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Why we blocked East- West road – ex-militant leader

Posted by admin Niger Delta Monday, September 19th, 2011

On September 6, 2011, fear mixed with panic enveloped Mbiama and its environs as ex-militants under the aegis of Niger Delta Development ex-militants phase two extension, barricaded the East- West road halting human and vehicular movement for eight hours. The brain behind the plot, Julius Joseph in an interview disclosed that the action to barricade […]

Monarch, N/Delta groups want corrupt NDDC officials prosecuted

Posted by admin Niger Delta Sunday, September 18th, 2011

WARRI- Former chairman of Traditional Rulers of Oil Minerals Producing Communities of Nigeria, TROMPCON, HRM, Pere Charles Ayemi-Botu, Niger-Delta Survival Synergy, NDSS, and Ijaw Progressive Agenda for Change have asked the Federal Government to direct security agencies to immediately bring to book all those involved in fraud in the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC. Pere […]

Jonathan sacks NDDC Board

Posted by admin Niger Delta Tuesday, September 13th, 2011

President Goodluck Jonathan has dissolved the Board of Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC). The Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Senator Anyim Pius Anyim announced the dissolution in a terse press statement issued late yesterday. According to Anyim, the President has also directed the Managing Director and other members of the Executive of the […]

Alleged Sleaze in NDDC: Board, MD lobby Jonathan against removal

Posted by admin Niger Delta Saturday, September 10th, 2011

Strong indications emerged on Friday that the top management members of the Niger Delta Development Commission had started lobbying President Goodluck Jonathan against the move to sack them over alleged financial misconduct. SATURDAY PUNCH gathered that the NDDC Board, led by retired Air Vice-Marshal Larry Koinyan, and the Managing Director of the commission, Chibuzor […]

Amnesty shoots oil output to 2.5m bpd – Orubebe

Posted by admin Niger Delta Friday, September 9th, 2011

Minister of Niger Delta, Elder Godsday Orubebe yesterday said that the region has helped to shoot up oil out put to 2.5million barrels per day. Orubebe at the Sectorial Achievements to mark 100 days in office of President Goodluck Jonathan in Abuja, claimed that it was the peace in the Niger Delta region in recent […]

‘We want amnesty programme’

Posted by admin Niger Delta Tuesday, September 6th, 2011

AS hundreds of former militants went on rampage yesterday, the amnesty office said President Goodluck Jonathan had not directed it to admit former agitators in the Niger Delta who failed to embrace the programme. Hundreds of former militants drawn from Bayelsa, Delta, Rivers, Akwa Ibom and Ondo states barricaded the East-West Road at Mbiama, Rivers […]

Amnesty has no third phase, FG replies protesting ex-militants

Posted by admin Niger Delta Tuesday, September 6th, 2011

The Federal Government, on Tuesday, described the demonstration of some Niger Delta ex-militants in Yenagoa, who obstructed traffic for more than five hours on the East-West Road as unwarranted, insisting that the Presidential Amnesty programme had no third phase. Reacting to protests by some ex-militants, numbering over 7,000, to kick against their non-inclusion in the […]

Heads may roll at NDDC

Posted by admin Niger Delta Tuesday, September 6th, 2011

Palpable apprehension has gripped top shots at the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) following reported submission by the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Anyim Pius Anyim, of the report of the Steve Oronsaye-led Committee to President Goodluck Jonathan last weekend. The SGF, sources said, had reviewed the recommendations of the committee and […]

Ex-militants on the rampage, block East-West Road

Posted by admin Niger Delta Tuesday, September 6th, 2011

Hundreds of travelers were on Tuesday left stranded for eight hours on the East/West Road as hundreds of ex-militants protested their non-inclusion in the post-amnesty programme of the Federal Government. The protest, which took security agents unaware caused confusion and pandemonium as residents of Yenagoa became apprehensive that the capital city would be invaded by […]

N/Delta Ministry has failed – Akiefa

Posted by admin Niger Delta Sunday, August 28th, 2011

A Niger Delta activist, Mr. Frank Akiefa, weekend, said the Niger Delta Ministry has not lived up to expectation in terms of developing the long-neglected region despite the huge budget geared towards the development of the area. Akiefa, who stated this in Warri, Delta State, said the Ministry was created following the outcry by the […]