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The invaded birds and the animals 

THE INVADED BIRDS AND THE ANIMALS Invaded by flood, the ground-dwelling birds and the animals are swepf off their familiar territory Away they journey ‘Zele zele’ unto the abode of their neighbours expectant of warmth like a bedraggled hunter right before the hearth ALSO READ: The political lucifers, by Ekanpou Enewaridideke Their neighbours kill them

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Opinion

Tompolo’s fight against oil theft, a snuff on the nose of Nigerians

Tompolo’s fight against oil theft, a snuff on the nose of Nigerians By Enaibo Asiayei  For the bleeding economy to resurrect, there must be a battle for a man who has proven moral and sacred emblem of integrity, selflessness, true to self, focus and determination without fear of the unknown bullets of tomorrow. Yes, someone

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News

Ijaw nation across the world sets to pay last respect to Mama Timiyan in Ogulagha kingdom 

Ijaw nation across the world sets to pay last respect to Mama Timiyan in Ogulagha kingdom  If there is an account in recent history that certainly confirms as true that ‘great men and women don’t decide to become extraordinary, rather, they decide to accomplish extraordinary things’, it is the life time account of Late Chief

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Breaking News

7 feared dead as gunmen attack Apostle Suleman in Edo

7 feared dead as gunmen attack Apostle Suleman in Edo Seven persons made up of three policemen and four domestic staff of fiery pastor, Apostle Johnson Suleman of the Omega Fire Ministries were killed late Friday near Auchi at the Water Tank Junction along the Warake -Auchi Road on his way to Auchi returning from

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News

We will do things right, NDDC Acting MD Assures …resumes duty 

We will do things right, NDDC Acting MD Assures …resumes duty  The Acting Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, Engr. Emmanuel Audu-Ohwavborua has pledged to do the right things at the Commission going forward. Speaking upon arrival at the Port Harcourt International Airport, Omagwa where he was received by Directors of the

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Breaking News

BREAKING: Supreme court affirms Oborevwori as Delta PDP guber candidate

BREAKING: Supreme court affirms Oborevwori as Delta PDP guber candidate The supreme court has affirmed the nomination of Sherrif Oborevwori, speaker of Delta state house of assembly, as the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). ALSO READ: DELTA PDP GOVERNORSHIP TUSSLE: Tension, anxiety as Supreme Court decides Oborevwori, Edevbie’s fate today Delivering judgment

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News Oil & Gas

NNPCL appoints five Executive Vice Presidents

NNPCL appoints five Executive Vice Presidents …Adokiye named Executive Vice President, Upstream As part of its resolve to position itself for greater growth and profitability, the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Ltd has appointed five Executive Vice Presidents. According to a report by The Whistler, the appointment is part of the progress being made in the

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Special Report

Searchlight on Robinson Plaza where landlord forces tenants to join his campaign train in Warri

Searchlight on Robinson Plaza where landlord forces tenants to join his campaign train in Warri There is a blanket belief that in Nigeria, the majority of public office holders (both past and serving) are often always reputed for circumventing the nation’s constitution while infringing on the rights of the poor and lowly. There is also

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Editorial

How lack of master plan, absence of political will, others derailed Okowa’s administration

How lack of master plan, absence of political will, others derailed Okowa’s administration By GbaramatuVoice Editorial Board As the Senator Ifeanyi Okowa’s led administration in Delta state approaches the exit door, a searchlight on the Governor’s performance in the past seven (7) years reveals one thing; he started off with high moral standards, strong conviction

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National News

OFFICIAL: Kogi receives first payment of 13 percent derivation fund as oil producing state

OFFICIAL: Kogi receives first payment of 13 percent derivation fund as oil producing state …emerges first Northern oil producing state  The Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello has confirmed the receipt of first payment of the 13 percent derivation fund as an oil producing state. Governor Bello disclosed this during the State Executive Council meeting on

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Politics

DELTA PDP GOVERNORSHIP TUSSLE: Tension, anxiety as Supreme Court decides Oborevwori, Edevbie’s fate today

DELTA PDP GOVERNORSHIP TUSSLE: Tension, anxiety as Supreme Court decides Oborevwori, Edevbie’s fate today  The Supreme Court of Nigeria will on Friday October 21, 2022 decide the gubernatorial candidate between the Delta State House of Assembly Speaker, Hon. Sheriff Oborevwori and the state’s former Commissioner of Finance, Chief David Edevbie, in the disputed Delta State

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National News

NDDC: Buhari appoints Audu-Ohwavborua as acting Managing Director

NDDC: Buhari appoints Audu-Ohwavborua as acting Managing Director President Muhammadu Buhari, on Thursday appointed a new Managing Director, Engr. Emmanuel Audu-Ohwavborua, for the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC. According to a statement released by the Ministry of Niger Delta Affairs, the appointment is in an acting capacity pending the appointment of a substantive managing director.

