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 Nigeria President, Goodluck Jonathan, has been appointed by the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) as a special envoy to lead the sub-regional body’s mediation mission in Mali. Jonathan’s media aide, Ikechukwu Eze, made this known in a statement on Tuesday. ”As a special envoy, the former President is expected to facilitate dialogue
By Ebi Perekeme PAN-Niger Delta Forum, PANDEF, has supported the oil and gas producing communities in Itsekiri, Ijaw and Urhobo ethnic nationalities, Delta State, demanding for development from the Federal Government. The apex socio-cultural organisation of the South-South geo-political zone, National Publicity Secretary of the regional body, Hon Ken Robinson, disclosed this in a statement
The Federal Government on Wednesday opened a fresh bid to select contractors to provide potable water in oil spill impacted Ogoni communities in Rivers State. The Project Coordinator, Hydrocarbon Pollution Remediation Project (HYPREP), Marvin Dekil, said at the opening of the bid in Port Harcourt that the Project was an initiative of the UN Environment
Justice Ibrahim Buba of Federal High Court Lagos has discharged former Niger Delta Ex-Militant Leader, Government Ekpemupolo, popularly called Tompolo, over charges of N45.9bn fraud. Justice Buba upheld the no-case submission filed by Tompolo and others. Government Ekpemupolo, known as Tompolo, was the leader of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND),
By Ebi Perekeme Following an appeal filed by Mr. Timi Alaibe, the governorship aspirant for the Peoples Democratic Party in Bayelsa State, challenging the emergence of Governor Douye Diri as the party’s candidate in the 2019 election, the Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed the appeal. A five-man panel of the Supreme Court led by Justice
By Ebi Perekeme The House of Representatives on Monday vowed not to spear anyone indicted in the ongoing investigation into the N70.495 billion contract scandal by recommending to the Executive that such individual(s) should be barred from holding public office in Nigeria. Chairman, House Committee on Public Accounts, Hon. Wole Oke issued the threat notice
The Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers and the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association said on Monday that the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation had sacked 850 contract workers at the nation’s refineries. The unions disclosed this in a joint statement signed by the National President, NUPENG, Williams Akporeha, and his counterpart
President Muhammadu Buhari, July 12, reconstituted the Board of the Nigerian Liquefied Natural Gas Limited (NLNG), for the first time since 2005, and Bonny Gas Transport Limited (BGT), appointing King Edmund Daukoru as Chairman and President of the Board of the NLNG and BGT respectively. Edmund Daukoru, the Amayanabo of Nembe, was former Minister of
An International Non Governmental Organisation, Stakeholders Democracy Network (SDN), has appealed to the Nigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari, to save the Niger Delta from an ecological disaster. It also urged the president to collaborate with the National Assembly to pass the National Oil Spill Detection and Response Agency (NOSDRA) Amendment Bill. SDN in its report, “2018
By Ebi Perekeme Residents of Bayelsa state have called out the management of Port Harcourt Electricity Distribution Company, PHEDC, to address the epileptic electricity in the state. This came as Twitter users on Sunday afternoon flooded the micro-blogging site with tweets hashtag “#GiveBayelsaLight” calling on PHEDC, to give electricity to the residents of Bayelsa State.
By Ebi Perekeme The Minister of Niger Delta, Senator Godswill Akpabio yesterday said endemic corruption, lack of patriotism and the entrenched culture of patronage had crippled the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) from delivering its mandate to the people of the region in the last 19 years of its operations. Akpabio, a former governor of
The Minister of State, Petroleum Resources, Mr Timipre Sylva, at the weekend disclosed that in the next two weeks, the ministry will transmit the revised Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) to the National Assembly so that work on it can begin fully. Speaking during an interview on Arise Television, the broadcast arm of THISDAY newspapers, the
By Our Reporter House of Representatives has launched a full-scale investigation into the N70.495 billion allegedly paid by Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) to 1,773 contractors as mobilization fees between 2008 and 2012 without executing the projects. The House Committee on Public Accounts which is investigating the matter occasioned by the audit queries from the
The Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Senator Godswill Akpabio, on Friday, said the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) had not made meaningful impact because it was only serving “greedy politicians” in the region. He stated this when he appeared before the Senate ad hoc committee on the alleged misappropriation of N40bn in the intervention agency
An advocacy group, Network for Defense and Good Governance (NDDGG), has called on the federal government to ensure that the Rivers State government gives account of its expenditure of the N78.9 billion reimbursement approved for the state recently. Last month, the federal government approved the fund as reimbursement for its spending on federal roads in
By Ebi Perekeme Chevron Nigeria Limited (CNL), operator of the NNPC/CNL Joint Venture, has on Thursday, dissociated itself from the circulation of false recruitment information posted by unscrupulous persons and organizations in several media and online channels, advertising job positions in CNL. The company stated that fraudulent job offers have reportedly been sent through emails,
—N281bn released to NDDC from 2016 to May, says AGF THE Acting Executive Director, Projects, Interim Management Committee, IMC of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, Dr. Cairo Ojougboh has said that no single Kobo has been misapplied by the Committee since it came on board. Speaking in Abuja Thursday when he appeared before the
