How lack of master plan, absence of political will, and others derailed Okowa’s administration (Part II) By GbaramatuVoice Editorial Board Aside from the Governor’s lack of political will to develop master plan for the state development which was well deliberated on the first part of this commentary, another major factor that fueled Governor Okowa’s failure in

A note for Audu-Ohwavborua, the new NDDC boss By GbaramatuVoice Editorial Board History was made on Thursday, October 20, 2022, when President Muhammadu Buhari appointed Engr Emmanuel Audu-Ohwavborua as the new acting Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC). By this latest appointment, you (Audu-Ohwavborua), has shown clearly that ordinary calculation can be

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

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

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

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’

Dear Governor Okowa, please where is the promised Warri/Uvwie and Environs Development Agency? By GbaramatuVoice Editorial Board When Senator Ifeanyi Okowa, the Executive Governor of Delta State, announced on Wednesday, May 1, 2019, at a victory concert organized in Asaba, Delta state that plans are underway to establish Warri/Uvwie and Environs Development Agency, to address

Update on how Tompolo’s Tantita is improving the nation’s economy, making Niger Delta region livable By GbaramatuVoice Editorial Board As part of efforts to keep the global community abreast with developments in the Niger Delta region, Nigeria, GbaramatuVoice Newspaper authoritatively reports without mincing words that High Chief Government Ekpemupolo aka Tompolo, the Ibe-Ebidouwei of Ijaw

Delta state government’s comment on federal roads: A case of pot calling kettle black By GbaramatuVoice Editorial Board Each passing day brings to mind the fact that Delta State Government lacks capacity for self introspection, interrogation and examination. This particular weakness was again exemplified recently during their ill-informed press conference held in Asaba, the state

How government failures killed night life and created a slum in Warri By GbaramatuVoice Editorial Board Going by the well established definition of a slum as an urban residential area associated with poverty, deteriorated infrastructures or incomplete, and primarily inhabited by impoverished people, it will not be out of place to qualify Warri, Delta state,

Pipeline Surveillance Contract: An X-ray of Guardian Newspaper’s apology to Chief Tompolo By GbaramatuVoice Editorial Board  The recent apology tendered by the Guardian Newspaper to High Chief Government Oweizide Ekpemupolo aka Tompolo, the Ibe-Ebidouwei of Ijaw Nation, over a libelous editorial comment by the newspaper on the N48 billion pipeline surveillance contract recently awarded Tompolo

Pipeline Surveillance: How Tantita, Tompolo’s dedication is improving Nigeria’s economy By GbaramatuVoice Editorial Board Looking at the volume of intelligence reports dispatched that have led to shocking discoveries, and progress made curbing crude oil theft in the Niger Delta region, the GbaramatuVoice believes that the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL), took a right decision

Silent questions for members of Obidient Movement By GbaramatuVoice Editorial Board The GbaramatuVoice Newspaper has watched with keen interest the burniing desire by the Obidient Movement to institute a new political order in the country via the forthcoming 2023 general elections. For the sake of clarity, Obidient Movement is a newly formed political pressure group

How will pensioners in Delta state celebrate independence day? By GbaramatuVoice Editorial Board  As Deltans join the rest of Nigerians to mark yet another independence day on Saturday, October 1, 2022, the celebration provides GbaramtuVoice a great opportunity to reflect on how off track Governor Ifeanyi Okowa’s led administration has taken Delta state. From crushing

Decay at DESOPADEC: A prophesy foretold by GbaramatuVoice By GbaramatuVoice Editorial Board  It is no longer in doubt that the Delta state Oil Producing Areas Development Commission (DESOPADEC) is presently in shambles ‘courtesy of illicit interference by Senator Ifeanyi Okowa, the Executive Governor of Delta State. What is however newsy is that the current state

In Praise of Governor Wike’s Bridge Networks By GbaramatuVoice Editorial Board  As a media organization that operates within the South-South region of the country, the GbaramatuVoice have watched with awe, Governor Nyesom Wike’s led administration huge investment in education, health, human capital development and infrastructure in the past seven years in the state. Take as

Fix Effurun Roundabout Campaign: How Okowa, Omo -Agege, Fashola, Others Failed Niger Deltans By GbaramatuVoice Editorial Board  It is now a well known fact among Deltans and visitors to the state that there exists infrastructural collapse in Delta state. Across the sphere, from Delta Central to Delta South-even the Delta North senatorial district where the

GbaramatuVoice: Celebrating 7 years of robust journalism in the Niger Delta It has become a ritual of the sort that on August 8 of every year, the publisher, management and staff of Gbaramatu Publishing Company Limited, owners of GbaramatuVoice Newspaper roll out drums, and harps to celebrate the Newspaper’s anniversary-as its maiden edition was published

DELTA 2023: Why Ijaw gubernatorial aspirants must shun politics of divisiveness, blackmail  By GbaramatuVoice Editorial Board It is a common knowledge that the race to occupy the Osadebe House, Asaba, Delta State, come May 2023, has begun. Making the development interesting is that the Ijaw ethnic nationality, predominantly resident in six councils of Delta State,

By GbaramatuVoice Editorial Board  Douye Diri (born 4 June 1959) is the governor of Bayelsa State. He was the senator that represented Bayelsa Central Senatorial District until he emerged the state governor on February 14, 2020. For its part, Bayelsa State popularly called the ‘Glory of all Lands’ was formed in 1996 from Rivers State.

