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.
Memo to the incoming Governor of Delta state – Part II By GbaramatuVoice Editorial Board It is no longer news that the long awaited governorship election in Delta state is just a few days away. What is however, newsy is that out of the sixteen (16) of you that currently angle to succeed Governor Ifeanyi
Who approved the location of NELMIC gas plant in Effurun residential area? By GbaramatuVoice Editorial Board The recent painful fire incident that gutted NELMIC Gas Plant along the popular Effurun-Sapele road in Effurun, near Jakpa junction, Uvwie Local Government Area of Delta state, has again shown that while majority of states in the country has
Matters arising from Ejele’s marriage promise to Isoko women By GbaramtuVoice Editorial Board Evang. Michael Diden aka Ejele, is a household name in Delta state politics. Currently, he is the Chairman, Delta State Oil Producing Area Development Commission (DESOPADEC). He was also a former Member of the Delta state House of Assembly (DTHA), where he
13% Derivation: How Pa Clark’s letter to Governor Okowa vindicates GbaramatuVoice The latest declaration by the Ijaw national leader and convener of the Pan-Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF), Chief Edwin Kiagbodo Clark, that Governor of Delta State, Senator Ifeanyi Okowa, truly mismanaged the state resources, has again vindicated GbaramatuVoice Newspaper and confirmed as right the newspaper’s
Why Delta State Government must address incessant kidnappings, robbery attacks along Effurun-Sapele Expressway By GbaramatuVoice Editorial Board For the past five months, there has been a heightened report about incessant armed robbery attacks on motorists and other innocent travelers along Effurun-Sapele Expressway, precisely at the two part of the road from Aziza junction to Adeje,
Facts those selling Naira notes must not fail to remember By GbaramatuVoice Editorial Board Like every new invention which comes with both challenges and opportunities, GbaramtuVoice observes with dissatisfaction that the latest directive by Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) about the deadline on old N200, N500, N1000 Naira notes have created ‘great’ business opportunities for
Edo Modular Refinery: Lessons Niger Delta governors, FG must draw from Godwin Obaseki By GbaramatuVoice Editorial Board Gbaramatuvoice observes with pride some new developments in the Niger Delta region which indicates hopeful signs that the current leadership challenge bedeviling the region may not be total. Latest example to this ray of hope is the news
Have Niger Deltans truly benefitted from the PTDF scholarship? By GbaramatuVoice Editorial Board The Petroleum Technology Development Fund (PTDF), going by its enabling Act is a Federal Government Agency established in the year 2000, to lay a lasting foundation for growth and development, develop indigenous human capacity and petroleum technology to meet the needs of
Tantita Security Services in perspective By GbarmatuVoice Editorial Board When in the third quarter of 2022, Tantita Security Services Nigerian Limited (TSSNL), a company incorporated in Nigeria in 2005 was announced by the Nigeria National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) as one of the preferred companies to protect the nation’s crude oil bearing pipelines and other
OKOWA/OMO-AGEGE: Hidden issues surrounding the deplorable state of Sapele-Abraka-Agbor expressway By GbaramatuVoice Editorial Board As Deltans like their counterparts across the country braces up for the February 25th and March 11, 2023 general elections, GbaramatuVoice is sure that they would not need anybody to remind them that Sapele-Abraka-Agbor expressway is in a deplorable state. They
ONLINE POLL: Who will be the next Governor of Delta State 2023? Out of the sixteen (16) contenders jostling for the Dennis Osadebe House in Asaba in the forthcoming March 11, 2023 Delta State governorship election, who will be your most preferred candidate? VOTING ENDS MONDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2023. [socialpoll id=”2887521″] You can follow up
