By Etop Ekanem Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State has advised aggrieved Ijaw of Gbaramatu Kingdom and Itsekiri in the Escravos area of Warri South-West Local Government Area to sustain dialogue to achieve a win-win outcome with the Federal Government, over pending demands. In an earlier conference, the Gbaramatu Kingdom in a statement by its […]

By Jimitota Onoyume Chairman Itsekiri Bible translator, Deacon Stephen Ejueyitsi Aganbi, has passed on at the age of 99 years at his residence in Koko, headquarters, Warri North local government area, Delta state. A statement made available to newsmen in Warri signed by Mr Felix Aganbi said the late Aganbi, a London trained Lawyer was […]

Itsekiri Regional Development Council, IRDC, and other parties in a move to open a proposed bid for building projects in Itsekiri oil and gas producing impacted communities under the Global Memorandum of Understanding, GMoU, between Chevron Nigeria Limited, Itsekiri Oil and Gas Producing/Impacted communities and Delta State government have been urged to put the matter on hold.

Itsekiri Regional Development Committee, IRDC, on Monday, began the process for the award of new housing, hospitals, roads and jetties’ projects, with a bid opening ceremony.

A prominent community leader in Warri mainland and former member Delta state Advisory Council on the Prerogative of Mercy, Prince  Churchill Oki has enjoined various ethnic groups in the old Warri province and the entire state to rally support for   Chief Bernard Okumagba to succeed as Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC.  Oki  who is […]

Rights activist, Chief Rita Lori-Ogbebor, has faulted what she termed the sidelining of Itsekiri ethnic group in the appointment of  Managing Director of Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, and Chairman of the board of the commission, describing the action as against the Act establishing the NDDC.

The Nigeria Police Warri Area Commander, ACP Mohammed Garba, has been commended for the return of over 150 indigenes of Ugbeogungun community, an Itsekiri settlement, in Warri South-West Local Government Area of Delta State to their homeland.

Itsekiri Progress Club, IPC, a platform of prominent Itsekiri, has urged governor Ifeanyi Okowa to complete the Trans Warri-Ode Itsekiri road linking the oil-rich city with the ancestral home of Itsekiri nation, Ode Itsekiri.

The people of oil rich Ogidigben community in Warri South West Local Government Area of Delta State, has lamented the alleged abandonment of the Ogidigben Central Hospital, by both the State Government and oil companies operating in the area, saying that several persons have died due to lack of medical equipment and doctors in the hospital.

ITSEKIRI ethnic nationality has called on the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to comply with an Appeal Court judgment in suit No CA/B/482M/18 directing it to revert to the 10— ward structure in Warri South Local Government Area of Delta State.