PANDEF
7 Jan
In the play Femi Osofisan’s objective is the establishment of a good government and a well-ordered society in which the rights of the people and state authority are expressed in accord with the same high principles.
23 Oct
Minister of Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, has clarified his October 3 meeting with Israeli Ambassador to Nigeria, Michael Freeman, dismissing as baseless, insinuations that he expressed support for Israel against Palestine.
27 Sep 2023
Copycat private military companies, polar opposites to Dokubo’s, have mushroomed in the creeks from where they launch their criminal activities.
20 Sep 2023
Renewed controversy and agitation over the recent appointments into the Board and management of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), by President Bola Tinubu, on which state the chief executive of the Commission should come from, is one too many.
25 Aug 2023
Elder statesman and South South Leader, Chief Edwin Clark; representatives of the Pan Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF) and the Ijaw National Congress (INC); ex-agitators and other prominent stakeholders of the Niger Delta region have affirmed that the Presidential Amnesty Program (PAP) has brought relative and sustainable peace for oil and gas activities to thrive in the region.
8 Aug 2023
Apart from direct government involvement in the development of South-South geo-political zone, the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), an interventionist agency of the Federal Government and the Bayelsa, Rivers, Akwa Ibom, Cross River, Edo, Delta...
28 Jul 2023
PAN Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF) is set to deliberate on the state of the nation and recent socio-political developments in the Niger Delta region. The National Publicity Secretary, PANDEF, Dr. Ken Robinson, made this known in a statement, yesterday, in Abuja. Robinson said the forum would also deliberate on the extant situation of federal agencies with…
21 Jul 2023
Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) has reportedly begun remittance of three per cent operational cost recovered from International Oil Companies (IOCs) to the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC).
5 Jul 2023
The Pan Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF), the erstwhile National Publicity Secretary of the defunct New Peoples Democratic Party (nPDP), Prof. Eze Chukwuemeka Eze and others have scored The Guardian high in effective, unbiased and balanced news coverage in the last 40 years.
3 Jul 2023
President of Ijaw National Congress (INC), the umbrella body of the Ijaw worldwide, Prof. Benjamin Okaba, and National Publicity Secretary of Pan Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF), Dr. Ken Robinson, are skeptical about the impact of the recent abolition of the crude oil swap policy, saying it is the same players that will be recycled.
22 May 2023
Two major issues have been topical in the South-South geopolitical zone, otherwise known as the Niger Delta - the zoning of the senate president in the 10th National Assembly to the region by the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and the discordant tunes from the recently reconstituted Board of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC).
18 May 2023
Ongoing controversy around zoning and election of principal officers in the coming 10th National Assembly may affect the long term relationship among ethnic nationalities, operating under Southern Middle Belt Leadership Forum (SMBLF).
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