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 Reuben Abati The Petroleum Act 1969 (as amended) grants powers to the Ministry of Petroleum, acting through the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) to administer the licensing of oil blocks in the country. These include Oil Prospecting Licence (OPL), Oil Mining Licence (OML) and Oil Exploration Licence (OEL), which allow the awardees, local and
The travails of Sen. Dino Melaye don’t surprise anyone. As a matter of fact, it was always a question of when and how. Asides being a staunch critic of President Buhari, he also picked up a fight with a man who has said he will jump into fire if President Buhari asks him to; Governor
An African adage has it that, from the way the chimpanzee walks, you will discover without much labour, that, it’s not a happy creature. In like manner, the current posturing of the nation, following a four years waiting for the promised ‘change’ and excruciating poverty that followed, one may afterwards not need a prophecy to situate that, like
For the 2030 sustainable agenda to succeed, says the United Nations, partnership and collaboration must be given a disciplined attention. This world body further stated that the scale and ambition of this agenda calls for smart partnerships, collaborations, ecosystem thinking, co-creation and alignment of various intervention efforts by the public and private sectors and civil society. While
The recent appointment by President Muhammadu Buhari of Professor Charles Quaker-Dokubo as the new Special Adviser to the President on Niger Delta Affairs and Co-ordinator of the Presidential Niger Delta Amnesty Programme (NDAP) qualifies as a dispensation with significant promise to change the Niger Delta story for the better. Coming to drive the programme from
Over the years variegated theories have been created and bandied about Pele the rare prodigy of erudition, Pele the hysterical lover of PELECENTRIC image-mangling narratives on prominent sons and daughters of Ijaw – theories ideated to give believable verdict on the anatomy of this young man who serially sees himself as a loose cannon deliriously
Sailing through the rugged waters of the Niger Delta, one would wonder if anything good can ever come out of these waters. The riverine Niger Delta is dominated by the various Ijaw communities and Kingdoms whose prominent occupations are farming and fishing, with no visible development around them. One would rightly wonder how they have been
The Itsekiri Survival Movement (ITSURMOV) in their various internet press releases claimed to own Warri sans the provision of any substantive proof. These sporadic, but subtle claims embedded in the body of their messages and the constant footnote reminders of ownership of Warri, that accompany each of their publication, are in our opinion, a shrewd
In Soyinka, the man has died. Soyinka is 'dead'! And I mourn him.
