The Ijaw Youth Council has raised the alarm that there were plots to turn the now peaceful Niger Delta region into a theatre of war ahead of Saturday’s Governorship and state Houses of Assembly elections in the region. The umbrella body for Ijaw youths worldwide, particularly warned politicians in the region not to throw the […]
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Stakeholders in Niger Delta have cautioned President Muhammadu Buhari against signing the Petroleum Industry Governance Bill (PIGB), alleging that it seeks to privatise the country’s oil and gas assets and to further impoverish the people of the region. They warned that any attempt to privatise the oil and gas assets in the Niger Delta […]
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Ijaw and Itsekiri youths have set up a sensitization committee to go round communities ahead of commencement of dredging of the Excravos Bar to Warri Port, Delta state. Recently, President Mohammadu Buhari approved $13 Billion for the dredging. A joint statement by national President Ijaw Youth Council, IYC, Mr Eric Omare and the National […]
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The Afenifere National Publicity Secretary Mr. Yinka Odumakin believes the APC should rob the PDP of an article of campaign by doing the restructuring, which he considers necessary and expedient instead of fighting the PDP for calling for restructuring. In a swift welcome of the PDP’s position on restructuring, the Pan Yoruba Group Afenifere through […]
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The umbrella body of Ijaw youths, the Ijaw Youth Council Worldwide , has insisted that Nigeria ’ s unity is negotiable. President Buhari had said in a nationwide broadcast on Monday morning that Nigeria ’ s unity was not negotiable , warning agitators to desist from such quest . But the IYC President, Mr . Eric Omare, […]
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Fresh tension is brewing in the Niger Delta region, as hundreds of Ijaw youths on Wednesday vowed to resist further ‘harrassment and victimization’ of former President Goodluck Jonathan, his wife Patience and some ex-militants recently arrested by security agents. The youths in an enlarged protest held in Warri, Delta state threatened to block security agency […]
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Some leaders of the South-South region have carpeted the Katsina State Governor Bello Masari for accusing leaders of the oil-rich zone of having squandered 13 percent oil derivation to them over the years. “For six years, we had a Niger Delta president. Let us see what difference he made in six years when he was […]
Continue ReadingThe Ijaw Youth Council ( IYC ) Worldwide called on military officers carrying out the military operation styled operation crocodile smile in the Niger Delta to stop the constant harassment and intimidation of innocent villagers along the Warri and Forcados Rivers in Delta State. For the past two days, villagers applying these Rivers have been […]
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Below are separate statements by Eric Omare, IYC spokesman and Comrade Rex Ekiugbo Anighoro, Spokesman to Mujaheeden Abubakr Dokubo Asari on his alleged disappearance The Niger Delta People Salvation Front cum Niger Delta People Volunteer Force (NDPSF/NDPVF), that our leader, Alhaji Mujahedeen Abubakr Dokubo Asari, has been marked for assassination by the Nigerian State and […]
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The Ijaw Youth Council has lauded the accelerated search for oil in Northern Nigeria by President Muhammadu Buhari and northern governors but said the move is coming at the wrong time. A statement signed by the council’s spokesman, Eric Omare, said President Buhari-led government should focus on diversifying the nation’s ailing economy, especially areas where […]
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