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.
Following protest from some persons, that the executives of EGCDF awarded contracts worth billions of naira for themselves and children, the Executive Chairman of Egbema and Gbaramatu Communities Development Foundation, Ambassador Jude Ebitimi Ukori has stated that the awarded contracts followed due process in line with the EGCDF’s guidelines. In a statement signed to correct
By Enaibo Asiayei The Egbema Gbaramatu Communities Development Foundation, EGCDF, sponsored by Chevron Nigeria Limited in Warri South West and Warri North Local Government Areas, Delta State, has awarded projects worth N643, 608,485.22 million to contractors in the area, charging the contractors to complete the projects in record time. The projects included construction of bungalows,
A thick cloud of black smoke has hovered over the oil rich Gbaramatu kingdom, since on Monday morning, causing soot to pile up on every surface. Oporoza community, headquarters of Gbaramatu kingdom looking black and polluted. See Photos below..
By Joshua Williams In a presentation in Abuja, at a webinar titled: ‘Nigerian Oil Spill Detection and Response Agency, NOSDRA, Amendment Bill: Reducing environmental degradation through improved oil spill response,’ the NNRC also disclosed that the Niger Delta region is currently suffering from poor response to oil spill. Program Coordinator of the NNRC, Ms Tengi
—CEPEJ gives awards to stakeholders The Aladja/ Ogbe-Ijoh Peace building novelty football match played today (Sunday) at Aladja in Udu Local Government Area ended in a barren draw with no victor, no vanquish. Also, the Center for peace and environmental justice (CEPEJ) gave awards to stakeholders in both players as well as other stakeholders in
By Ebi Perekeme The staff of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, under the umbrella of the Joint Consultative Forum of The Amalgamated Union of Public Corporations, Civil Service Technical and Recreational Services Employees, AUPCTRE, have appealed to the Presidency to restrain security agencies from harassing workers of the interventionist agency. In a joint statement
Some stakeholders in the Niger Delta region on Friday discussed the spate of abandoned and uncompleted projects in the Niger Delta region by the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) calling for completion of the projects. The discussion was held during a Radio Town Hall meeting organised by the Progressive Impact Organization for Community Development (PRIMORG).
Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon Femi Gbajabiamila, thursday cautioned against playing the blame game in the ongoing efforts by the President Muhammadu Buhari administration to tackle the challenges besetting the Niger Delta region. Gbajabiamila noted that while various stakeholders had unwittingly contributed to the region’s challenges in terms of policies and politics, there
…. also hands over surgical theatre/consulting Rooms Chevron Nigeria Limited, CNL, operator of the joint venture between the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, NNPC/CNL JV, has donated a Polymerase Chain Reaction, PCR, laboratory to Warri Central Hospital to support the Delta State government in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. It also donated test kits,
Gov. Nyesom Wike of Rivers has been selected “Man of the Year 2020 Award by GbaramatuVoice, a multi-media organisation in the Niger Delta, for his efforts toward the development of the region. Mr Jacob Abai, the Publisher of GbaramatuVoice, disclosed this in a statement in Lagos on Wednesday. Abai said that Wike’s emergence was as
By Loveth Ojogun A group known as Ijaw Equity Group has demanded for the immediate resignation or removal of the Delta State Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Barr. Kingsley Esiso. The group alleged that he has betrayed the parry’s trust over his recent comments on zoning of the governorship position in Delta State
By Ebi Perekeme The Ijaws of Ese Odo council area of Ondo State have disowned their son, the deputy governor of the state, Hon Agboola Ajayi for betraying the state governor, Rotimi Akeredolu. Recall that Ajayi dumped the governor party and defected to the Zenith Labour Party to contest the October governorship election with Akeredolu.
By Enaibo Asiayei The Deputy Governor of Delta state, Barr. Kingsley Burutu Otuaro, yesterday paid a condolence visit to Niger Delta award winning poet, Ekanpou Enewaridideke over the demise of his mother, Mrs Timiebi Maika Ekanpou, who died on Sunday August 30, after a brief illness at the age of 78. According to report by
The Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, on Tuesday emerged the GbaramatuVoice ‘Niger Delta Man of the Year’ for 2020 through an independent poll. Details shortly…
Chevron Nigeria Limited has sent in its Goodwill Message for the 5th Anniversary Lecture and Award Ceremonies of the GbaramatuVoice Media, holding in Port Harcourt on September 29-30, 2020. A press release personally signed by the General Manager, Policy, Government and Public Affairs of the Chevron, Esimaje Brikinn said on Sep. 7 in Warri that
Ahead of GbaramatuVoice 5th Anniversary Lecture and Award Ceremonies scheduled to take place on the 30th of September 2020, Chevron Nigeria Limited has congratulated the company on its stride and relentless effort in reaching out to the Niger Delta region with qualitative and educative information. Chevron Nigeria Limited (CNL), is the operator of the joint
Ijaw leaders have decried hard times and worsening conditions despite various interventions and existence of key associations claiming to champion their agitations. The leaders, who met in Port Harcourt under the auspices of Movement for the Survival of Izon Ethnic Nationality in the Niger Delta (MOSIEND), said they were worse of, because major pressure groups
Ahead of the Niger Delta leading and most trusted Newspapers, GbaramatuVoice’s 5th Anniversary, Lectures/Awards, the media outfit Publisher/CEO, Jacob Abai and his team paid a courtesy visit to the Executive Governor of Bayelsa State, His Excellency, Senator Douye Diri. The meeting which took place at the State House, Yenagoa, was inline with preparation for the
