Ex-militants under the Phase III of the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP) in Delta State have demanded for their guns and other weapons which they surrendered to the Federal Government in 2011. The ex-militants are making the demand as a result of alleged failure of the FG to fulfill it’s own part of the bargain for

A former Commissioner for Finance and Economic Planning in Delta State, Olorogun Kenneth Okpara, who recently joined the 2023 governorship race is dead. Confirming the incident was the Chairman of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Delta State Council, Comrade Michael Ikeogwu on his Facebook page stating that “one of the Governorship aspirants for the

By Ebi Perekeme  The Ijaw Diaspora Council (IDC), has demanded immediate relief to communities impacted by the current oil and gas leaks from the Aiteo Eastern Exploration and Production Company – operated oilfield at Nembe in Bayelsa. The demand is contained in a letter, dated November 15 and signed by Prof Monday Gold, President, Dr

By Emmanuella Soroghaye Train services across the country have been shut down as the three-day warning strike embarked on by railway workers nationwide begins. The warning strike by workers of the Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) is to hold from November 18th to November 20th. The workers’ unions had declared the strike to demand increased wages

By Ebi Perekeme Leaders of the Niger Delta, on Wednesday, staged a peaceful protest in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, against what they termed the maltreatment of the region in the scheme of things by the Federal Government. The leaders under the auspices of Presidents-General of Niger Delta Ethnic Nationalities (CPG-NDEN) took their protest march to the

By Emmanuella Soroghaye  The House of Representatives has passed a bill seeking to create a South-South Development Commission. The House had, earlier on Tuesday, considered and adopted the report by the Committee on Justice on the bill. The legislation is titled: “A Bill for an Act to Establish South-South Development Commission charged with Responsibility to

By Daniel Kokoricha Former Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives (APC), Comrade Timi Frank, on Wednesday called for the immediate resignation and trial of the President, Major-General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd.) for ordering the deployment of Army personnel that attacked, injured and killed scores of youths during the EndSARS protest near the Lekki Toll

The Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP) says 3,000 entrepreneurs from Niger Delta will benefit from the Nigeria Incentive-Based Risk Sharing System for Agricultural Lending (NIRSAL) loans. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reported that PAP had started training programmes to prepare Niger Delta youths, including ex-agitators for loans offered by the Central Bank of Nigeria-backed NIRSAL scheme. PAP

The Delta State Governor, Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa, has bagged a national award as the best Governor for Peace and Conflict Resolution, while his Borno State counterpart, Prof. Zulum Babagana Umaru, got his award as All Round Best Governor in Nigeria. At the same event which took place at the International Conference Centre, Abuja, the FCT,

No fewer than 70 signatories, including representatives of ethnic nationalities and pan Niger Delta groups, are expected to sign the proposed Niger Delta Peoples Charter. President of the Niger Delta Congress, Nubari Sataah, disclosed this in a statement made available to newsmen in Warri, shortly after the second imprimatur was done on Monday. According to

Sani Dangote, the vice president of the Dangote Group and brother to Aliko Dangote, is dead. Mr. Dangote died in the United States Sunday after a protracted illness. Relatively less popular than his billionaire brother, Mr Dangote had investments in manufacturing, agriculture, banking and oil services. He sat on the boards of several companies including Dangote Cement,

By Ebi Perekeme  The Ijaw Youth Congress, IYC, Abuja/Northern Nigeria Chapter, has marked one year since the inauguration of the present executives at the Old Chelsea Hotel, CBD, Abuja, on 14 November, 2021. GbaramatuVoice reports.  The event which had all the members of the council in attendance such as the chairman – Chief Diplomat Adam

The Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF), the leading philanthropy empowering African entrepreneurs from all 54 African countries, has selected 4,949 entrepreneurs from across Africa for its 2021 Entrepreneurship Programme. The 2021 beneficiaries were selected from a pool of over 400,000 applications, based on their innovation, performance, and growth potential to create jobs and eradicate poverty on

…Say PAP office was not created for politicians, their wives and girlfriends  A coalition of the third phase of ex-Niger Delta agitators numbering about 200, have called on the Federal Government to listen to their demands in the interest of justice. They made the demand while protesting in Abuja against the refusal of the Presidential

The Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Senator Godswill Akpabio, has described as untrue the report in some sections of the media that he buck passed on his responsibility for the constitution of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC). The minister, in a statement he personally signed, attributed the report to those he described as falsehood

By Ebi Perekeme An Ijaw group – the Ijaw Diaspora Council, IDC, with global headquarters in Newark, NJ, has called on the international community’s conscience and the Nigerian government to act immediately on the still-gushing oil and gas explosion in the waterways and mangrove forests of the Nembe area of Ijaw land, Nigeria before the

The Coalition of Rivers Oil and Gas host communities has vowed to resist alleged moves by the Senate to amend the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) Act to include Lagos, Bauchi and Ogun States to the commission. The group said any attempt to shortchange the people of the Niger Delta Region would be vehemently opposed.

