30 years old SOBOMA JACKRICH aka Egberipapa, was a former militant Commander in the Kalabari axis of Rivers State. He was picked up by the Joint Task Force precisely on December 28 last year at the palace of the traditional ruler of Kalabari Kingdom in Buguma, where he had gone for a peace talk with the monarch.

*JTF should remain in N-Delta to fight pirates *We’ don’t need Henry Okah to execute the project *There’s nobody like Jomo Gbomo By Emma Amaize, Regional Editor, South South HIS name is Mr. Victor Ebikabowei Ben, a marine expert, but you are not likely to know him by that taxonomy. Call him Boyloaf and the […]

People should have concern for their countrymen if they are in privileged positions; they should begin to help Nigerians and create a level-playing field so that more Nigerians would be uplifted to the overall benefit of the people of this country.

There’s no doubt about it: the Rotary Club is a pack of leaders, and from amongst these leaders has emerged a new leader for the Rotary club of Lekki Phase 1. On Saturday the 26th of September 2009, Dr. Josiah Ebhomenye-a man of no mean achievement and reputation as well as the Managing Director of Research International Market Trends, a foremost market research organization in Nigeria_ was installed as the 3rd president of the Club at the Golden Gate Restaurant, Ikoyi Lagos amongst friends, family and other notable Nigerians.

Will Bayelsa’s hard-won peace survive after the presidential amnesty to militants who in the last four years have turned the mangrove creeks into a theatre of vicious conflict?