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Breaking News

Buhari sacks NDDC sole administrator, Akwa, orders constitution of a new board

Buhari sacks NDDC sole administrator, Akwa, orders constitution of a new board President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the disengagement of the Interim Administrator of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Effiong Okon Akwa. In a memo signed by the Director of press, Ministry of Niger Delta Affairs, Patricia Deworitshe, Buhari ordered that the directive should

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News

Flood: DESOPADEC distributes relief materials to Ijaw ethnic nationality

Flood: DESOPADEC distributes relief materials to Ijaw ethnic nationality As part of its resolve to providing succor to the flood displaced victims in the state, Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission (DESOPADEC) on Tuesday, October 18, 2022, distributed relief materials purchased for the victims of the ravaging flood waters that have overwhelmed and taken

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Maritime News

Crude Oil Theft: Nigerian Navy hands over vessels, crew to EFCC for investigation 

Crude Oil Theft: Nigerian Navy hands over vessels, crew to EFCC for investigation  Two vessels, MT Platform and MV Caribbean Crest alongside a crew of 22 suspected oil thieves were on Tuesday, October 18, 2022 handed over to the EFCC for further investigation and possible prosecution by the Nigerian Navy. Commanding officer of the Nigerian

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National News

Senate summons Niger Delta minister over alleged plot to divert NDDC’s 480b funds

Senate summons Niger Delta minister over alleged plot to divert NDDC’s 480b funds The Senate has summoned the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Mr. Umana Okon Umana, over alleged plot to siphon N480 billion intervention fund belonging to the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC and domicile it in the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, without

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News

Flood: Declare Niger Delta emergency zone, NDYC tells Federal Government 

Flood: Declare Niger Delta emergency zone, NDYC tells Federal Government  …Seeks NNPC, IOCs assistance Niger Delta Youth Council (NDYC) , has urged the Federal Government to urgently declare the Niger Delta region of the country an emergency zone in ways that will radically address the challenges posed by flood to the people and the environment.

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Editorial

Flooding: Ecological funds and governments that failed their people

Flooding: Ecological funds and governments that failed their people By GbaramatuVoice Editorial Board  As flood continues to ravage many of the Southern States of the country and Niger Delta region in particular, GbaramatuVoice Newspaper sympathizes with affected/displaced Nigerians. Notably, GbaramtuVoice within this period visited so many of the affected victims in various villages and towns

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Opinion

DESOPADEC and the Fifty Grass Cutting Machines

DESOPADEC and the Fifty Grass Cutting Machines By Jerome-Mario Chijioke Utomi The recent news report that Delta State Oil Producing Area Development Commission (DESPADEC) donated fifty (50) grass cutting machines, to the good people of Okerenkoko community in Gbaramatu Kingdom, Warri South Local Government of Delta state, has again shows an agency that is yet

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National News

Army chief flags off ‘Exercise Still Water’ to curb oil theft in Niger Delta

Army chief flags off ‘Exercise Still Water’ to curb oil theft in Niger Delta The Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant Gen. Farouk Yahaya, on Tuesday flagged off three joint military exercises to curb oil theft, banditry, cultism, kidnapping and other criminalities across the country. The joint military exercises namely, Exercise Golden Dawn is expected to

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National News

Wike endorses Sanwo-Olu for second term, donates N300 million to Lagos women

Wike endorses Sanwo-Olu for second term, donates N300 million to Lagos women Rivers State Governor, Barr. Nyesom Wike, on Tuesday declared total support for the re-election bid of Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu in the 2023 general elections. Wike who has been running battle with his political party, People’s Democratic Party (PDP) over the emergency

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News

Presidential Amnesty Programme originally designed to end in 2015, says Ndiomu

Presidential Amnesty Programme originally designed to end in 2015, says Ndiomu The Interim Administrator, Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP), Maj.-Gen Barry Ndiomu (retd), has explained the policy document of the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP), saying it was originally designed to end in 2015. Ndiomu, who spoke after a crucial meeting with the King of Okochiri in

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News Oil & Gas

Nigeria’s crude oil production to increase next week – Kyari, NNPC Boss

Nigeria’s crude oil production to increase next week – Kyari, NNPC boss The Group Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, NNPCL, Mele Kyari , has given indication that NNPCL will resume pumping of crude oil through its pipelines assets within the next one week. The Group Chief Executive Officer of the

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News

GbaramatuVoice opens Interventionist Food Bank for flood victims

GbaramatuVoice opens Interventionist Food Bank for flood victims As part of our Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), GbaramatuVoice will on Monday, October 17, 2022, open its usual Interventionist Food Bank for people affected by the flood in Delta coastal communities and its environs. Established in January 2020, GbaramatuVoice Interventionist Food Bank programme is an initiative aimed