The Ajaokuta–Kaduna–Kano (AKK) pipeline is a 614km-long pipeline being developed by Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) to transport natural gas from the Niger Delta to central Nigeria. The £2.2bn ($2.8bn) pipeline project represents phase one of the 1,300km-long Trans-Nigerian Gas Pipeline (TNGP) project, which is being developed as part of Nigeria’s Gas Master Plan to
No fewer than seven persons have been reportedly killed in an explosion from Gbetiokun, OML 40, operated by the Nigerian Petroleum Development Company (NPDC), on behalf of the NPDC/Elcrest Joint Venture. The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) stated that the blast occurred on Tuesday, during the installation of a ladder on a platform (Benin River
The Federal Government has put on hold the planned resumption of federal schools. It has also stopped students from participating in the West African Senior School Certificate Examinations earlier scheduled for August 4 to September 5. The Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, disclosed this to State House Correspondents at the end of a meeting of
The Federal Government has on Wednesday, called on the aggrieved people of the Gbaramatu Kingdom and Itsekiri in the Escravos area of Warri South-West LGA to sustain dialogue to achieve a win-win outcome with the Federal Government (FG), over pending demands. This call is coming against the backdrop of the 10 days’ ultimatum given to
Niger Delta Activist and the Ibe-Uyadonwei of Gbaramatu Kingdom, Chief Dennis Otuaro has felicitated with the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, His Excellency, Chief Timpre Marlin Sylva on his 56th birthday. In a Press Statement he personally signed and issued in Oporoza, Headquarters of Gbaramatu Kingdom, the Development Activist and Scholar, congratulated the Minister
—Says, publish names of any Gbaramatu beneficiaries —Remains resolute on its shutdown plans By Ebi Perekeme Sequel to claims of marginalisation by the Federal Government, Gbaramatu Kingdom has on Saturday July 4th, called on President Muhammadu Buhari to as a matter of urgency to halt the current bidding process for the 57 Marginal Fields in
The United Niger Delta Energy Development Security Strategy, UNDEDSS, on Thursday, warned the National Assembly, NASS, to stop slowing down well-meaning programmes and projects of the Federal Government and its MDAs in the Niger Delta. In a statement by its Executive Secretary, Mr. Tony Uranta, UNDEDSS stated that the ongoing feud between the Labour Ministry
See full list of the non-career Ambassadors-designate: 1. Debo Adesina (Oyo) 2. Ademola Seriki (Lagos) 3. Dare Sunday Awoniyi (Kogi) 4. Engr Umar Suleiman (Adamawa) 5. L.S. Mandama (Adamawa) 6. Oboro Effiong Akpabio (Akwa Ibom) 7. Chief Elijah Onyeagba (Anambra) 8. Abubakar D. Ibrahim Siyi (Bauchi) 9. Philip K. Ikurusi (Bayelsa) 10. Hon. Tarzoor Terhemen
A leader of the Ijaw nation, Edwin Clark, has backed former governor Seriake Dickson’s bid to contest the vacant Bayelsa West Senatorial District. Clark said Bayelsa, and indeed the Ijaw nation, were seriously in need of “men of demonstrable character, courage, capacity and knowledge like Dickson” to run for Senate. In a statement on Sunday,
By Ebi Perekeme President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of Prof. Emmanuel Munakurogha Adigio as the new Vice Chancellor of the Nigerian Maritime University, NMU, Okerenkoko, Delta State. Prof. Emmanuel Adigo is the 2nd Vice Chancellor of NMU following his appointment on Wednesday June 24. ALSO READ:(BREAKING) Buhari Appoints New VC For Maritime University
The Pan Niger Delta Forum has said it will no longer beg the Federal Government to be committed to the growth of the Niger Delta region It however added that it would continue to speak to youths of the area to remain peaceful in the face of the insensitivity of the Federal Government to its
Nigeria’s economy is expected to plunge into severe economic recession, the worst the country has experienced in four decades, the latest World Bank Nigeria Development Update (NDU), has posited. According to the report titled ‘Nigeria In Times of COVID-19: Laying Foundations for a Strong Recovery,’ the collapse in oil prices as well as the COVID-19
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has disclosed that 19 pipeline points were vandalised in the month of March representing about 47 per cent decrease from the 32 points recorded in February 2020. The corporation disclosed this on its Monthly Financial and Operations Report (MFOR)for the month of March released in Abuja, on Wednesday. It
Ogoni women under the aegis of the Federation of Ogoni Women Associations (FOWA) has demanded from the Hydrocarbon Pollution Remediation Project (HYPREP) to implement a 30 per cent affirmative action in the implementation of the clean-up process of Ogoni project as it (HYPREP) begins the process of developing its gender policy. The women demanded that
A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos Thursday temporarily forfeited to the Federal Government the N250million diverted from the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) by a contractor. Justice Rilwan Aikawa made the interim order following an ex-parte application filed by Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) counsel Usman Buhari. Buhari told the judge that the
By Ebi Perekeme President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of Prof. Emmanuel Munakurogha Adigio as the new Vice Chancellor of the Nigeria Maritime University, NMU, Okerenkoko, Delta State. Prof. Emmanuel Adigo is the 2nd Vice Chancellor of NMU following his appointment on Wednesday June 24. More details later..
The government of Nigeria, led by President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the release of over US$ 50M to boost efforts to complete sections I-IV of the ongoing East-West Road project in Nigeria by 2021, in a bid to address infrastructure deficit in the Niger Delta region and the entire country at large. The East-West Road
By Our Correspondent Stakeholders and leaders from the nine states of the Niger Delta region have kicked against the constitution of a five-man probe panel into alleged fraud in the Presidential Amnesty Programme. They urged President Muhammadu Buhari to replace the panel with a substantive coordinator for continued peace in the region. The spokesperson of
