The Office of the Special Adviser to the President on the Niger Delta, Mr. Kingsley Kuku, has awarded scholarship to 36 youths of the Niger Delta for degree programmes in the United States. The Technical Assistant to the Presidential Amnesty Programme, Larry Pepple, who represented Kuku at a send-off for the youths at the Abuja […]
By JIMITOTA ONOYUME PORT HARCOURT — JOINT Task Force, JTF, has stepped up its crusade against illegal oil bunkering in the Niger Delta region. Commander of the task force, Major General Beita Debiro, while on patrol of waterways in Rivers State said that the JTF was set to eliminate illegal oil bunkering activities in the […]
These are not the best of times for Godsday Orubebe, the Niger Delta Affairs minister. Still battling to wriggle himself out of the allegations of stealing and acquisitions of mansions in Abuja, made by the Dino Melaye, led network against corruption, Orubebe is again riding in another gathering storm of scandals. Indeed, playing the script […]
On May 29, some students from the Niger Delta held a rally in Abuja to mark President Goodluck Jonathan’s two years in office. The rally ended up in the picketing of Niger Delta Minister Elder Godsday Orubebe’s office because of his alleged refusal to see them. EMMANUEL AHANONU reports. IT was May 29, a day […]
Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, has procured over 100 tractors for distribution to state ministries of agriculture in the nine Niger Delta states to boost food production. Managing Director of the Commission, Dr. Christian Oboh, in a chat with newsmen after inspecting the tractors in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, said that plans were in top […]
By Soni Daniel, Regional Editor, North Northern elders have pointedly said President Goodluck Jonathan will not be re-elected in 2015. They, therefore, said a segment of the Niger Delta people, particularly erstwhile militant leader, Alhaji Asari Dokubo, who said there would be war in Nigeria if their kinsman, Jonathan, is not re-elected, may start their […]
FORMER leaders of Niger Delta militants have warned that they will go back to the creeks if the 2015 presidential election is manipulated to edge out President Goodluck Jonathan. The ex-militant leaders, who issued the warning while speaking with newsmen in Port Harcourt on Sunday, expressed sadness over an alleged plot to scheme Jonathan out […]
Seneca it was who opined that “Men love their country not because it is great but because it is their own.” We may disagree with President Goodluck Jonathan; we may criticise him, still, that is not a good reason to bastardise our country. It is the only country we have. It is ours and ours […]
By Ndubuisi Francis For the Ministry of Niger Delta Affairs to effectively coordinate development activities in the Niger Delta region, all stakeholders, including oil companies, private sector, and local communities must buy into the region’s evolving action plan. The activities of all federal institutions operating in the region should also be streamlined with those of […]
SPECIAL Adviser to President Goodluck Jonathan on Niger Delta/Chairman of Presidential Committee on Amnesty Programme, Mr. Kingsley Kuku, has solicited for the support of ex-militant leaders in ensuring peace in the country Kuku, who spoke at the weekend in Yenagoa at the launch of the Leadership Peace and Cultural Development Initiative (LPCDI), a non-governmental organisation […]
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