Only a fool will ask a man to drop his gun and not guarantee he gets his meals regularly. Except you plan on killing that man, or you have built a cell to keep all like him, including children born that will be like him, then you must ensure he…or majority like him have food. […]
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The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, MEND, has criticised the Chief of Army Staff, Tukur Buratai, for threatening the use of force in the Niger Delta. Mr. Buratai had on Monday warned that the government will use force if efforts at talks with militants in the region fail. He spoke in Port […]
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Environmental monitoring is often carried out to ensure that standards are maintained to ensure environmental and human health. In other words, we monitor to ensure that nothing goes wrong, and so that we detect when anything goes wrong. That is the standard idea of environmental monitoring. In the case of the Niger Delta, the matter […]
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The leader of the defunct Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, Government Ekpemupolo, has slammed President Muhammadu Buhari ignorance about situation of the Niger Delta region. He said the APC-led Federal Government is only interested in the oil produced in the region and not the well-being of its people. Ekpemupol (AKA Tompolo), in […]
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The South-South and South East lawmakers have urged the Federal Government to review the ownership structure of oil wells in the country by giving the people of the Niger Delta region at least 65 percent possess of the oil wells instead of the present ownership structure where less than 10 percent of the oil blocks […]
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The National Assembly and the Ministry of Petroleum Resources occupy key vantage points to leverage calm in the oil fields of the Niger Delta. They can make this happen by having communities take their place as true stakeholders in the management of oil revenues. This point cannot be overemphasized. It cannot wait until PIB IV […]
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Suddenly the Nigeria oil output at peak times have plummeted to 900,000 BPD. The only product that I know in Nigeria that is source of our foreign earning is not groundnut, cocoa, limestone or bauxite, It is oil. Yet we have a few recalcitrant troupe in your government who still believe that we are making […]
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Nnimmo Bassey, a renowned environmental justice advocate is the Director of the Health of Mother Earth Foundation, an ecological think tank and advocacy organisation. He also chaired Friends of the Earth International from 2008 to 2012. He spoke to Chineme Okafor on the challenges of oil pollution in the Niger Delta, its remediation, and the […]
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A fresh approach to resolve the Niger Delta crisis is being planned by the federal government going by the statement of the Minister of State for Petroleum, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu. The Minister told journalists on the sideline of the just concluded roadshow in China that the government is planning a three-stage approach to ensure permanent […]
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About a week ago, Nigeria’s minister of state for petroleum signed a contract of 80 billion dollars for new oil and gas infrastructure which included new oil pipelines, refineries and refurbishment of damaged oil facilities. For a country talking about about diversification from oil, I wished half of this fundings had gone to Jigawa, Ebonyi […]
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