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 Enaibo Asiayei The President of the Ijaw Youth Council (IYC) worldwide, Eric Omare has called on the Federal Government and stakeholders to take drastic steps to protect the Niger Delta environment from continuous degradation by the activities of multinational oil companies and the local refiners in the region. The IYC leader made the call
By Emmanuel Serigbana Gunmen on Tuesday, May 14 2019, kidnapped five oil workers around the Oil Mining Lease (OML) -55. The company was said to be operated by Belemaoil Producing Limited, an indigenous oil company in Akuku-Toru Local Government Area of Rivers state. The oil workers were said to be personnel of Integrated Data Services Limited, IDSL and
By Loveth Ojogun The people of Sarabubowei Community of Gbaramatu Kingdom in Warri South West Local Government Area of Delta State might be plunged into crisis given failure of Ocean Marine Company under Pipeline Petroleum Marketing Company (PPMC) to incorporate Sarabubowei in the ongoing oil spill clean-up exercise in the area, representatives said. Comrade Frederick Igere and
By Emmanuel Serigbana Chairman, Rivers State Senior Secondary Schools Board (RSSSSB), Chief David Briggs has sent strong message to parents to take further measure in curbing cultism, drug addiction, and prostitution taking turns amongst adolescents in Rivers state, adding that it calls for urgent approach to rejuvenate moral values in the society. The RSSSSB boss
The Federal Government has said that communities that vandalise developmental projects will not have projects built in their communities again. President Muhammadu Buhari said this on Wednesday, May 16 2019, when he kicked-off and handed over a shoreline protection and land reclamation project in Ekeremo Local Government Area of Bayelsa. The president said that the
By Badmus Shina A Non Governmental Organisation, the Partner for Peace (P4P), an NGO set up for peace promotion and conflict resolution in the Niger Delta region, under the umbrella of PIND, on Tuesday, May 14 2019, inducted 40 persons from Gbokoda (Iteskiri) and Opuama (Ijaw) Communities in Delta state, to become peace initiators for
By Loveth Ojogun Special Adviser to former President Goodluck Jonathan on Niger Delta Affairs, Dr. Kingsley Kuku, has debunked reports that he was arrested in the United States of America recently. Kuku said the story was the handiwork of traducers, adding that his friends, well wishers, business and political associates should wave both the story
By Shina Badmus The Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, has initiated a study to kick-start work on a regional power pool and industrialisation project meant to drive the rapid development of the Niger Delta region using electricity as a catalyst. The NDDC Acting Managing Director, Prof Nelson Brambaifa, who stated this during a meeting with
By Enaibo Asiayei The Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, has reaffirmed its commitment to ensure the sustenance of projects executed by the Commission, in the Niger Delta region for the benefit of the people through a community-based management template. This was stated by the Acting Managing Director of the commission, Prof. Nelson Brambaifa, during a
…Sheriff calls for split of DESOPADEC By Loveth Ojogun The President of Ogulagha Kingdom Youth Council, Hon. Timiadi Justice Akuna has urged Chevron and government to avoid taking the peaceful nature of the Ogulagha, Egbema and Gbaramatu people for granted. Akuna said this recently in a statement in Warri, adding that the company and authorities
…Govt not helping matter By Loveth Ojogun A Niger Delta born environmentalist and peace advocate, Comrade Mulade Sheriff has shown apprehension over the fire outbreak at Opuekeba flow-station well head in Warri North Local Government Area of Delta State, and called on American oil giant, Chevron Nigeria Limited CNL, to act immediately to resolve the
…CNL and NNPC using NAPIMS to undo communities By Loveth Ojogun The people of Gbaramatu Kingdom in Warri South-West Local Government Area of Delta State have said that ignoring Gbaramatu oil and gas host communities (to Chevron Nigeria Limited) by Chevron in their present negotiations with their Ugborodo neighbours could triger problem if not nipped
By Asiayei Enaibo An Ijaw socio-political group, Kou-Iduwini-Gbaramatu- Egbema (KIGE), has endorsed Comrade Sheriff Mulade as Commissioner for Environment for Okowa’s second tenure. The leader of the group, Mr. Great Alulu made this known in Warri, an ancient town in Delta state recently, while on a courtesy visit to Mulade. It was gathered that Mulade
By Enaibo Asiayei A group known as Concerned Indigenes of Oporoza Community, CIOC, has said that the communal squabble they had with the incumbent executive of Oporoza community in Gbaramatu Kingdom of Delta state, led by Mr. Johnbull Demebi, has been resolved. In a press release made available to GbaramatuVoice and signed by Comr. Owei Amami (Coordinator),
Delta House of Assembly passed the Warri/Uvwie and Environs Special Area Development Agency Bill on Thursday in Asaba during its plenary. The Bill provides a law for the establishment of Warri/Uvwie and Environs Special Area Development Agency, its administrative structure, functions and powers of the board and other matter connected therewith. The passage of the
-DEMAND THEIR GUNS BE RETURNED By Brakere Birinimighan Ex-militants from the coastal area of Ondo state have threatened to seize peace and order in the area over supposedly failure by the State and Federal Governments to keep to their side of promise made to them if they surrender their guns on Nov. 27 2017, for
By Shina Badmus The refugee camp in Ogoja Local Government Area of Cross River State which was initially established for four thousand refugees, have been overflooded with no fewer than ten thousand refugees with most of them from Cameroon. GbaramatuVoice gathered that members of a socio-cultural organisation, National Association of Sea Dogs that visited the camp
