By Aniema Umoh A Niger Delta activist, Mr Oweilaemi Pereotubo, has called on the Federal Government and multinational oil companies operating in the region to expend their  security votes on the human capital and infrastructural development of the region rather than waste them  on security they cannot guarantee. Pereotubo, a presidential aspirant for Ijaw Youth Council, […]

Gov. Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta on Wednesday called for more synergy among stakeholders in the Niger Delta region in tackling the myriad of security challenges in the area. Okowa made the call when he received the General Officer Commanding (GOC) 6 Division, Nigerian Army, Port Harcourt, Maj.- Gen. Kasimu Abdulkarim and his team in Asaba. […]

Chief Edwin Kiagbodo Clark, 88, lawyer, former Federal Commissioner for Information and senator, in this interview, speaks on several issues afflicting the Niger Delta area and proffers the way forward

When the “greatest democ racy on earth” appears to hesitate in a choice between a demagogue and a competent woman, one knows that signs of a bigger problem have long been ignored.

WHEN President Muhammadu Buhari met, last Tuesday, with Niger Delta leaders at Aso Villa, Abuja, one of the matters he raised at his three-hour closed-door meeting was that there was no assurance that the Pan Niger Delta Forum, PANDEF, led by former Federal Commissioner for Information, Chief Edwin Clark, which swanked about its mandate from militants, could guarantee peace in the region, as the boys struck few days to the meeting.

The Presidency has commenced moves to find lasting peace in the Niger Delta and has announced a seven point programme to guarantee peace in the region and end militancy-induced disruption of oil and gas production by the middle of 2017.

Excited by the successful completion of the educational and vocational pursuits of the ex-agitators from the Niger-Delta region, Vice president Yemi Osinbajo has said that their future was now brighter.

The Niger Delta has come to be associated with a large dose of instability. Armed agitations, insecurity, vandalism of oil installations, kidnapping and even bickering amongst its elders and leaders.

Ijaw youths from across the various clans in the Niger Delta have today staged a massive protest in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State over what they described as the persecution of former President Goodluck Jonathan, his wife Patience and close associates of theirs.

The National Association of Nigeria Students has appealed to youths in the Niger Delta region to lay down their arms in the interest of the country.

AS the federal government mulls its new war strategy code named ‘Crocodile Smile’, a member of Council of Registered Engineers of Nigeria COREN, Misbau Opeyemi Aminu, an engineer, has stated that lack of meaningful development/dearth of infrastructure in the Niger Delta Region has remained a major issue to be tackled by the federal government.

The governments of United States of America and Nigeria at the weekend exchanged views on the ongoing efforts to engage in dialogue with Niger Delta militants and seek an immediate and peaceful resolution to the conflict.

The Nigerian Navy on Wednesday said it would continue to clampdown on militant groups and criminal elements in the Niger Delta.

Former Niger Delta militants, under the Amnesty Programme, have appealed to the Federal Government to pay their three months outstanding stipends.

The Federal government says the major reason that informed its decision to clean up Ogoni land was to address the long years of neglect by successive governments.