Niger Delta
A coalition of groups from the Niger Delta region have enjoined the former Governor of Rivers state, Nyesom Wike and other ministerial nominees from the region to fix the Port harcourt and Warri refineries and seaports. The group comprising of the Niger Delta youths council worldwide, The South-South All progressives Congress (APC) youths vanguard […]
President Bola Tinubu is currently in a meeting with former Niger Delta agitator, Alhaji Asari Dokubo, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. Dokubo a strong supporter of President Tinubu during and after the presidential election. It could be recalled where he displayed in Port Harcourt in protest and also carried a group of men dressed […]
A former militant of the Niger Delta, Asari Dokubo has made claims that Rivers State is not a Christian state. The ex-militant was reacting to a statement made by the state governor Siminialayi Fubara on his assumption to office that Rivers State is a Christian state. However, the former Niger Delta warlord lamented […]
Some of the ex-agitators under the Presidential Amnesty Programme, PAP, have said they will not be intimidated by threats of arrest over their protest against the immediate removal of the interim administrator, Maj-Gen. Barry Ndiomu (retd), over non-payment of their six months allowances. The former agitators said they would protest in the nation’s […]
Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has promised residents of Delta state that he won’t betray their trust if he is elected. Speaking on Tuesday during his party’s presidential campaign rally at the Stephen Keshi stadium in Asaba, the Delta capaital, Atiku said he will tackle insecurity and […]
Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, has alleged that about N17bn allocated to stop oil theft has been diverted. Falana, while delivering his goodwill message in Lagos State Thursday, also stated that the Ministry of Niger Delta ought to be under the NDDC, and not the other way around. He spoke an event organised […]
The former leader of the defunct Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger-Delta, Government Ekpemupolo, alias Tompolo, despite having been declared wanted by the Joint Task Force in 2009 for the fortuitous killing of some soldiers and again in 2015 by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, over alleged conspiracy, illegal diversion […]
The President, Muhammadu Buhari, Thursday, said his regime had started taking steps in line with the recommendations of the Niger Delta Development Commission’s forensic audit report submitted to him in September 2021. He also raised hopes that the much-awaited appointment of board of directors for the commission would begin soon. Buhari also […]
The Ovie of Idjerhe Kingdom, His Majesty Monday Arthur Whiskey Udurhie 1, in Ethiope West Local Government Area has urged Federal government to fix the deplorable East-West road. Udurhie, speaking with journalists at his palace about issues in Niger Delta as a region and the country at large, The monarch accused the ministry of […]
A chieftain of the People’s Democratic Party in Delta State and Senior member of DC-23, Chief Pius Obvidje popularly known as P.OC says former President Olusegun Obasanjo has never stopped writing letters and criticizing the Niger Delta Region, a situation he believes is as a result of old age and hatred for the region. […]
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