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.
Former minister of aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode, has given reasons why Rivers State needs to change the name of their capital city from Port Harcourt. The Rivers State capital was named after a British man named Lord Lewis Vernon Harcourt, FFK said. According to him, the man was a paedophile who doesn’t deserve to have a
The Federal Government has ordered the suspension of any employment exercise in the Niger Delta Development Commission with immediate effect. The Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Senator Godswill Akpabio who issued the order, also directed the suspension of handing over of appointment letters, documentation and all other processes connected to employment into the NDDC. A
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has arraigned a former Special Adviser on Niger Delta Matters to President Muhammadu Buhari for alleged fraud to the tune of N974 million and diversion of $1.9 million. The defendant, Brig. Gen Paul Boroh (rtd.), was arraigned alongside Hanafi Moriki before Justice O. O. Goodluck of the FCT High
By Sandra Orokodo The people of Ughelli, on Saturday, went into frenzy, as the honourable member representing Ughelli North, Ughelli South, and Udu Federal Constituency, Rt. Hon (Rev.) Francis Ejiroghene Waive, opened his Constituency Office, three months after his election. A press release on September 9, by SSA, New Media, Joan Imiruaye said the office is located
President Muhammadu Buhari says the recent redeployment of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) to the Ministry of Niger Delta Affairs is meant to enhance quality of life of people of the region. The NDDC prior to the redeployment was being supervised by the Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation. The
There was panic and gunshots in Bayelsa House of Assembly on Monday as speaker leaves with mace. Details shortly
The Group Managing Director (GMD) of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Mallam Mele Kyari, at the weekend disclosed that Nigeria lost an equivalent of $1.7 billion within two years of temporary shutdown of oil and gas production from Oil Mining Lease (OML) 25 following a disagreement between the communities and Shell Petroleum Development Company
By Ebi Perekeme The President of Ijaw Youth Council (IYC), worldwide, Pereotubo Oweilaemi, Esq., has accused the Nigerian authorities that they want to end the Presidential Amnesty Programme. Barr Oweilaemi made this known in Warri, Delta state on September 28 2019. In a press release he personally signed and made available to GbaramatuVoice, the IYC
By Kareen Zachaeus, Mercy Karewei & Eunice Teide Electricity and man power to carryout necessary jobs is a major problem in Warri Central Hospital, Delta State. The Hospital is a large medical center which comprises of different wards and units. These include children ward, maternity ward, labour ward, eye clinic ward, antenatal and so on.
A Federal High Court in Yenagoa on Thursday summoned Prof. Charles Dokubo, Coordinator, Presidential Amnesty over alleged diversion of stipends mearnt for 75 former militants. Also summoned to appear before Justice Awogboro Abimbola on Oct. 4, are Mr Isaac Ityohuma and Mr Aroloye Brown, Director of Finance and Accounts and Head of Reintegration in the
By Aloro Goodluck The Center for Peace and Environmental Justice, CEPEJ on Tuesday, Sep. 24, engaged in an enlightenment programme in Effurun, Uvwie Local Government Area of Delta State. This was part of CEPEJ’s activities marking the International Day of Peace; the programme brought together people from different walks of life. They included students, youths
Unscrupulous people, described as crude oil thieves have set fire on an oil pipeline, belonging to Italian oil giant Agip at Ubeta community in the Ahoada West Local Government Area of Rivers. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the field is operated by Nigeria Agip Oil Company, a subsidiary of Italy’s Eni. Ubeta
By Shina Badmus A Nigeria based Non Governmental Organisation, Centre for Peace and Environmental Justice (CEPEJ) on Friday, September 20, had another impressive show in Lagos where the NGO commemorated the annual International Day of Peace in collaboration with the United Nations Information Centre, UNIC, and Lagos State Ministry of Environment. The peace event drew
—Also talk of employment and empowerment – King Timiyan By Loveth Ojogun The Managing Director, Delta State Oil Producing Area Development Commission, DESOPADEC, Chief Askia Ogieh, has said the commission decided to embark on town hall meetings with oil-producing ethnic groups in the state in a bid to ensure that the people own projects established
By Shina Badmus The Partnership Initiative in the Niger Delta, PIND Foundation, on Friday September 20, 2019, organized a sensitization meeting for the Ijaw and Itsekiri ethnic groupings in Koko, Warri North Local Government Area of Delta State. The meeting was aimed at proposing a permanent solution for a peaceful coexistence between the two communities.