By Loveth Ojogun The Delta State Executive Council (Exco) has approved the sum of N4 billion for the construction of Ogheye Ultra Modern Concrete Floating Market project. Commissioner for Information in the state, Mr Charles Aniagwu made the disclosure in a post-Exco press briefing in Asaba on Wednesday. According to him, the market is huge
By Ebi Perekeme Construction work has commenced on the $50m (N18.95bn) Transportation University being constructed by the Chinese government for Nigeria in Daura, Katsina State. The Minister of Transportation, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, who inspected the project on Saturday, said the target was to complete the university in September 2021. China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation is
By Loveth Ojogun The remains of Madam Comfort Titi Eyengho nee Okotie-Eboh, mother of the Tieyemiewei of Gbaramatu kingdom, Chief Samuel Eyengho, who passed away at the age of 103 years, will be interred on Saturday, Sep. 12, in Ode-Itsekiri (Big Warri), Delta State. A statement signed today by the son, on behalf of the
By Loveth Ojogun Chief Joseph Uduboh, the elder brother of the CEO of KFT Conglomerate, Chief Komieyefa Uduboh, has tied the knot with his woman at a talk of the town marriage ceremony in Warri, Delta State, GbaramatuVoice reports. The groom is a chief of Tubutoru kingdom, who married his inestimable partner, Peace Torke from
Four of the five senatorial aspirants from the Bayelsa Central have been disqualified by the National Screening Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the October 31 bye-elections in the state. The affected aspirants are a former Speaker and current Majority Leader of the state House of Assembly, Monday-Bubou Obolo; former Secretary to the
…Says its Delta’s turn to produce coordinator By Joshua Williams Egbema Peace and Security Group, EPSG, has rejected the appointment of Milland Dikio as the interim coordinator of amnesty programme by President Muhammadu Buhari. The EPSG while noting that are not against the President removal of the coordinator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme, Charles Quaker
The President Muhammadu Buhari, has sacked Prof Charles Dokubo as the Coordinator, Amnesty Programme. He has also approved the appointment of Col. Milland Dikio (retd.), as the interim administrator of the programme. The President’s Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, announced this in a statement made available to journalists on Thursday. The
The Nigeria Hydrological Services Agency (NIHSA) has asked states to prepare for flood in communities bordering the River Niger to prevent loss of lives and property. This is contained in a statement signed by Clement Nze, NIHSA director-general, on Tuesday. Nze identified states likely to be affected as Kebbi, Kogi, Rivers, Niger, Kwara, Nasarawa, Kogi,
The Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP) in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria is the most expensive amnesty programme in the world, gulping N243 billion ($1.68 billion) in five years. A report on the Assessment of the PAP by the Nextier Security, Peace and Development (SPD), unveiled in Abuja on Tuesday, revealed that funds were used
By Ebi Perekeme A Niger Delta group, Ndoshimili indigenous People of Ndokwa East (NIPONE), has given the Federal Government up to October 30,2020 to address the alleged perennial neglect of its area. During a press brief yesterday at Aboh, headquarters of NdokwaNdokwa East council area of Delta State, the group threatened self-determination and control of
By Joshua Williams The reconciliatory efforts of the Governor Mai Mala Buni led Caretaker/Extra-Ordinary National Convention Planning Committee (CENCPC) of the ruling All Progressives Congress ( APC) on Monday saw Minister of Transport, Rotimi Ameachi and his counterpart Minister of State, Petroleum, Timipre Sylva agreeing to work together to reposition the party in the South-South
By Enaibo Asiayei Bayelsa State Governor, Senator Douye Diri, has directed all civil servants from grade levels 1-12 to resume work from Tuesday, September 1. Senator Diri gave the directive on Monday during a meeting with the state’s COVID-19 Taskforce in Yenagoa. The state government had on March 26 asked those categories of workers to
By Blessing Johnson Delta State Traditional Rulers Council has disclosed plans to sanction self-imposed traditional rulers in the state. They also suggested to the Delta State Government and security agencies to fashion out penalties for the infraction to check the menace for security reasons. The Traditional Rulers fear that the actions of these self-imposed kings
By Loveth Ojogun The National Association of Gbaramatu Students (NAGS) is set to hold its 5th national election cum convention. In a statement jointly signed by the Convention Planning Committee Chairman, Barr. Friday Emotimide and President of NAGS, Comrade Freeborn Abraye, the convention was billed to hold at the Okerenkoko Community Townhall, Okerenkoko, Gbaramatu kingdom,
The Ondo State Independent Electoral Commission has declared the All Progressives Congress (APC) winner of all the 18 chairmanship position in the Saturday’s local government election in the state The commission’s chairman, Yomi Dinakin, made the announcement o Sunday evening. According to him, the party also won 194 councilorship seats out of 198, while the
By Loveth Ojogun As the date of Delta State Local Government election draws near, youths from Egbema Kingdom in the Warri North Local Government Area of Delta State have threatened to resist any further socio-political and economic marginalisation in their community. The youths also petitioned Governor Ifeanyi Okowa over what they tagged “the endless marginalisation
…Demand completion of East-West Road Niger Delta militants, under the auspices of Joint Revolutionary Council, JRC, a merger of militant groups, Monday morning, threw their weight behind Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Senator Godswill Akpabio, saying findings by them showed the National Assembly was after him because he refused lawmakers from continuing their plundering of
