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 Loveth Ojogun Students of Delta State Polytechnic, Ogwashi-Uku, Aniocha South Local Government Area of the State, have destabilized academic activities over alleged extortion, increased school fees, payment of COVID-19 fees which they said is no longer acceptable to them. Trouble started on Wednesday 24th March 2021, when the angry students blocked the Rector of
13% Derivation Fund – last 15 years 2006: ₦423.4b 2007: ₦437.4b 2008: ₦637.8b 2009: ₦455.3b 2010: ₦548.5b 2011: ₦765.3b 2012: ₦774.3b 2013: ₦844.3b 2014: ₦694.3b 2015: ₦410.3b 2016: ₦294.7b 2017: ₦417.1b 2018: ₦640.1b 2019: ₦572.5b 2020: ₦520.4b What is your take on this?
By Loveth Ojogun The popular reality TV show will top previous seasons as organisers – Multichoice Nigeria – announced a grand prize of N90 million. MultiChoice Nigeria, on Wednesday, March 24, announced that it is offering customers on its DStv and GOtv platforms the opportunity to be among the first to be auditioned for the
By Our Correspondent The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has announced that the 2021 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) registration exercise commences on Thursday, April 8 to Saturday, May 15, 2021. The exam body, which made this known in a statement on Wednesday in Abuja, also announced the commencement of registration of candidates for
By Our Correspondent High Chief Wellington Bobo, the Oroupawei of Gbaramatu Kingdom in a media parley with select Journalists in the Niger Delta Region, identified disunity and bad leadership as the bane of underdeveloped of the Niger Delta region. He added that the menace of the common man in the Niger Delta region can only
By Enaibo Asiayei Star Deepwater Petroleum Limited, a company belonging to Chevron Nigeria Limited, also an operator of the Agbami field, alongside other parties in the Agbami field have donated a model block of classrooms to Government college, Ughelli, Delta state. The other parties in the Agbami field are the – Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation
By Ebi Oboko There was mild drama on the floor of the Senate on Tuesday as former Bayelsa State governor and Senator representing Bayelsa West, Seriake Dickson, took on his counterpart from Adamawa Central, Aishatu Binani Ahmed, over what he called a factual error by the latter. Presenting her lead debate on a bill she
By Our Correspondent Tension has gripped Egbemoru community in the Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of Bayelsa State over the burning of Agip Oil pipelines by armed men suspected to be militants. Sources say the attack is not unconnected to a battle over who takes control of the surveillance contracts being handled by a security
By Ruth Oromoni No fewer than three young men have been reportedly killed in a renewed cult clash on Tuesday morning in Owhase and Ovwian communities, Udu council area of Delta state. Residents reportedly woke up to see the lifeless body of one of the deceased simply identified as Otobo close to New York Junction,
By Faith Madogwe The Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, has called for the collaboration and support of Belgium in areas of health, environment, youth empowerment and development of critical infrastructure in the Niger Delta region. The NDDC Interim Administrator, Mr. Efiong Akwa, made the call when the Belgian Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr. Daniel Bertrand, paid
By Our Correspondent The Army will soon move against separatist agitators such as Asari Dokubo and Sunday Igboho, Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt. -Gen. Ibrahim Attahiru, has stated. Attahiru’s warning was delivered in Uyo at the first Commanding Officers’ Workshop 2021. Igboho recently unilaterally declared the South west part was no longer part of
By Our Correspondent Palpable tension and fears have enveloped the Egbemoru community in Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of Bayelsa State as gunmen, suspected to be former militants, set pipelines belonging to the Nigerian Agip Oil Company (NAOC) on fire. It was learnt that the development was due to an alleged supremacy battle between some
By Ebi Perekeme Preparation is already underway as High Chief Government Oweizide Ekpemupolo predominantly referred to as Tompolo by his admirers will lead teaming Ijaw sons and daughter across the nation to worship at this year’s Bini-ebi Madinorbo Annual Festival. The three days event is scheduled to hold between March 29 to 31 at
By Ebi Perekeme The Federal Government, on Monday, inaugurated the construction of six water projects worth N6 billion, in Ogoni communities in Rivers, as recommended by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP). The Minister of Environment, Dr. Mohammad Abubakar, said at the ceremony that the federal government was fully committed to actualising the UNEP recommendation that potable water should be
By Ebi Perekeme The 2,500 barrels per day modular refinery being established at Egbokor, Edo State, South South Nigeria, by Duport Midstream Company Limited in partnership with the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) will be ready for commissioning in the last quarter of this year. The Executive Secretary of NCDMB, Simbi Kesiye Wabote,
By Our Correspondent The people of Egbema kingdom in Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni Local Government Area of Rivers State have given a seventy-two-hour ultimatum to Nigerian Agip Oil Company to implement its 1999 Memorandum of Understanding, MoU, or face the anger of the communities. This was one of the highlights of a town hall meeting of the Egbema
By Faith Madogwe Ex-militants from the coastal area of Ondo State, on Monday, protested over their non-inclusion in the Presidential Amnesty Programme of the Federal Government, threatening to return to the creek if the Federal Government failed to include them in the programme. The angry protesters who are from the Ilaje and Ese-Odo Local Government
…Call on FG, DTSG to intervene …many are sick, others have lost their means of livelihood By Ebi Perekeme One week after the reported oil spillage in Polobubo and Opuama communities, Warri North Local Government Area of Delta state, the victims of the devastating spillage have again cried out to President Muhammadu Buhari and
