Niger Delta

The Rabble-Rouser Called Asari Dokubo And State Failure

The Rabble-Rouser Called Asari Dokubo And State Failure

June 26, 2023 3:40 am

In every society, there exists a group of individuals who have inadvertently sworn to be nuisances. Rather than contribute to the growth and betterment of their immediate environment, they chose to become rabble-rousers and painfully stupid people in their thoughts and actions.

For many years, the self-promoting Niger Delta militant, notoriously known by Nigerians as Asari Dokubo, has remained a nuisance to Nigerian society. Besides his nuisance value, no sane person takes him seriously. Many years ago, he rode on the genuine sentiments of the people of the Niger Delta, whose lands were being decimated by the activities of …

Dysfunctional Nigerian Refineries And The Fulani Domination

Dysfunctional Nigerian Refineries And The Fulani Domination

June 5, 2023 2:51 am

It betrays every iota of common sense to think that a country with a substantial part of its earth’s crust filled with crude oil is currently facing an existential threat due to a man-made energy crisis. Despite being one of Africa’s biggest oil producers, Nigeria is today, unable to refine a drop of crude oil after over six decades of oil exploration. While ‘everyday Nigerians’ continue to groan under the harsh realities that are a result of this abnormality, what they must now understand is that the crux of their problem is tied to a particular oligarchy that has sworn …

Senate Summons Niger Delta Minister Over Alleged ₦480B Fraud

Senate Summons Niger Delta Minister Over Alleged ₦480B Fraud

October 20, 2022 6:10 am

The Nigerian Senate has summoned the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Mr. Umana Okon Umana, over an alleged plot to divert ₦480 billion intervention fund which belongs to the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) and domiciled it in the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, without the approval of the National Assembly.

The Minister has been told to appear before the Senate Committee on Ethics, Privileges and Public Petitions, chaired by Senator Ayo Akinyelure (PDP Ondo Central) upon receipt of petition being investigated by the panel.

According to the petition, Umana has perfected plans to seek Presidential approval to collect the …

Oil Theft Obi Calls On Petroleum Sector Managers To Resign

Oil Theft: Obi Calls On Petroleum Sector Managers To Resign

October 13, 2022 5:53 am

Amidst the ongoing controversies around oil theft, the Presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Mr. Peter Obi, had called for the resignation of top managers of the petroleum sector over reported large-scale crude oil theft in the Niger Delta.

The former Anambra State governor made this known yesterday while speaking at the 52nd annual Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN) conference in Lagos, yesterdays, on the topic, ‘Accounting As A Requisite For Sustainable Governance,’ according to him, it was expected that the hierarchy of Nigeria’s oil management bureaucracy would immediately quit after the discovery of the oil …

Experts Seek Strategies To Revive Niger Delta Mangroves

Experts Seek Strategies To Revive Niger Delta Mangroves

May 16, 2021 1:47 pm

The Federal Ministry of Environment has begun deliberations on the restoration of Mangroves in the Niger Delta region.

International experts in the sector, at the instance of the ministry, converged in Abuja to exchange lessons on restoring mangroves in Ogoniland and to also deliberate on ways to improve the livelihoods of communities in the region.

A statement by the Director of Press, Ministry of Environment, Saghir el Mohammed said the experts shared global experiences and how it can be applied in Ogoniland.

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The statement said the Minister of …

APC Would Take Over N’Delta In 2023 - Omo-Agege

APC Would Take Over N’Delta In 2023 – Omo-Agege

April 26, 2021 1:11 am

The Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege yesterday boasted that his party the All Progressives Congress (APC) would take control of not just Delta State but the South-South geopolitical zone in 2023.

The Delta-born Senator went further to add that he had no doubt that the dominance of politics in Delta State and South-South by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) was finally going to end at the general election come 2023.

Omo-Agege made these comments at Illah while fielding questions from journalists shortly after inspecting the ongoing rehabilitation work on the Asaba-Illah Road, which according to him, is …

Buhari Gives Reasons For Planned Reopening Of Land Borders

Niger Delta Group Renews Hostility, Write Buhari

October 11, 2020 11:29 am

An Ijaw Rights advocates group drawn from the nine States of the Niger Delta region under the Movement For The Survival of the Izon Ethnic Nationality in the Niger Delta (MOSIEND), on Sunday sent a warning letter to the Federal Government and Governors from the region to renegotiate the agreement reached on the peaceful exploration of oil and gas resources in the region.

According to MOSIEND, ‘There is a rising anger in the region over reported issues of the free and direct rights to sell and mine Gold to the Central Bank of Nigeria by Zamfara State, and the people

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Insecurity: Ijaw Youths Push For Security Outfit In Niger Delta

Leave Us Out Of Your Maps – Ijaw Youths Warn IPOB

May 17, 2020 6:04 am

Apex youth organisation in the Niger Delta, the Ijaw Youth Council (IYC), has told Biafra and Oduduwa secessionists to leave the Ijaw nation out of what they call ‘their utopian republics’.

Chairman, IYC Transition Implementation Committee, Kennedy Olorogun, said this on behalf of the organisation on Saturday.

According to him, the Ijaw nation does not need to be annexed to other imagined ethnonational territories.

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He said the IYC nation is currently confronted with the renewed quest for nationalism within the Nigerian geopolitical arrangement.

Olorogun noted that the situation

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Dokubo

Ex-Militant Leaders React Over Sack Of Charles Dokubo

February 29, 2020 1:10 pm

Some ex-Militant leaders from the nine states of the Niger Delta region have described as “expected” and “commendable” the sack of the Coordinator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme, Professor Charles Dokubo.

They said the sack by President Mohammed Buhari, showed the present administration has the interest of the region at heart.

Buhari, in a statement issued by the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr Femi Adesina, had also ordered that a Caretaker Committee be set up to review the programme and take over its running henceforth.

Read Also: Buhari Suspends Dokubo As Chairman Of Amnesty Programme

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Niger Delta

Obasanjo’s Mistake Of Including Imo, Abia In Niger Delta

February 5, 2020 6:07 am

The Director, Institute for Niger Delta Studies (INDS) of the Niger Delta University, Prof. Ambily Etekpe, has said former President of Nigeria, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, made grave mistake when he included Imo, Abia and Ondo States as member states when he created the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC).

Prof. Etekpe explained further that it is an unarguable fact that Imo, Abia and Ondo States are crude oil producing states but that they do not fall into the geographic region referred to as Niger Delta, and therefore, should not be benefiting from funds specifically earmarked for the development of the region.

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