Deputy Governor of Delta State, Deacon Kingsley Otuaro has reiterated the state’s stance to continue to partner with security agencies and critical stakeholders to put an end to oil bunkering and other unpatriotic actions disadvantageous to the economy of the country. He, however, turned up his nose at the activities of some security agencies, which
By LOveth Ojogun The Chairman/Managing Director, Chevron Nigeria Limited (CNL), Jeff Ewing, chaired the 2019 edition of the PRSG-Richardson Health, Safety, Security and the Environment (HSSE) Forum at the Eko Hotel and Suites, Victoria Island, Lagos. In a press release made available to GbaramatuVoice, theGeneral Manager, Policy Government and Public Affairs, Esimaje Brikinn at the programme on
By Enaibo Asiayei The traditional ruler of Ogulagha Kingdom, His Royal Majesty, Elder Capt. Joseph Timiyan has appealed to the new board of Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission (DESOPADEC) not to disappoint the Governor of Delta state in the discharge of their responsibilities in their new offices. Timiyan expressed his gratitude to the governor
By Shina Badmus It is important for people to become aware of the dangers of violence to their communities.The Warri Multi Stakeholders’ Platform (MSP) will be convening three town hall meetings to promote peaceful coexistence and tolerance between Ijaw and Itsekiri ethnic groups. The town hall meetings were part of the peace-building sensitization initiatives of
By Esther Poweide The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation with its joint venture partners, Shell Production Development Company and Belema OIL, has resolved the dispute on the operation of Oil Mining Lease (OML) 25. According to a report by News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, the feuding group at the signing of the dispute closure agreement in Abuja, on
By Shina Badmus The Delta State Government said it had mobilized to site for rehabilitation of the failed portions on the Benin-Sapele Road and Asaba-Onitsha highway on the Asaba side of River Niger Bridge within the state. The state governor, Senator Ifeanyi Okowa, represented by his deputy, Deacon Kingsley Otuaro, disclosed this on Sep 15,
By Enaibo Asiayei Member Representing Warri South West in the Delta State House of Assembly, Hon Emomotimi Guwor, has commended the people of Isaba in Warri South West and Aladja in Udu local government areas for embracing the peace initiative of the state government. Reacting to the weekend peace pact signed by the two communities
By Ebi Perekeme The Ogbia Youth Leaders Forum, OYLF, has expressed displeasure over alleged humiliation of former President Goodluck Jonathan by the Bayelsa State Government, during the gubernatorial primaries of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the state. OYLF also came hard on the PDP and its biggest rival in the coming elections, the All
"The elections have come and gone, this government has settled down for the business of governance, I want to assure you that we are committed to the enthronement of a prosperous Delta State: A Delta state where peace, rapid progress, increase growth in infrastructural facilities, love for one another, is our vision"
By Ebi Perekeme Ambassador Godknows Boladei Igali has conveyed congratulations to one of Nigeria’s most outstanding journalists, political strategists and businessmen, Elder Zee Debekeme as he turned 72 years on Sunday, 15th September, 2019. In a congratulatory message made available to GbaramatuVoice, the Ace diplomat and national icon Igali, who was a leading figure in
Ex–Niger Delta militants and agitators have expressed readiness to storm South Africa to retaliate the killings of Nigerians and protect those that are trapped and stranded. This was revealed by a “Commandant General Riverine Security”, Bibi Oduku, in a press statement issued on Monday, Sept 16, in Abuja. Oduku said that more than two thousand
By Enaibo Asiayei Egbema Peace and Security Group, EPSG, has condemned statement credited to the Reformed Niger Delta Avengers, RNDA, threatening to destroy oil installations across the region if Chief Dennis Otuaro emerges as the new coordinator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme. The group described the move as a calculated attempt geared towards ruining the
By Ebi Perekeme The Ezenobi Training Centre has said that it does not take things for granted but for gratitude. This was contained in a press release by the centre through Madam Enetimi Evah Bunuzigha in Lagos recently. Bunuzigha said that she has not seen anything like Thank You just as gratitude does wonder. Hence,
By Asiayei Enaibo Ijaws are predominant in the Niger Delta, with Bayelsa state as their core state. But this fourth largest ethnic groupings in Nigeria can also boasts of ancestral villages and towns in some parts of the country not minding the over decades of attitudinal political oppression, subjugation and marginalization they have come to endure.
By Shina Badmus It’s a not good time for residents of Warri in Delta state following untold flooding that sent residents packing on September 6, 2019. Many residents were hapless; those who could not pack their properties from their different abodes, were seen scooping water out of their homes. Some analysts said that the destructive
– Chairmanship aspirant in Gbaramatu promises qualitative leadership By Loveth Ojogun Some former militants, under the auspices of Leadership, Peace and Cultural Development Initiative, on Friday, September 6, distanced themselves from a petition accusing Minister of State, Petroleum, Chief Timipre Sylva, of plotting to remove the presidential adviser on amnesty, Prof Charles Dokubo. The ex-militants
Ijaw youths on Monday told the Bayelsa State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) that they would resist the attempt to make someone from the Urhobo ethnic group a Deputy Governor in Bayelsa, the only Ijaw homogeneous state. The youths, who rose from their meeting in Warri, Delta State, vowed to mobilise people to
By Enaibo Asiayei An election tribunal sitting in Asaba, Delta State, has nullified the election of James Manager, senator representing Delta South. The tribunal ordered a fresh election to be conducted in the senatorial district. Details shortly……
Floods have taken over parts of Warri following an early morning heavy rainfall in the nation’s oil city, immobilizing movement in the city and causing residents to suffer immensely. Some of the major areas affected include the popular Airport road, Okumagba, Giwamu, Udu, Refinery road, were all water logged. See photos below .
By Loveth Ojogun The Federal government is set to collaborate with Greece on the training of Niger Delta youths and others in shipbuilding, fishing, food sufficiency and employment generation. The Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Senator Godswill Akpabio, said this when the representative of the Greece government in Nigeria, Concept Amadeus Limited, paid a working visit