By Our Correspondent Controversy over transparency of the marginal fields 2020 bid round processes has worsened the confidence of participants following alleged hijack by money bags determined to acquire some of the fields offered by the Department of Petroleum Resources ( DPR). According to the 2020 guideline, a marginal field is any field that has
By Our Correspondent Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Godswill Akpabio, has disclosed that the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) will spend N90b for the nine states of the region in its integrated agricultural programme to train youths in fish, rabbit and pig farming. Akpabio stated this when the French Ambassador to Nigeria, Jerome Pasquier, visited
By Our Correspondent The Akwa Ibom State Government has ended a week-long distribution of relief materials to victims of flood and fire disasters across the state. The Deputy Governor of Akwa Ibom, Mr. Moses Ekpo, urged residents last weekend while presenting materials last weekend to those living in riverine communities to ensure the safety of
By Ebi Perekeme The Bayelsa State Government has raised the alarm over increasing espionage activities in most communities in the state. It also said unconfirmed security reports indicated that there was a mass build up of arms in various forests by people with sinister plans, who come into the state under the pretext of carrying
The federal government may consider selling the Port Harcourt refinery after the planned rehabilitation which is put at the cost of $1.5 billion, Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Chief Timipre Sylva has revealed. Speaking on Sunday diring Channels Television programme ‘Politics Today’, the Minister who was responding to questions on why the federal government
By Ebi Perekeme Former Governor of Delta State, Dr. Emmanuel Eweta Uduaghan, has condoled with his former deputy, Prof. Amos Agbe Utuama over the demise of his wife, late Dr (Mrs) Tuwere Nelly Utuama. GbaramatuVoice reports Dr. (Mrs.) Utuama died after a brief illness at the age of 65 years. Dr. Uduaghan’s condolence message was
…warn oil firms to evacuate staff immediately By Our Correspondent Militants under the umbrella body of Unyekisong Akwa Ibom have asked all multinational oil companies operating in the state to vacate with immediate effect. A statement by the leader and deputy of the group, General Dede Udofia and Major Ibanga Ekang, respectively, said the vacation
By Ebi Perekeme It was a tale of tears and sorrow as a 73-year-old widow, Hannah Teacher, of Okerenkoko town in Gbaramatu kingdom, Warri South West Local Government Area of Delta State, on Friday, died from kerosene explosion. The incident, it was gathered, happened around 9pm on Thursday (March 19, 2021) in her building, throwing
By Ebi Perekeme The Bilabiri community in Ekeremor Local Government Area of Bayelsa State has called on the military Joint Task Force (JTF) to flush out criminals from the community. The community, in a letter dated March 21, appealed to the JTF deployed to protect oil facilities in the Niger Delta to deploy its surveillance
By Our Correspondent There Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA, has given reason for moving its multi million Floating Dockyard to the Continental Ship yard on Dockyard Road in Apapa, saying that the shipyard has all auxiliary engineering services provision to service the floating dock. Speaking to newsmen during a tour of the dock
By Our Correspondent The National Inland Waterways Authority (NIWA) has commenced the rehabilitation of Burutu port in Burutu Local Government Area of Delta State, as part of efforts to decongest the Lagos ports. The Managing Director of NIWA, Dr George Moghalu, made the disclosure while inspecting the ongoing reactivation work at the Burutu port. When
By Enaibo Asiayei Residents of Tebujor/Okpeleama Community in Gbaramatu kingdom, Warri South West Local Government Area of Delta state, has inaugurated a new executive council to direct affairs of the community in the next three years. Those sworn-in were, Mr. Terry Tortor, Chairman; Mr. Wilson Mala, Vice Chairman; Mr. Raphael Toju Erike, General Secretary. Others
By Our Correspondent Sole Administrator, Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP), Col. Milland Dixon Dikio (red) has tasked ex-agitators in the Niger Delta to be ready to learn the modalities of owning and running modular refineries. Dikio stated this at a summit with the theme “Integrating local artisanal modular refineries to Nigeria’s mainstream oil sector” held in
By Our Correspondent A Milan court yesterday acquitted energy companies, Eni and Royal Dutch Shell, along with some of their past and present managers, including Eni Chief Executive, Claudio Descalzi, in one of the oil industry’s biggest corruption scandals. The judgment read out in court by Judge Marco Tremolada, came more than three years after
By Our Correspondent The house of representatives has directed its committee on petroleum (upstream) to investigate an alleged failure of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) to address the challenges confronting the Warri refinery. The decision of the house followed a motion moved by Ben Igbakpa, lawmaker representing Ethiope federal constituency, during plenary session on
By Our Correspondent The Federal Government has approved the sum of $1.5bn for the rehabilitation of the Port Harcourt Refinery. The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Timipre Sylva, stated this while briefing newsmen at the end of the Federal Executive Council, FEC, meeting presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari at the Council Chamber, Presidential
…Senate Committee to investigate Niger Delta governors The Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) has claimed that it gave each of the governors of the nine oil-producing states N100million each as COVID-19 palliatives. Chairman, Senate Committee on Ethics Privileges and Public Petitions, Senator Patrick Ayo Akinyelure, told reporters in Abuja that NDDC officials made the claim.
