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.
Minister of Transportation Rotimi Amaechi’s absence from the House Committee on Land Transport on Tuesday stalled the ministry’s 2018 Budget defence. The exercise, which was scheduled to hold at the National Assembly Conference Hall in Abuja, was adjourned till further notice. Mr Aminu Sani, the Chairman of the committee, said it was its tradition not
Ijaw leaders rose from a meeting at Kiagbodo in Delta State yesterday, threatening to reject any presidential candidate opposed to restructuring of the country. The meeting had in attendance Governor Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa State; Deputy Governor of Delta State, Mr. Kingsley Otuaro; Ijaw national leader, Chief Edwin Clark; former Minister of Aviation, Alabo Graham
Our troops are on ground, says Nigerian army Cameroonian soldiers have invaded Nigerian communities in Cross River State, the second time in two months. The soldiers had reportedly killed a Nigerian and a Cameroonian refugee in Danare, Boki Local Government Area (LGA) of the state in December, last year. The incident followed a military crackdown
President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday warned that his government would no longer tolerate wanton killings and kidnapping by hoodlums. President Buhari also vowed that those involved in the murder of innocent persons would be made to face the wrath of the law. He explained that the rise in the level of violent crimes across Nigeria
A report by Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Germany, has alerted that rainfall changes caused by global warming will increase river flood risks across the globe including Africa. According to the report, fluvial floods are among the most common and devastating natural disasters. Scientistsí say there is the need for increase in flood
…warns Ondo Deputy Governor; ”don’t take us for granted” …leader says, he has borrowed N17m to maintain boys Some repentant militants who were alleged to have staged the daring kidnap of the six senior secondary school students of Lagos model college, Igbonla, Epe in Lagos state and also the Arepo pipeline vandalIzation, under the leadership
An elder statesman and leader of the Pan Niger Delta Forum, Chief Edwin Clark, has pleaded with the militant group, Niger Delta Avengers, to be patient with the ongoing dialogue between the Federal Government and the region’s leaders towards addressing the plight of the people. Clark also told the group that PANDEF, under whose auspices
Maj.-Gen. Enebong Udoh on Friday formally took over as the General Officer Commanding (GOC) 81 Division of the Nigerian Army, NAN report. At a brief ceremony held at the Division’s Headquarters in Victoria Island, Lagos, Udoh’s predecessor, Maj.-Gen. Peter Dauke, handed over the division’s flag to the new GOC after signing the handing and taking
…Dakuku assures of zero tolerance to piracy in Gulf of Guinea The Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, has disclosed that the Federal Government has approved an Integrated National Security Strategy (INSS) for the Nigerian maritime sector. According to him, the strategy which will be implemented in collaboration with other countries in the Gulf of Guinea
A former Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA ) Director-General, Dr Patrick Akpobolokemi yesterday denied looting the agency’s funds. Testifying before Justice Ibrahim Buba of the Federal High Court in Lagos after opening his defence, Akpobolokemi said all the actions he took in office had the approval of former President Goodluck Jonathan. He denied
…We shall officially declare Niger Delta Republic-CNDA Following the three weeks of consultations and meetings across the Niger Delta region, the Coalition of Niger Delta Agitators on Wednesday, asked the Federal Government to implement the nation’s restructuring, resource control, and other sundry issues within 90-days or face their wrath as they have listed a number
…No Wealth From Niger Delta, No Nigeria-PANDEF …We Are More Resolved To Emancipate Ourselves-Mulade The Pan Niger Delta Forum, PANDEF, which consists of a group of cerebral personalities across the South South, is set to hold the next mega rally to push for the adoption of a restructuring in the political architecture of the nation. The
The Coordinator, Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP) retired Brig-Gen. Paul Boroh has described the news of his sack as untrue. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Boroh was sighted performing his duties when a NAN Correspondent visited his office on Wednesday in Abuja. Boroh said he was neither sacked nor suspended from office by
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has arrested the younger sister to Mrs. Patience Jonathan, the wife of the immediate past President, Goodluck Jonathan, over suspicious payments of N3bn made into her many accounts. The accounts, with a combined balance of N3bn, are in Skye Bank, Stanbic IBTC, Diamond Bank and Ecobank. It was learnt
Former international football star, George Weah, has today been sworn in as Liberia’s new president, in the country’s first transition between democratically-elected leaders since 1944. Weah, 51, took over from Nobel laureate Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, who spent 12 years at the helm, steering the West African nation away from the trauma of a civil war.
The Islamic State in West Africa (ISWA) network operating within some North Central and South-South sections of Nigeria may be responsible for the recent killings recorded in Benue State and other parts of the country. This information is said to be contained in an intelligence report presented to President Muhammadu Buhari by security agencies, including
Some people suspected to be Fulani herdsmen on Sunday reportedly attacked the farm of a former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Chief Olu Falae, located at Ilado Village in Akure North Local Government Area of Ondo State. It was gathered that the hoodlums did not steal anything on the farm but burnt down
•Says, Jonathan still paying election liabilities Former Career Diplomat and retired Permanent Secretary, Ambassador Godknows Boladei Igali, has said that former President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, has remained one of the poorest former Nigerian leaders, even in Africa, in recent years. Ambassador Igali also said that the immediate past Nigerian President was currently struggling to settle
The Federal High Court in Lagos has ruled that Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has “sufficient interest to bring its suit to stop former governors and now serving senators and ministers from receiving double pay and life pensions, and to seek recovery of over N40bn of public funds unduly received by these public officers.”