Ipidei and Etolor: One suspension by presidential amnesty office, two many By GbaramatuVoice Editorial Board To GbaramatuVoice, each passing day brings to mind how astray Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP) handlers have taken the once laudable initiative by the Federal Government introduced to among other objectives to bring peace and development to the Niger Delta region
PAP: Contradictions surrounding Ndiomu’s suspension of Niger Delta ex-agitators’ scholarship scheme By GbaramatuVoice Editorial Board Like every well meaning Niger Deltans of goodwill, the GbaramatuVoice received with shock, and watched with dismay the recent inconsiderate and reckless decision by the Federal Government of Nigeria’s suspension of the scholarship scheme for the Niger Delta ex-agitators under
Open letter to the newly constituted board of Niger Delta Development Commision (NDDC) By GbaramatuVoice Editorial Board The management of GbaramatuVoice Newspaper writes to congratulate the members of the newly constituted board of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) for the well deserved appointment. Going by their profiles at the public domain, it is obvious
Ogbe-Ijoh Political Rally Declarations: Questions For PDP By GbaramtuVoice Editorial Board During the Delta State People Democratic Party (PDP) campaign rally monitored by GbaramatuVoice, on Wednesday, January 4, 2023, at Ogbe-Ijoh, Headquarters of Warri South West Local Government of the state, the Newspaper listened with keen interest to some remarks by the party’s bigwigs. To
How the ongoing campaigns in Delta coastal communities is rapidly exposing politicians empty promises By GbaramatuVoice Editorial Board GbaramatuVoice has in the past three weeks watched with awe how the coastal communities in Burutu, Warri South West and Warri North Local Government Areas of Delta state have suddenly become a Mecca of the sort for
GbaramatuVoice: Our Appreciation and Resolve for 2023 By GbaramatuVoice Editorial Board As the world knocks at the entrance of 2023, the management and staff of Gbaramatu Publishing Company Limited, owners of the GbaramatuVoice Newspapers and Television, appreciates our teaming stakeholders for the unflinching support demonstrated in the year 2022 and by extension, in the past
APC Warri Boat Mishap – An Avoidable Human Carnage By GbaramatuVoice Editorial Board GbaramatuVoice expresses its deepest condolence to the families of the victims, of the human carnage which occurred in the night of Tuesday, December 20, 2022, involving one of the boats conveying members of Ovie Omo-Agege Campaign Organization from Okerenkoko/Ugborodo back to Warri
A critical analysis of Great Ogboru’s undying resolve to govern Delta state By GbaramatuVoice Editorial Board Recently, precisely on the 18th of December, 2022, the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Chief Great Ogboru, while unveiling his manifesto tagged “Jubilee Agenda” in Asaba, vowed to defeat the candidates of Peoples Democratic Party
Project remains in a shoddy condition after state water ministry received over N15b in 6 years
Matters arising from Delta State Government’s revocation of Sector A of the Ughelli-Asaba dual carriageway By GbaramatuVoice Editorial Board Similar to the feeling of excitement nursed by the generality of Deltans of goodwill, over the recent termination of the nine-year old contract for ‘Sector A’ of the Ughelli-Asaba dual carriageway, GbaramatuVoice Editorial Board commends the
Why Delta state government should honor Ebimaye Tangbe, the 31-year-old PhD graduate from U.S University By GbaramatuVoice Editorial Board Similar to the opinion shared by the generality of Nigerians, GbaramatuVoice believes that Nigeria is not a society of equal citizens where opportunities are equal and personal contribution is recognized and rewarded on merit regardless of
2023 General Elections: There is cause for Alarm! By GbaramatuVoice Editorial Board As the nation Nigeria braces up for the 2023 general elections, there are in the estimation of GbaramatuVoice, reasons to be worried, particularly, when a glance is cast at experiences from previous elections in the country. In fact, there is cause for alarm!
