By Our Reporter The Senate Committee on Niger Delta on Monday rejected the 2020 budget of the Ministry of Niger Delta Affairs for omitting major ongoing projects in its capital appropriation. Senate Committee on Niger Delta Chairman Senator Peter Nwaoboshi asked that the budget be re-represented. The Senator representing Delta North said there were abandoned

“HOSCON will want the president to urgently redirect the management of 13% Derivation Fund as the current governors’ management efforts is more bedevilled with fraud than is currently obtained in the NDDC.”

Alleged inflation of a water hyacinth contract in the Niger Delta from N2.5 billion to a whooping amount of N65 billion by the management of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), generated serious concern in the Senate Thursday, Oct. 17. The open investigative hearing convened by the Senate Public Account to look into the truth

By Ebi Perekeme Ijaw leader, Chief Edwin Clark, has described the death of his younger brother, Major-Gen. Henry Clark (rtd), as devastating, shocking and heart breaking, especially for the very fact that the late brother was not sick. The late Clark reportedly died peacefully, two days to his 71st birthday at his Enerhen home, near

Former Minister of Police Affairs and prominent South-South leader, Alaowei Broderick Bozimo, has advocated a halt to alleged lopsided allocation of oil blocks by the Federal Government to a section of the country to the detriment of oil-bearing communities in Niger-Delta, saying, “it cannot be tolerated for much longer.” The former minister, who described the

President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday, Oct. 17, ordered a forensic audit of the operations of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) from 2001 to 2019, Daily Sun reports. Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina said the directive followed the persistent criticisms of the operations of the commission. Buhari made the

President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday met behind closed doors with former President Goodluck Jonathan at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the former president arrived the State House at about 3.00p.m, and went straight to the President’s office. NAN reports that the agenda of the meeting between President Buhari and Jonathan was

By Badmus Shina The Ijaw Youth Congress, IYC, has revealed alleged planned attack orchestrated against Ijaw people of Edo state. In a statement Oct. 5, by President, IYC worldwide, Pereotubo Oweilaemi, Esq., said that those who planned the alleged attack shared their to-be modus operandi on social media. Oweilaemi supposed that the plan was sponsored by Bini Kingdom

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

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

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

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 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

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 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

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……

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

By Esther Poweide The Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Godswill Akpabio has withheld payments for contracts executed by the last management of Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC). He lamented that NDDC had failed to live up to its responsibilities in the last 20 years. Akpabio said it was disheartening that NDDC was paying over N200m

Former Head of Service in Lagos State, Alhaji Rafiu Tinubu is dead. Tinubu died in Abuja on Wednesday at the age of 75, after a brief illness. A statement signed by Mr Gboyega Akosile, Chief Press Secretary to Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, described Tinubu’s death as a huge loss to the state and the

—You have exhibited good leadership, maturity and democratic values – Ex-President Jonathan By Ebi Kemelayefa The newly appointed Executive Director, Finance and Administration in the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Mr. Maxwell Okoh has assured that the agency would experience a new life under him. It was noted that Okoh said he would make sure

By Ebi Perekeme Agitators in the Niger Delta has warned the Federal Government to rescind any plan take away supervision of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, from Ministry of Niger Delta, MNDA, to the Office of Secretary to Government of the Federation, OSGF. The agitators gave this directive on Monday, September 2, through the

Nine oil producing states in the Niger Delta have resolved to meet with President Muhammadu Buhari over the recently reconstituted board of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC). The governors, who met on Thursday, August 29 in Abuja, however, called for calm by indigenes of the county who have been demonstrating since the new board