By Brakere Birinimighan Chevron Nigeria Limited (CNL), operator of the joint venture between the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and CNL (NNPC/CNL JV), has stated that the allegation leveled against the company by some members of Ugborodo community in its Escravos operations that the community was neglected in the provision of social amenities, employment and
By Brakere Birinimighan Operators of OML 29 and the Nembe Creek Trunk Line, NCTL, Nigeria’s Aiteo said on Friday, May 3, 2019, that it has in no doubt finished emergency repairs on the strategic pipeline. The company assured oil companies transporting crude via the pipeline that they have nothing to fear and should go ahead
By Loveth Ojogun The Headmistress of Kunpa Primary School, Ubafan, Gbaramatu Kingdom, Warri South West Local Government Area, Delta State, Mrs Egodo Sandra has cried out that teachers in Gbaramatu are teaching in un-conducive environment. Sandra who made the statement on Wednesday May 1, while receiving stationery and other learning materials from the National Association of
A former Nigerian head of State, General Yakubu Gowon has slumped at the occasion marking the funeral of late Major General David Akpodiete Ejoor in Ovwor-Olomu Community, Ughelli South Local Government Area of Delta State. GbaramatuVoice can report that Gowon slumped near the grave side of the deceased, while the funeral oration was ongoing. According
By Daniel Domotimi Bayelsa State has witnessed the presence of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) for farmers affected by the 2018 flood in the State. While considering distributing seedlings to the affected farmers, the Agency’s Team Leader in the state, Mr Eric Ebhodaghe told our correspondent in Yenagoa on Wednesday, May 1, that over
The Traditional Ruler of Ele Kingdom in Ogu/Bolo Local Government Area of Rivers State, King Felix Tamunoseipirila Okuru VII, has thrown his weight behind the re-election of Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State, describing it as a victory for people of the state and democracy. While speaking with GbaramatuVoice in Port Harcourt, the capital of the state,
By Enaibo Asiayei The country home of ex-Governor James Ibori of Delta State, Oghara, has been thrown in pandamonium as a headless body of a woman was found yesterday. Eye witnesses told GbaramatuVoice that the shocking discovery was made early hours of yesterday, May 2, 2019. The woman who was said to be in her late 50s,
By Loveth Ojogun Journalists across the world have been urged to take the occasion of the 2019 World Press Freedom Day to practice journalism without bias. Comrade Mulade Sheriff who is a Niger Delta born human rights activist cum environmentalist made this call in Warri, an ancient town in Delta state. As a United Nations
By Enaibo Asiayei The residents of Polobubo (Tsekelewu) in Warri North council area of Delta state have cried out of the racing fire at oil terminal in their area. Polobubo residents which is an Ijaw community said the fire has posed a threat to their lives and environment. They have made this danger known in a
By Brakere Birinimighan A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Bayelsa State who happens to be one of the founding fathers of the state, Hon. Ofoni Williams has described Governor Henry Seriake Dickson as suffering from election fever. Ofoni made this declaration on Tuesday, April 30, in Yenegoa, following Dickson’s rejection to give
By Brakere Birinimighan Over five oil wells have exploded at Ajegunle Ikorigho, oil- rich community in Ondo State. The oil field which was located in Ikorigho land has Ojumole-Ikorigho, Isan-West and Isan field, Parable field, Malu field, Ororo and Opokaba oil fields, was named ‘Ojumole’. Otumara, Ikorigho, Ajegunle-Ikorigho, Zion Ikorigho, Iluayo, Kendo Ayeren and Ehinmoghan-Ikorigho,
By Brakere Biriniminighan As part of the projects lined up in her office, Her Majesty, Queen Helma Akinyomi, who is the Face of Gbaramatu Int’l 2019, took a tour of the Niger Delta and was devastated by the level of oil pollution in the area caused by multinational oil companies operating in the area. She
By Shina Badmus The Okerenkoko community executive in Gbaramatu Kingdom, Warri South West Local Government Area of Delta State, has empowered 24 women with the sum of N100,000, each. The empowerment programme which took place on Saturday, April 13, at the community hall, was designed to provide entrepreneurial capacity development training, skill acquisition and seed
By Shina Badmus The Esther Matthew Tonlagha Foundation (EMTF), has elicited the 48th birthday celebration of High Chief Government Ekpemupolo, popularly called Tompolo during the Easter. The birthday which took place on April 12, saw Engr. and Mrs Esther Tonlagha, giving out hundreds of thousands of gifts to people in Oporoza Community, headquarters of Gbaramatu
By Daniel Domotimi Bayelsa State Governor, Seriake Dickson has given Bayelsans a shocking revelation that the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), who will emerge as his successor, would be chosen through concentrated prayers and consultations. The governor disclosed this on Saturday, April 20 2019, night at the monthly Praise Night and the
No fewer than two people have been reportedly killed following two fresh oil spills that occurred in Kegbara-Dere community, in Gokana Local Government Area of Rivers State, over the weekend. GbaramatuVoice can confidently report that the spills were from oil resource owned by the Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) in B-Dere and Kpor communities of the
In 1884, the Berlin Conference led to the ramshackle of the continent of Africa into spheres by the European Imperialists which culminated to the forceful emancipation of the Niger Delta region into the present day social colonial Nigeria state in 1914. Niger Delta people were before the emancipation, a people with different cultures and customs.
By Enaibo Asiayei The Bayelsa Elders Consultative Council (BECC) has commended President Muhammadu Buhari on the appointment of Professor Nelson Brambaifa as the Acting Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC. The Group also congratulated President Buhari on his electoral victory and called on him to confirm the professor of pharmacology for a
