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Arewa youth warn Clark, Asari Dokubo

Posted by admin Arewa House, Headlines, Niger Delta Tuesday, August 7th, 2012

Northern youths under the aegis of the Arewa Youth Forum on Tuesday in Kaduna asked President Goodluck Jonathan to “call to order,” his kinsmen – former Federal Commissioner for Information and Ijaw Leader, Chief Edwin Clark; and the leader of the Niger Delta Volunteer Force, Asari Dokubo – for their “unguarded utterances” which could lead […]

President can’t resign – OPC, AYCF, IYC • Prepare for war – Dokubo-Asari

Posted by admin Boko Haram, Latest Politics, Niger Delta, Top Stories Monday, August 6th, 2012

CONDEMNATION, on Monday, trailed the request by the Boko Haram sect that President Goodluck Jonathan should become a Muslim or resign from office. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reported that the sect had in an internet broadcast, on Saturday, asked for Jonathan’s conversion or resignation as the condition for it to stop violence. However, […]

Jonathan visits amnesty trainees in Trinidad and Tobago

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Latest Politics, Niger Delta Thursday, August 2nd, 2012

President Goodluck Jonathan, on Wednesday, visited the National Energy Skills Centre (NESC) at Point Lisas, Couva in Trinidad and Tobago, in continuation of his three-day state visit to the Caribbean nation. The centre is currently training no fewer than 70 Niger Delta youths in heavy equipment operations, crane operations, metal arc welding, industrial mechanical maintenance […]

Ex-militant disowns threat against Shell

Posted by admin Headlines, Niger Delta Tuesday, July 24th, 2012

An ex-militant leader and President of the Leadership Forum for Peace in Niger Delta, Pastor Reuben, has distanced himself from the threat of some ex-militants to unleash violence on the Shell Petroleum Development Company if it fails to quickly recall Mr. David Alabrah, whose employment was terminated by the company in March. Reuben, in a […]

Jonathan sends N250.8b NDDC budget to Senate

Posted by admin Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Legislature, Niger Delta, Presidency, Senate Saturday, July 21st, 2012

President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday presented the 2012 budget proposal of N250.875billion of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) to the Senate. Senate President, David Mark who read two separate letters from the President during plenary, also acknowledged the receipt of the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB). In his letter, titled: “Presentation of the 2012 Budget Proposal […]

MEND: Why Tompolo suspended Boyloaf, by Warri-Ijaw group

Posted by admin Headlines, Niger Delta Monday, July 16th, 2012

By Emma Amaize WARRI—THE Warri-Ijaw Peace Monitoring Group, WIPMG, Warri in Delta State, yesterday, said, following the antecedents of former militant leader, Victor Ben, alias Boyloaf, it was not surprised that he said in a reent interview, that Government Ekpemupolo, alias Tompolo, was not the leader of the defunct Movement for the Emancipation of the […]

Govt culpable in N’Delta pollution—Soyinka

Posted by admin Headlines, Niger Delta, Wole Soyinka Saturday, June 30th, 2012

June 30, 2012 by Chukwudi Akasike, Port Harcourt Professor Wole Soyinka | credits: File copy Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, has said that oil companies collaborate with corrupt governments in the past to inflict pains of environmental degradation on the Niger Delta people. Soyinka explained that the Niger Delta was systematically poisoned and degraded through […]

JTF kills 6 pirates in gun duel in Bayelsa

Posted by admin Armed Forces, Bayelsa, Headlines, Niger Delta, State News Monday, June 25th, 2012

THE efforts of the Joint Task Force (JTF) codenamed “Operation Pulo Shield” in the Niger Delta to rid the region’s waterways of criminal elements paid off on Saturday as operatives of the special security force killed six suspected pirates in a gun battle that lasted for one and a half hours in Bayelsa State. Nigerian […]

Dasuki’s appointment as NSA: Jonathan not sectional – N/Delta group

Posted by admin Latest Politics, Niger Delta Monday, June 25th, 2012

A Niger Delta-based civil society organisation, People and Environmental Rights Assembly (PERA) has commended President Goodluck Jonathan for dispelling the insinuation that he is a sectional leader, by choosing the new National Security Adviser (NSA), Colonel Mohammed Sambo Dasuki (retd) from the core North. The group, in a statement signed by its national coordinator, Mr […]

It’s in the interest of North not to field a candidate against Jonathan in 2015 – Asari Dokubo

Posted by admin General Politics, Niger Delta, Top Stories Saturday, June 23rd, 2012

BY SIMON EBEGBULEM, Benin City Alhaji Asari Dokubo, a former President of the Ijaw Youth Council and leader of the Niger Delta Peoples Volunteer Force (NDPVF). In this interview with Saturday Vanguard in Benin City, he bared his mind about current political situation in the country, saying that the people of the South South are […]