No oil bloc, election in 2019 if Nigeria is not restructured – Niger Delta group
By Anthony Ogbonna A Niger Delta group, Niger Delta Young Leaders Stakeholders, NDYLS, has backed the call for the restructuring of Nigeria, warning that there would be no oil blocs to allocate and explore, neither would there be General Election in the region come 2019 if the country is not restructured.
NNYM tasks FG on sincerity over N-Delta issues
NDOKWA youths, under the aegis of Ndokwa National Youths Movement, NNYM, yesterday, described the alleged insincerity of the Federal Government in its dealings with issues affecting the Niger Delta as an invitation to resumption of hostilities in the oil-rich region.
No going back on illegal refiners’ deal —FG
The Federal Government, yesterday, hinted that it is not going back on its plans for illegal crude oil refiners in the Niger Delta, stating that it was working assiduously to ensure that the initiative comes to fruition.
Criminality has reduced in N-Delta —DIG Inyang
Deputy Inspector-General of Police in Charge of Training and Development, Mr Emmanuel Inyang, yesterday, said that criminality in the Niger Delta region has dropped drastically in the last two months.
Outburst against Osinbajo: Bini, Itsekiri, Urhobo leaders tackle Dokubo – Asari
These visitations embarked by the vice president are needed to build confidence to enable it to carry its laudable programmes for the region
Youths disrupt NDDC’s forum with contractors, civil society groups
YOUTHS of Niger Delta, yesterday, disrupted a special session convened by the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, to hear allegations of corruption levelled against the commission by some contractors.
Stop visiting Ijaw land, Asari Dokubo tells Osinbajo
Is there anything to appraise in the Buhari led government? What is there to appraise? Can you multiply zero? If you multiply zero, what would it give you?
Niger Delta blueprint out in May — FG
The Federal Government, yesterday, said that the blueprint for the Niger Delta, designed to pursue the development of the region and end militancy, will be ready in about four weeks time.
Time to revisit Alaibe’s proposed Niger Delta Master Plan
The Niger Delta Master Plan unveiled by the administration of former president, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, was perhaps the first serious attempt by any government to move away from the tokenism that has characterized interventions in the region said to produces the nation’s wealth. Before then, there hadn’t been any clear-cut policy on how to permanently and satisfactorily address the problems of the region.
FG okays new package for Niger-Delta
The Presidency has finally come out with a bumper package aimed at accelerating the return of peace to the troubled Niger Delta region and ensure steady production of oil, Nigeria’s biggest foreign exchange earner, and gas, the badly-needed feedstock for the nation’s power generating plants.
Commendable mindset change on the Niger Delta
When Vice President Yemi Osinbajo commenced his tours of Niger Delta communities in January this year, most sceptical observers saw them as just another round of jamborees by the Federal Government to buy time and sustain the current relative calm which pervades the oil-rich Niger Delta. The area had, hitherto, been wracked by a riot of militant attacks of crude oil infrastructure.