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Editorial

An open letter to Major General Barry Ndiomu (rtd.), New Interim Administrator, Presidential Amnesty Programme

An open letter to Major General Barry Ndiomu (rtd.), New Interim Administrator, Presidential Amnesty Programme By GbaramatuVoice Editorial Board Dear sir, Members of the Editorial Board, GbaramatuVoice Newspaper, writes to congratulate you on your recent appointment as the Interim Coordinator, Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP). While the newspaper congratulates you for this feat achieved, it equally

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News

Increase surveillance contract sum paid Tompolo for optimum performance, Asonja, Ilaje youth leader tells FG

Increase surveillance contract sum paid Tompolo for optimum performance, Asonja, Ilaje youth leader tells FG …Says Tompolo should be considered for National Honor …Hails Pondi, Tantita’s MD High Chief Asonja Idowu, frontline youth ambassador and prominent stakeholder of Ilaje extraction in Ondo state, has called on the Group Chief Executive Officer of Nigerian National Petroleum

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Editorial

Warri South West Local Government and contradiction of leadership understanding in Delta state

Warri South West Local Government and contradiction of leadership understanding in Delta state By GbaranmatuVoice Editorial Board It is now evident that the greatest public leadership challenge that has befallen Delta as a state is largely attributable to the leaders’ lack of political will to transform the state. This situation is made worse by followers’

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Special Report

DELTA: Tears, sorrow and blood as Patani community battles flooding

DELTA: Tears, sorrow and blood as Patani community battles flooding …we are going through tough times – Pere of Kabowei Kingdom ..says he will remain in the flood with his subjects “I will be the last person to flee the kingdom while my subjects are suffering”  GbaramatuVoice on Thursday, October 13, 2022, as it has

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Opinion

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s objectification of Timiebi

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s objectification of Timiebi BY EKANPOU ENEWARIDIDEKE The proverbially universal truth remains that it takes one brave act for alligator to cut itself open one day for a targeted daring task.Allergic to the pains of a fruitless journey I must reveal quite early like the persona in Wole Soyinka”s ‘Telephone Conversation’ that I

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Education News

DELTA: Inside Egbema schools where students learn in poor conditions 

DELTA: INSIDE EGBEMA SCHOOLS WHERE STUDENTS LEARN IN POOR CONDITIONS  GbaramatuVoice recently visited Egbema kingdom in Warri North Local Government Area of Delta state, on a fact finding mission. Some of the communities visited include: Opuama, Polobubo, Ogbudugbudu, and Ogbinbiri communities. Below are the pictures of Oloduwa Primary and Secondary Schools in Opuama community. The

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National News

[PHOTOS] NNPCL, top security agencies, others visit newly discovered illegal pipeline in Delta

[PHOTOS] NNPCL, top security agencies, others visit newly discovered illegal pipeline in Delta Senior officials of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL), top security personnel and the media, today, inspected the newly discovered illegal crude oil pipeline connected to the Trans Forcados Export Trunkline and linked to an abandoned platform in the high sea

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National News

BREAKING: Tompolo discovers another major illegal crude oil pipeline at Trans Forcados Pipeline in Delta [Video]

BREAKING: Tompolo discovers another major illegal crude oil pipeline at Trans Forcados Pipeline in Delta [Video] [EXCLUSIVE] Tompolo makes another shocking discovery in Delta, detects illegal oil pipeline connected to high sea Watch GbaramatuVoice Exclusive video below…

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Breaking News

[EXCLUSIVE] Tompolo makes another shocking discovery in Delta, detects illegal oil pipeline connected to high sea

[EXCLUSIVE] Tompolo makes another shocking discovery in Delta, detects illegal oil pipeline connected to high sea The Tantita Security Services Nigeria Limited, a company owned by High Chief Government Ekpemupolo aka Tompolo, has discovered another massive illegal crude oil pipeline attached to Trans Forcados Export Trunkline connected directly to the high sea in Delta state.

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National News

BREAKING: Finally, ASUU suspends strike 8-months after

BREAKING: Finally, ASUU suspends strike 8-months after The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has suspended its eight-month-old strike conditionally. The union decided to suspend the strike during a meeting of its leadership that started on Thursday night and lasted into the early hours of Friday. The meeting was called by the union to determine

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Breaking News

BREAKING: Appeal Court frees Nnamdi Kanu

BREAKING: Appeal Court frees Nnamdi Kanu The Court of Appeal, Abuja Division has set free, the leader of the Indeginous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu of the treasonable felony charges preferred against him by the Federal Government. The three-member panel of Justices of the Appellate Court, in a judgement delivered on Thursday, set aside

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