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 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
By GbaramatuVoice Editorial Board Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta state no doubt have been a happy man for the past few months and the reason is not far-fetched. His performance has been receiving accolades and his second term bid laced with torrents of endorsement. But one strange move that has unsettled him, threatened his political
By GbaramatuVoice Editorial Board A glance at the nation’s political arena in the past few weeks will reveal without labour that the President Muhammadu Buhari led Federal Government had taken some steps that are worthy of commendation. A state of affairs that has elicited joy among Nigerians as well as promoting peaceful coexistence among the
By GbaramatuVoice Editorial Board As the nation marks nineteen years of uninterrupted democracy in the land, it calls for celebration particularly when one recalls the socio-economic difficulties it had waded through within the last three years. Fresh in our memories is the harsh economic recession and its exit. Also in our views, it will be germane that as
By GbaramatuVoice Editorial Board One thing that has never been doubted in the history of our existence as a nation is our leaders’ abilities to generate great ideas/formulates policies that will enhance the lots of the citizenries. But, unfortunately, most of these ideas are never allowed to see the light of day or when allowed, they
By GbaramatuVoice Editorial Board The chain of electoral activities currently running on our political turfs points to the fact that the build-up to the all-important general election slated for 2019 has commenced. Such has become evidently visible in the Delta South senatorial district with Warri South West and other Ijaw communities as a case in
By GbaramatuVoice Editorial Board A peep into the nation’s political horizon, will but reveal that the preparation for the 2019 general election is in a top gear and only the strong hearted will be able to wade through and come successfully. As in war, those who want to emerge as candidates for the various
By GbaramatuVoice Editorial Board Very remarkably, the Niger Delta region, south-south geopolitical zone of Nigeria, has the highest volume of crude oil deposits in sub-Saharan Africa and doubles as the most neglected part of Nigeria in terms of infrastructural development, a scenario that has since set the stage for various forms of hostilities, youth restiveness, and
By GbaramatuVoice Editorial Board In the security circle, it is an established dictum that “killing a battalion is mere wickedness but defeating a troop without injury is the real victory.” This age-long principle has informed why the military cum security operatives are always proactive in their actions. But the above age-long aphorism is no longer
By GbaramatuVoice Editorial Board The recent Delta state local polls held on Saturday 6th January, 2018 against all permutations of violence has come and gone recording an appreciable peace and success when juxtaposed with that of previous years. This development/milestone in our views calls for celebration by all Deltans. Again, the Delta State Government and the Delta
By GbaramatuVoice Editorial Board For a greater part of 2017, Niger Delta had enjoyed mixed media reportage; the good, the bad and at some points, the message of hope. In line with our tradition at GbaramatuVoice, we present an objective prognosis of some of the events that attract national and international attention to the Niger
By GbaramatuVoice Editorial Board An elaborate Ijaw National Merit Award (INMA) recently organized by the Proudly Ijaw Indigenes of Nigeria (PIIN) , a socio-cultural group on Friday 22nd December, 2017, where the Executive Governor of Bayelsa state, His Excellency, Henry Seriake Dickson, GbaramatuVoice Newspaper among others received different awards has again renewed the need for unity among the
By GbaramatuVoice Editorial Board As trained security personnel, His Excellency, Henry Seriake Dickson, the Executive Governor of Bayelsa state, South-South geopolitical zone of Nigeria must have learned that development cannot thrive in the absence of peace and security. The above fact may have informed the dexterity and energy he dissipated towards ensuring that peace and
By GbaramatuVoice Editorial Board The recent advertisement by the Federal Government of Nigeria on national dailies calling on qualified applicants for different academic positions in the newly established Nigerian Maritime University, Okerenkoko in Gbaramatu Kingdom, Warri South West Local Government Area of Delta state was viewed by many as a right step taken in the right
By GbaramatuVoice Editorial Board The recent reaction of the Oba of Benin and the entire members of the Benin Traditional Council (BTC) to the coronation of King Godwin Ogunyenabo as the new Pere of Olodama kingdom in Edo has again heightened the hostility among the Binis and Ijaws in the state. For a clearer understanding,
By GbaramatuVoice Editorial Board For political and socio-cultural identity, Delta North Senatorial Zone is known as Anioma. A loose interpretation of Anioma is ‘good land’. Delta State Governor, Dr.(Senator) Ifeanyi Ekwueme Arthur Okowa is the first Anioma son to assume the governorship of the state. However, the euphoria with which Anioma people celebrated the ascension
