If we want to earn a living, we definitely have to depend on government.I think there is nothing wrong in traditional institutions being financed with public funds because other institutions like Customs, Prisons and Immigrations are adequately funded.

By Dayo Benson, Political Editor Ahead of Sunday October 4 expiry date of federal government’s amnesty offer to Niger Delta militants, there have been mixed feelings over its success or otherwise.

By Jimitota Onoyume RESPONSE of militants in Rivers State to the presidential amnesty has been very positive. A day after it was pronounced in Abuja , a dreaded militant leader, Mr. Solomon Ndigbare aka Osama Bin Laden was the first to embrace the exercise in the state. He surrendered his arms before Mr. Mike Okiro […]

By  Emma Arubi WHEN it became obvious that militant activities in the long neglected Niger Delta region were fast bringing the entire economy of the nation to a dangerous precipice, the Federal government led by President Yar ‘Adua proclaimed amnesty to militants of all shades with a welfare package designed to rehabilitate, re-orientate and re-integrate […]

By Samuel Oyadongha, Yenagoa BARELY 48 hrs to the expiration of the presidential amnesty which sought to end the armed insurrection in the Niger Delta, all the recognized militant camps in Bayelsa State have disarmed while other pockets of unknown groups masquerading as freedom fighters in the troubled swamp of the state are also rushing […]