Senators from the South-South geo-political zone have kicked against moves by the Senate to include Lagos, Ogun, Bauchi and others that have attained the status of oil producing states into Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC. The senators raised the objection, yesterday, during the consideration of a Bill for an Act to amend the NDDC Act

Amnesty International (AI) Nigeria, on Wednesday, remembered the late writer and human rights activist – Ken Saro-Wiwa, Barinem Kiobel and seven others. Collectively known as Ogoni Nine, the then military government of the late General Sani Abacha executed them. Saro-Wiwa, Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP) co-founder, fought the government over environmental

The Executive Governor of Kogi State, Alhaji Yahaya Bello, on Wednesday, received the Publisher/CEO and editorial board chairman of the GbaramatuVoice Media Group at the governor’s lodge in Abuja. The GbaramatuVoice management led by Jacob Abai, Publisher/CEO and Prof. Tosan Harriman, Chairman, Editorial Board paid a courtesy visit on the governor ahead of the planned

The Amendment of a bill to include Kogi, Lagos, Anambra, Gombe and others among the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) scaled second reading at the Senate on Wednesday. The bill titled: “A bill for an Act to amend the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Act No 6, 2000 and for other related matters connected therewith,

The strike embarked upon,Tuesday, by academic and non-academic staff of the Nigeria Maritime University, Okerenkoko in Gbaramatu kingdom, Warri South West Local Government Area of Delta State took a new twist on Wednesday as the infuriated staff incapacitated the management boat as well as shut the school power plant. GbaramatuVoice had reported the indefinite strike,

Many people are feared killed and properties burnt down in fresh attacks on communities in Batsari Local Government Area of Katsina State. The attack, which reportedly began Tuesday evening and lasted into the early hours of Wednesday, saw dozens of houses including government structures and vehicles set ablaze. Witnesses said no fewer than five communities

By Emmanuella Soroghaye  Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the outlawed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), will spend Christmas in the custody of the Department of State Services (DSS). Kanu has been in DSS custody since his re-arrest in July. When he was rearraigned on Wednesday, Kanu complained that some members of his legal team were

The President of the Nigeria – Muhammadu Buhari, speaking at the opening plenary of the COP-26 climate change summit in Glasgow, Scotland, said Africa is being cheated, oppressed and lied to by rich nations. He said this is despite the continent almost being non-emitters, stressing that it is responsible for a mere five per cent

Engenni youths from Engenni kingdom in Ahoada West Local Government Area of Rivers State, have commended the Interim Administrator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP), Colonel Milland Dikio, for his pragmatic and all-inclusive style of leadership. Comrade Paul Edum, information officer of the Abua-Odual/Engenni-Ogbogolo Special Chapter of the Ijaw Youth Council (IYC), in a chat

We’ll protest this sacrilege – Traditionalists The Oluwo of Iwo, Oba Abdulrosheed Akanbi and Traditional Religion Worshippers Association, TRAWSO, yesterday, traded tackles over sacrilege against Yoruba deities. The Oluwo insisted that celebrating deities belittled traditional rulers, saying only God is worthy of worship by monarchs. But the traditional religion adherents in the state threatened to

By Emmanuella Soroghaye  The Senate on Tuesday approved the conference committee report on the Electoral Act Amendment Bill. The report was approved after the Senate Leader, Yahaya Abdullahi, moved a motion on Tuesday. The Senate and House of Representatives had in July passed different versions of the bill. While the Senate proposed either direct or

Operators of barges and boats at Agenebode, Etsako East Local Government Area of Edo State are currently smiling to the bank taking advantage of the dilapidated state of the Enugu-Onitsha Highway. Many travellers going to various parts of the north from the south now ferry their vehicles on barges on the River Niger to cross

By Ebi Perekeme  Ex-agitators under the First Phase have warned firms willing to approach the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP) for contracts to brace up for tough times saying it will no longer be business as usual under the programme’s Interim Administrator, Col. Milland Dixon Dikio (rtd). The National Secretary, First Phase Ex-Agitators, Pastor Nature Dumale,

According to the Sun, soldiers have since been placed on alert and have been deployed to strategic locations to mount security checkpoints, monitor, prevent and arrest potential attackers. It was gathered that security measures have been beefed up all over the city. The Nigerian military obtained security reports late Tuesday which indicated that attackers were

The Supreme Court has fixed January 17, 2022 to hear the application challenging the jurisdiction of the court and the main suit, in the case instituted by the Rivers State Government, seeking to stop the Federal Government from ceding 17 oil wells in the state, to Imo State. The seven-man panel led by Justice Kudirat