2009 MILITARY BOMBARDMENT: Why FG must pay N100 billion judgment debt to Gbaramatu kingdom ordered by Asaba Federal High Court By GbaramatuVoice Editorial Board It is not in any standard a good commentary that the Federal Government of Nigeria has remained in default years after a Federal High Court sitting in Asaba declared unconstitutional the
Now that the 2022 Ijaw/Itsekiri Peace and Unity Football Tournament has ended By GbaramatuVoice Editorial Board The grand finale of the Ijaw/Itsekiri Peace and Unity Football Tournament organised by Chief Sheriff Mulade’s Centre for Peace and Environmental Justice (CEPEJ), was held on Saturday, December 3, at the Ugborodo Township Stadium, Warri South West Local Government
Is it not possible for Ijaw ethnic nationality to harmonize its traditional marriage rites? By GbarmatuVoice Editorial Board Looking at multiple historical accounts at the public domain, GbaramatiVoice may not precisely, or categorically speak as to when Ijaw ethnic nationality originated. But one thing is certain; the Ijaws are people that are indigenous to the
Why Deltans must interrogate Okowa’s mismanagement of N240 billion received as 13% derivation arrears from the FG By GbaramatuVoice Editorial Board The Federal Government recent declaration that it disbursed a total of N1.98 trillion as share of the 13% oil derivation backlog paid to oil-producing states, has vindicated GbaramatuVoice Newspaper and again confirmed as right
2023: Tompolo phenomenon and what Niger Deltans stand to gain rallying round him By GbaramatuVoice Editorial Board The Friday, November 25, 2022 visit by Alhaji Ahmed Bola Tinubu, the All Progressive Congress (APC) presidential candidate in the forthcoming general election in the country, to Oporoza, the ancestral headquarters of Gbaramatu kingdom and home of High
Why Niger Deltans must vote out idol, visionless, voiceless, ill-willed and armchair representatives at both state and national assemblies By GbaramatuVoice Editorial Board It is an open secret that Niger Delta as a region has serially suffered what development professionals describes as Island poverty-that is, poverty in the midst of plenty. What is however of
Tompolo’s Pipeline Surveillance Contract: The Journey So Far By GbaramatuVoice Editorial Board Looking at the level of improvement in crude oil production in Nigeria, GbaramatuVoice can say without fear of contradiction that the pipeline surveillance contract awarded few months ago to the leader of the defunct Movement for Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), and
Why custodians of Ijaw tradition and culture must not allow Izon language go into extinction By GbaramatuVoice Editorial Board The Ijaw (Izon) ethnic nationality is the fourth largest ethnic group in Nigeria, with their ancestral homes in six states of the Federation (Delta, Edo, Bayelsa, Rivers, Ondo and Akwa-Ibom). As an ethnic group, there are
Pains arising from Federal Government’s wicked neglect of Warri Seaport By GbaramatuVoice Editorial Board The inconsiderate abandonment by the Federal Government of Nigeria of one of the nation’s most strategic Seaports – Warri Seaport, in Delta state, among others, is not only indicative of the numerous problems facing the people of the Niger Delta region,
The necessity of Ijaw/Itsekiri Peace and Unity Football Tournament By GbaramatuVoice Editorial Board As the 3rd edition of the Ijaw/Itsekiri Peace and Unity Football Tournament initiated by Chief Sheriff Mulade, Ibe-sorimowei of Gbaramatu kingdom and National Coordinator/CEO, Center for Peace & Environmental Justice (CEPEJ), kicks off on Wednesday, November 16, 2022, it will not be
GbaramatuVoice condemns Delta State Government’s callous description of 21 Deltans killed by the flood as “not many” By GbaramatuVoice Editorial Board The GbaramatuVoice Newspaper views as inhuman, thoughtless, callous and frowns at the Secretary to the Delta State Government, Patrick Ukah’s practical demonstration of flagrant disregard for human life by his latest description of twenty
Diesel Crisis: Urgent imperative of revitalizing proposed modular refineries project in the Niger Delta By GbaramatuVoice Editorial Board GbaramatuVoive views as irony the fact that Niger Delta region is the crude oil and gas mainstay of the country and partly that of the global community, yet, there exists energy crisis in the country resulting from
