesday morning, following an earlier test result which confirmed one of the cameramen attached to government house to have been positive.
By Francis Ndimkoha The Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) was established in the 3rd Quarter of the Year 2000, under the Act No.6 of the National Assembly which provides for the repeal of the defunct Oil Mineral Producing Areas Commission Decree 1998. This bold move was geared towards a re-organized management structure for an effective
By Ekanpou Enewaridideke The forest is the comfiest home of biodiversity where there has been no invasion of the ecological composition of that biological world. But where no croaking, screeching, hooting, chirping, flapping of wings of birds suddenly caught bedraggled in the ‘JPCLARKED’ night rain, where there is no hissing, or no crackling of leaves
By Ebi Perekeme The Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, has kicked off the distribution of medical supplies, relief Materials and Public Enlightenment Campaign to contain the spread of Coronavirus Disease, covid-19, across the Niger Delta Region. In a statement by Charles Obi Odili, Director, Corporate Affairs, May 21, and made available to GbaramatuVoice, it was
By Loveth Ojogun A man whose name was given as Owei Edun from Ajakurama community in Egbema Kingdom of Ovia South West Local Government Area of Edo State has committed suicide, after impregnating his daughter. Edun was residing at Jones Creek in Gbaramatu kingdom, Warri South West Local Government Area of Delta State. He was
By Ebi Perekeme The Leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, has faulted the establishment of Niger-Delta and South-South in Nigeria. In a statement he sent to newsmen, through Emma Powerful, the group’s publicity secretary, Kanu argued that Abia, Cross River, Akwa Ibom are the same people. He said there
A supply vessel, ‘M/T DEVISA’ has crashed into the breakwaters of the Escravos channels damaging the vessel and part of the mole. Speaking to Vanguard Maritime Report on the development, Captain Tobi Charlie, Managing Director of Escravos Pilots Nig. Limited, said that the vessel was travelling at night when the accident occurred adding that immediately
By Ebi Perekeme The Delta State Government has recorded its sixth COVID-19 death which occurred in the early hours of this morning, Wednesday, May 20, 2020 at the Central Hospital, Warri. The Delta State Commissioner for Health Dr. Mordi Ononye made this known today in a statement. According to the Commissioner the 28th case which
By Ebi Perekeme A medical doctor has tested positive for COVID-19 in Bayelsa State, bringing the number of active cases in the state to two. Governor Douye Diri announced the new confirmed case on Tuesday during a meeting of the COVID-19 Taskforce, which he chairs, at the Government House, Yenagoa. A press release by his
The Federal Government has told Nigerians to prepare for the worst in the COVID-19 battle. It however said it was doing everything within its powers to curtail spread of the virus. Minister of Health, Dr. Osagie Ehanire, stated this on Tuesday during the briefing of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19. He urged health workers
By James Nwosu The Rivers State Government has resumed another round of total lockdown after giving Port Harcourt and Obio/Akpor residents four days to restock their houses with food and essential commodities. The lockdown, which began by 8pm on Sunday, forced residents of both areas to rush home in order to beat the deadline and
By Ebi Perekeme Delta Government on Tuesday said it had begun moves to establish a security force to check rising insecurity in the state. Secretary to the State Government, Mr Chiedu Ebie, made this known at a news conference in Asaba, and said that the proposed security outfit would be christened “Operation Delta Hawk”. Ebie
Unknown gunmen have reportedly killed an Ijaw youth leader along Udu Road, in Udu Local Government Area of Delta State. It was learnt that the deceased, who was the National Spokesman for the Ijaw Interest Advocate, a.k.a, Izanzan Camp, Mr. Famous Belief Wonikiri-Ebi, was allegedly shot dead. It was gathered that the incident occurred on
By Osahon Osahon Jubilation on Monday greeted the ancient Benin Kingdom as the Benin Traditional Council announced the birth of a new prince of the kingdom to Oba Ewuare ll, Oba of Benin. The new prince was delivered by one of the Oba’s Queens, Her Royal Highness, Queen Iyayota of Benin Kingdom. The new Prince
Armed men have killed three people at Ibusa in Oshimili North Local Government Area of Delta State, reports New Telegraph. For fear of the unknown on Monday, farmers refused to go to their farms, even as the vigilantes in the town have embarked on search of the perpetrators. Men of the Divisional Police Headquarters in
A woman identified as Mrs. Florence Onuobodo has lost her life in Elele Kingdom, Ikwerre Local Government Area of Rivers State, during a stampede that occurred during the sharing of the state government’s COVID-19 palliative in the area, Vanguard reports. The Rivers State Government had delivered food to Elele Kingdom in the ongoing distribution of
The Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) has described as ‘unfortunate and condemnable,’ the continued obstruction of the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) by the governments of Kogi and Cross River State. “This impedance is despite the lofty provisions in the NCDC Establishment Act (2018) which empower the organization to “prevent, detect, monitor and control” activities
By Solomon Asha Today, I feel like a monarch, I feel like an Eagle soaring so high above other birds of the air. I feel elated and satisfied that today the visiting officials of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) to Calabar officially confirmed that Cross River State has no case of COVID-19. They
—Calls South-South governors cowards in sharing of palliative & relief fund A Niger Delta activist and Coordinator of Ijaw Monitoring Group, Comrade Joseph Evah, has told President Muhammadu Buhari not to be intimidated by the World Health Organisation in his bid to adopt Madagascar’s herbal drug for the treatment of COVID-19 in the country. In
By Enaibo Asiayei A literary activist, Mr Ekanpou Enewaridideke, has alerted the police authorities of a plot by some persons in Ayakoromo and Akparemogbene communities in Burutu Local Government Area of Delta State to author a frivolous petition with criminal allegations to Nigerian Police in order to arrest, embarrass and keep him in jail. In
By Enaibo Asiayei Delta Government on Monday said it had begun active case search in six local government areas in a bid to check community transmission of COVID-19 in the state. The Commissioner for Health, Dr Mordi Ononye, disclosed this in Asaba at a news briefing by the Technical Committee on COVID-19 Response in the
A 13-year-old girl has reportedly committed suicide in Warri, Delta State, after being beaten up for engaging in sex. It was gathered that the teenager, who lived with an elder sister, was seen with a man presumed to be her lover. Her sister beat her up, and she drank an insecticide and died behind a
Our Father, the maker of heaven and earth, and the healer of all diseases, we thank you for the way you have protected us and our families since the outbreak of the disease called COVID 19. Lord, you have your reasons for introducing Covid 19 into the world. The reasons we do not know, but
By Ebi Perekeme Niger Delta leaders under the aegis of Pan Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF) have condemned what they called lopsided appointments into top management positions at the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and its subsidiaries and departments in favour of the northern part of the country. Their position was contained in an open letter
Traditional rulers in Rivers State have sought the intervention of the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), to reverse the order by the Inspector General of Police to set up a Joint Technical Task Force on the movement of livestock, agricultural products, goods and services. The monarchs, who spoke while briefing newsmen on Saturday, expressed