GbaramatuVoice Editorial Board When Senator (Dr.) Ifeanyi 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 the current Deputy Governor, Barr. Kingsley Burutu Otuaro,
By Our Editorial Board Senator (Dr) Ifeanyi Okowa, the Executive Governor of Delta State during his campaign for the governorship position in 2015, tutored all that the major responsibility of a state governor is to secure lives and properties in the state. The above made him the people’s choice and eventually earned him the governorship position
By GbaramatuVoice Editorial Board When President Umaru Yar’adua in August, 2009, offered an unconditional pardon and cash payment to agitators who agree to lay down their arms and assemble at screening centres over the next sixty days, that was meant to achieve a particular deal. And that deal by the Nigerian government for militants in
By GbaramatuVoice Editorial Board The entire nation was on October 3, 2017, stunned with the Court of Appeal, Abuja decision granting an application filed by Oliseh Metuh to compel the ex-President to testify in the N400 million fraud charge brought against the applicant. The N400 million was alleged to have been disbursed from the office
By GbaramatuVoice Editorial Board On that day, in that place, at that time, while giving his acceptance speech shortly after receiving his Staff of Office in the month of December 2016, he left no one in doubt that he is a man with a conceptualised vision and unstoppable dreams. He also, through his actions and inactions proved
By Our Editorial Board Established in June 2000, the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) was created by Federal Acts No. 6, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria by the then President Olusegun Obasanjo administration. The commission is an amalgam of all the oil producing states in Nigeria which includes Abia, Akwa-Ibom, Bayelsa, Cross River, Delta, Edo, Imo, Ondo and Rivers states.
By GbaramatuVoice Editorial Board South-South region is one of the six geopolitical zones that make up the political entity called Nigeria. The zone is also referred to as the Niger Delta because of its location at the bank of the Atlantic Ocean. As expected of the delta region, the zone is characterized by swampy and marshy environment but
By GbaramatuVoice Editorial Board One of the powers expressly given by the nation’s constitution to both the President of the Federation and the State Governors is the power to create or establish Commissions and Agencies where necessary. These Commissions when created are expected to serve a definite purpose within a specific area and period. The
By GbaramatuVoice Editorial Board Nigeria as a federating state also operates a three tier form of government, to wit; the Federal, the States and the Local Government Areas. Based on this arrangement, the Nigeria nation has 36 States and the Federal Capital Territory. She is also blessed with 774 Local Government Areas, out of which
By Our Editorial Board Universally, the military is eulogized for her ‘formlessness and spiritlike’ prowess. This attribute has stood the military far apart from other professions. In the same vein, Sun Tzu, a great warlord of old reinforced this position when he once described the military as ‘’a Tao of deception, and thus, when able,
By GbaramatuVoice Editorial Board Oil bearing communities of Niger Delta, despite being the nation’s source of crude oil, had no easy access to Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) and other related products until 2004 when former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, visited the region. As at that time, Chief Obasanjo resolved to alleviate the suffering of the riverine
By GbaramatuVoice Editorial Board As the Governor of Delta State, Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa set to rob minds with Deltans through town hall meeting scheduled to commence Tuesday May 9, 2017 at Isoko Local Government Areas, the people are looking forward to having a fruitful and result oriented meeting. One, is however forced to be skeptical about town
For the first time in the history of the commission that budget no longer makes meaningful to its runnings, the 2016 budget was not implemented while it bleeds in silence yet the government still shameless go about preaching about prosperity. What is the true meaning of prosperity when Deltans are suffering?
By Gbaramatu Voice Editorial Board At a time when there where so much noise and chanting about prosperity for all Deltans slogan was preached to all nook and cranny of the State, many thought the Messiah that the people have been waiting for has arrived earlier than they had imagined. The reign of His Excellency,
The demands this time should not be palliatives, patronages or stop-gap measures. It must be conclusive.
THE KAIAMA DECLARATION By IJAW YOUTHS OF THE NIGER DELTA BEING COMMUNIQUE ISSUED AT THE END OF THE ALL IJAW YOUTHS CONFERENCE WHICH HELD IN THE TOWN OF KAIAMA THIS 11TH DAY OF DECEMBER 1998. INTRODUCTION We, Ijaw youths drawn from over five hundred communities from over 40 clans that make up the Ijaw nation and representing
A house divided against itself cannot stand, therefore, the coming together of different groups in the region is highly commendable as it will serve as a platform through which the Niger Delta yearnings are presented to the government and the world in general.
