The Buhari administration’s Niger Delta New Vision is designed to “develop a new and prosperous Niger Delta through the Federal Government’s forthright partnerships with State Governments, the Private Sector and Local Communities.” Ongoing projects under the Niger Delta New Vision include: Take-off of Maritime University in Delta State Commencement of Ogoni Clean-up Approval for the […]
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Writing about the creeks and swamps of the Niger Delta can be quite a struggle for me at times. Many times, I have set aside my poetry quill and declared to myself that I would no longer write poems like these. But then something happens that prompts a line, and then another one, and more. […]
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The Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN) has blamed Nigeria’s reliance on fossil fuels for the unrelenting oil spill-related incidents across the country, the recent one involving over 50 persons incinerated when a pipeline belonging to the Pipelines and Product Marketing Company (PPMC) in Umuode Community in Aba, Abia State exploded. The incident […]
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Close to two years after the Federal Government launched the $10b Infrastructure Fund to stimulate development in the Niger Delta, there is no trace of the fund anywhere.In October 2016, the Federal Government launched the $10b Infrastructure Fund to end insurgency and introduce sustainable development in the region. Minister of State for Petroleum, Ibe Kachikwu […]
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Minister of State for Petroleum, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu, yesterday, said the much-awaited overhaul of the country’s refineries would become a reality next month, as plans have been concluded to complete necessary arrangement with financials. The minister, who reviewed efforts of the current administration in the oil and sector, noted that President Muhammadu Buhari and the […]
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“Our predecessors in office made a lot of political capital out of the fact that they are from Niger Delta and had the exclusive right to properly handle the affairs of the region. “As it turned out, this was a big, big swindle as nothing came out of it. Money came; money went and passed […]
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Ijaw Peoples Development Initiative, IPDI, has urged multinational oil companies operating in the Niger Delta region, which declined to relocate their operational headquarters to the area notwithstanding several directives from the Federal Government, to vacate the oil-rich region. The rights group in a statement by the national president, Austin Ozobo, asserted: “Our attention has […]
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The Minster for Niger Delta, Pastor Usani Usani, has reiterated the East West Road is designed to fail.He stated this at the weekend in Calabar during the maiden edition of the Pragmatic Leaders Good Governance symposium. Usani said the road, which was originally designed to pass through Oron in Akwa Ibom to Urua Watt […]
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Human rights activist, Femi Falana (SAN), has claimed that the Muhammadu Buhari administration knows the identity of the suspected Fulani Herdsmen carrying out incessant killings in the country but is lackadaisical about bring them to book. Falana, who appeared on Channel TV’s ‘Sunrise Daily’ on Friday, slated the current government, which prides itself in […]
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SPOKESPERSON of the Ijaw Peoples Development Initiative, IPDI, an Ijaw ethnic nationality rights group, Comrade Ezekiel Daniel, seized by Department of State Services, DSS, operatives August 3, 2016, on the suspicion of being the mouthpiece of the Niger Delta Avengers, NDA, a militant group, gained his freedom, November 26, after spending 15 months in detention […]
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