Other aspects of the bill will be handled by joint c’ttee of both Houses – Saraki With the passage of the Petroleum Industry Governance Bill (PIGB) by the House of Representatives on Wednesday, the Speaker of the House Hon. Yakubu Dogara Thursday urged President Muhammadu Buhari to, as a matter of urgency, sign into law
Coordinator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP), Brig.-Gen. Paul Boroh (rtd), has pleaded with the Niger Delta Avengers (NDA) and youths in the region not to maintain the prevailing peace in the Niger Delta area. Boroh, also the Special Adviser to the President on Niger Delta Affairs, made the plea in an interview on Thursday
Ninety five ex-Boko Haram terrorists that have been rehabilitated under the Deradicalization, Rehabilitation and Reintegration (DRR) programme are now set to be reintegrated into the society. The Chief of Defence Staff, Gen. Gabriel Olonisakin, disclosed this on Thursday in Abuja when he declared open a stakeholders meeting to work out modalities for the reintegration of
•Demands sack of cabinet members, service chiefs •Says foreign militias operating in NigeriaSuspends sittings for security summit •Ohanaeze, Afenifere visit Benue Governor Ortom •’Some herders are Boko Haram members’ •Cattlemen get ‘24-hour ultimatum to quit S’ East’ The Senate, yesterday, delivered a damning indictment on the President Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Government, stopping short of calling
A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, and kinsman of the President, Alhaji Muhammad Ibrahim Daura, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari, to resign his position as the Minister of Petroleum Resources to concentrate on salvaging the country. At a briefing in Kaduna, yesterday, Daura argued that the office of the President was very demanding and
PRESS STATEMENT HAPPY DOOMED YEAR NIGERIA; GET READY FOR OPERATION BRINGING DOWN FPSO The high command of the Niger Delta Avengers wishes all Niger Deltans a happy New Year as we admonish the Nigerian Government to brace up for the doom we have finished all arrangement to unleash on the oil sector in a few
President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday in Abuja met behind closed doors with visiting Gambia’s President Adama Barrow at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. Barrow, who is visiting Nigeria for the first time since his inauguration as Gambian President on Jan. 19, 2017 arrived the presidential villa at about 11.50a.m. The President would host Barrow to a
The Nigeria Prisons Service (NPS) on Monday denied reported rumours that detained alleged mastermind of the 2010 bombing in Abuja, Charles Okah was refused medical attention in Kuje prison. According to a statement issued and made available to newsmen by the NPS spokesman Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Command, Chukwuedo Humphrey, the command has never relented in
…says he should apologise to Nigerians Samson Okwu, a member of the House of Representatives representing Obi/Oju Federal Constituency of Benue state, says the comment by Femi Adesina, spokesman of President Muhammadu Buhari, on Benue killings is a “statement of failure”. Adesina, on Wednesday, had said between 2013 and May 2015 when Goodluck Jonathan was
…warns against Malami’s unholy alliance with Itsekiris In furtherance of its determination to fight against what it perceives as an injustice being meted to the Ijaws in the recent attempt to rename the Maritime University, Okerenkoko, the Ijaw Youths Council has written a letter to the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki. In the letter signed
The dreaded Bayelsa State bandit and kidnap kingpin, Kareowei, cornered in a community in Delta State by soldiers attached to the Joint Task Force (JTF), after he had allegedly beheaded a Department of State Services, DSS, operative and killed about four soldiers, surrendered to heavily-armed soldiers, who ambushed him at Torugbene community, Burutu Local Government Area,
Another explosion has rocked the Escravos-to-Lagos (ELP) located in Nigeria’s Niger Delta region, barely four days after repairs, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation said on Thursday. The previous explosion plunged Nigeria into nationwide darkness at Christmas. If the ELP is shut for a long period, it may disrupt oil production as companies may find it difficult
– By Walter Duru ONE of the biggest stories about the Niger Delta region of Nigeria today is the killing of a dreaded cultist, Johnson Igwedibia, also known as Don Waney, by a combined team of men of the military and Department for State Services – DSS. In a Press Statement issued by the Nigerian
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, has released the 2019 General Elections timetable in Abuja during a press conference recently. According to the INEC Chairman, the early release is aimed at engendering certainty in Nigeria’s electoral calendar adding that it would enable all stakeholders to prepare adequately for elections as obtains
• Calls on relevant agencies to ignore memo • Declare to join 5 million man-match organised by ijaw youths The Delta state chapter of the Ijaw Welders and Fitters Association has condemned in strong terms the controversial memo purportedly sent to the National Assembly advising that the name of the host community of the Nigerian Maritime University
The Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, has finalised plans to set up training programmes that would ensure the creation of jobs for women and youths in the Niger Delta region. The NDDC Managing Director, Mr Nsima Ekere, outlined the plans on Wednesday at the flag-off ceremony of the 6th Empowerment Support Initiative, ESI, and NDDC Skill Acquisition Training
