Niger Delta
25 Aug 2023
• Minister vows to revisit NDDC’s forensic audit report Minister of Niger Delta Development, Abubakar Momoh, has unveiled his agenda for the region, vowing to revolutionise quality and standard of infrastructure for the people. Momoh, who stated this in Abuja during his inaugural press briefing, tagged: 'Special Development Agenda For The Niger Delta,' insisted that…
15 Aug 2023
.As Niger Delta women demand inclusion Stakeholders in oil host communities in Niger Delta have decried the delay in the implementation of the Petroleum Industry Act (PIA) 2021, two years after it was passed into law by former President Muhammadu Buhari, saying most communities are not included in the whole process. This was as women…
14 Aug 2023
A professor of Sociology from the University of Benin, Kingsley Omoyibo, has challenged stakeholders and leaders in oil communities of Niger Delta to explore humanistic methods in resolving persistent conflicts, saying it is more results-oriented.
13 Aug 2023
*Alleges Employment Of Over 80 Persons From Kogi Workers in the Presidential Amnesty Office have raised alarm over the deployment of indigenes of the Niger Delta from the Presidential Amnesty Office by the Interim Administrator, Maj Gen Barry Ndiomu (Retd). Some of the workers who spoke confidentially linked the current move to the alleged leakage…
9 Aug 2023
The Presidential Amnesty Program (PAP) has called on the security agencies to arrest those undermining the peace and stability in the Niger Delta region. The call was against the backdrop of efforts by some faceless groups to smear the image of the Interim Administrator of PAP, Major General Barry Ndomu (Rtd) through baseless allegations The…
3 Aug 2023
Military personnel have destroyed 36 illegal refining sites and arrested 22 suspected oil thieves in the Niger Delta. The Defence Headquarters spokesperson, Maj. Gen. Edward Buba, confirmed this on Thursday in Abuja while issuing an update on the operations of the armed forces at a bi-weekly news briefing. Buba said that the troops of Operation…
2 Aug 2023
A coalition of groups from the Niger Delta region have enjoined the former Governor of Rivers state, Nyesom Wike and other ministerial nominees from the region to fix the Portharcourt and Warri refineries and seaports. The group comprises the Niger Delta youths council worldwide ,The South South All progressives Congress (APC) youths vanguard and Coalition…
31 Jul 2023
...calls for declaration of environmental emergency in region Renowned Niger/Delta environmentalist, Dr Nnimmo Bassey has decried the wellbeing of those who depend on fisheries for food and nutritional security, saying it is 'clearly' at risk. Bassey, who is the Executive Director of Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF), lamented what he described as a dangerous…
24 Jul 2023
The zeal currently being displayed by Nigerian security agencies to stamp out the nefarious acts of stealing the country’s crude oil can hardly be faulted, considering the humongous public fund being lost daily on account of the theft.
15 Jul 2023
A GROUP of Niger Delta ex-militants have called for more meaningful development and socio-economic growth to sustain the prevailing peace in the region.
14 Jul 2023
Some stakeholders in the Niger Delta region, have said the quest by the Federal government to halt illegal oil activities in the region was achievable.
13 Jul 2023
Concerned by the devastating effects of gas flaring, environmental degradation and other effects of oil exploration in the Niger Delta, some Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) and environmental activists have demanded immediate action by the government and multinationals to curb climate change.
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