This editorial was first published November 20, 2017 When Senator (Dr.) Ifeanyi Arthur Okowa declared before the gathering of Delta State Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) stalwarts in 2015 that God revealed his Deputy to him even before he (Okowa) selected him, many viewed it as a conventional political statement. But looking at the personality of

By GbaramatuVoice Editorial Board  The GbaramatuVoice Newspaper joins the entire Deltans to give glory to God for the gift of life as the state celebrates 30 years of creation. Though the state has in the past 30 years under different leaderships made some appreciable progress in political, socioeconomic and infrastructural sectors, however, looking at the

By GbaramatuVoice Editorial Board  Douye Diri (born 4 June 1959) is the Governor of Bayelsa State. He was the senator that represented Bayelsa Central senatorial district until he emerged the state Governor on February 14, 2020. For its part, Bayelsa state popularly called the ‘Glory of all Lands’ was formed in 1996 from Rivers State.

BY GBARAMATUVOICE EDITORIAL BOARD  The Gbaramatu Publishing Company Limited, owners of the GbaramatuVoice Newspaper, joins the rest of the world to celebrate the World Press Day as declared by the United Nations General Assembly. This event is celebrated even as the newspaper prepares for another epoch-making ceremony-the 6th GbaramatuVoice Anniversary Lecture/Niger Delta Awards, slated for

By GbaramatuVoice Editorial Board At Gbaramatu Publishing Company Limited, owners of the GbaramatuVoice Newspaper, we have through our interface with all strata of personalities within the six years of our existence come to recognize some sets of new awareness. First is that journalism is a profession that avails one the opportunity to learn from those

By GbaramatuVoice Editorial Board  It is now a common knowledge that one of the self-contained and quietly influential international oil companies operating in the Gbaramatu Kingdom, Warri South West Local Government Area of Delta State, Chevron Nigeria Limited (CNL), has in the past weeks been in the news over a frosty relationship with the host

By GbaramatuVoice Editorial Board If there is any event in recent time in Gbaramatu Kingdom of Delta state, that accurately supports the correctness of the time-honoured belief that ‘the God of our land cannot lie’, it is the selection on Thursday February 25, 2016 of His Royal Majesty, Oboro-Gbaraun II, Aketekpe, Agadagba, as the 26th

BY GBARAMATUVOICE EDITORIAL BOARD It cannot in anyways be characterized as a good commentary that Bayelsa, a state created on October 1, 1996 out of the old Rivers State, is not living out its motto: Glory of All Lands. This statement of fact by the GbaramatuVoice on a state that has eight Local Government Areas: 8LGAs:

By GbaramatuVoice Editorial Board  Right from the day oil was discovered in Nigeria in 1956 at Oloibiri in the Niger Delta after half a century of exploration by Shell-BP, and the nation joined the ranks of oil producers in 1958, the region, due to lack of effective legislative framework that  provides strong source of remedy for individuals

By GbaramatuVoice Editorial Board  The July 23, 2020, Senate probe of the Interim Management Committee (IMC) of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) may have come and gone, but the dust raised by that exercise has refused to settle. This is as result of the stunning revelations made during the probe. Take as an instance,

His Excellency, Barr Kingsley Burutu Otuaro, Deputy Governor of Delta State celebrates his 52nd birthday today, April 16. The Editor-in-Chief of GbaramatuVoice Newspaper, Jacob Abai points out the need to reflect on the life of the humble-leader, who has shown commitment to work for the common good of his people in spite all odds. When

By GbaramatuVoice Editorial Board No matter how developed a given state might be, remote areas won’t be in dearth. Such areas would be very difficult to access, occasioned by lack of access roads. An example of such areas is the riverine communities in Warri South West, Burutu, Warri North and Bomadi Local Government Areas of

By GbaramatuVoice Editorial Board With the recent plans of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, to review the Niger Delta Regional Development Master Plan, it is a welcome development. But judging by the activities of the commission in the Niger Delta, this body that berthed in June 2000, and was created by Federal Acts No.

By GbaramatuVoice Editorial Board If there is any reason that has made our journey smooth and has aided our transition to the top as a corporate media organization within this short period, it is our founder’s shared belief that the function of the press is very high and almost holy. That it must serve as a