President Muhammadu Buhari has assured Nigerians that he would do everything necessary to secure oil facilities and other government assets in the Niger Delta region.

GOVERNOR Nyesom Wike of Rivers State, yesterday, spoke against hostilities in the Niger Delta region, assuring that governors of the region will support the military to achieve peace in the area.

The Ijaws of Delta State, yesterday, inaugurated the executive of Meinbutus Federated Communities Ogbe-Ijoh, Warri to work with the Federal and State governments to promote peace, unity and eliminate any form of oppression and marginalization.

The narrative of the last election was deliberately made simple to fool the simpleminded: portray Nigeria as a ship heading for the bottom of the ocean unless the captain of the ship is removed because that captain was corrupt, unable to secure the land and the economy was also spiralling out of his control. In the aftermath of that electoral mutiny spurred by the greatest and most ideologically diverse members of the ruling elite since 1960, the captain was removed and anothercaptain put in command. Ever since then however, the worst fears have been realised particularly in the economy, subliminally with security and apparently with the unity of Nigeria. President Goodluck Jonathan was referred to as the “Ijaw Christian”

AT the command performance of “ Little Drops”, a play written by Professor Ahmed Yerima, last Sunday, in commemoration of this year’s International Women’s Day, the Acting Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, Mrs. Ibim Semenitari did not mince words when she declared that ‘she’s using the play as a campaign to bring once more, to national conscience, the anguish and travails of the women, children and people of the oil rich region.’

Niger Delta ex-militants are not behind recent robberies and other forms of criminal acts in Lagos, the Presidential Amnesty Office said yesterday.

Ijaw communities in Delta and Bayelsa states, affected by the recent oil spill from Shell Petroleum Development Company, SPDC ruptured pipelines, have faulted the oil company for saying that a militant group, Niger Delta Avengers, which claimed to have blown up several oil installations in the Niger Delta region, was responsible for the spill.

By Chris Ochayi Abuja – The British Government, weekend expressed readiness to collaborate with the present administration of President Muhammadu Buhari’s to urgently fast tract the development of the Niger Delta Region. British High Commissioner to Nigeria, Ambassador Paul Arkwright gave the assurance when he visited the minister of Niger Delta Affairs Pastor Usani Usani […]

You said the Niger Delta wants self-determination and yet you said you want compensation. Can you be fighting for freedom and asking for compensation at the same time?

I don’t see the difficulty in what we asking for. Nigeria is being governed according to the 1999 Constitution and whatever we are doing, within the law, is based on that Constitution. What we are demanding for, which the same Constitution guarantees, is our right to demand for those things. In terms of the compensation for the destruction of our livelihood, the Nigerian government, in partnership with oil companies, is responsible.

COORDINATOR of Ijaw Monitoring Group, Comrade Joseph Evah in this interview calls for unity of purpose among political leaders of the Niger Delta extraction. He opines that with a common voice, the long expected development of the region may become realistic.

Governor Udom Emmanuel of Akwa Ibom State has said that a re-appraisal of the training programme for ex-militants in the Niger Delta region under the Presidential Amnesty Programme, PAP, would enable them meet the manpower needs of the country.

The EMERGENCE of some of the country’s greatest professionals from the Niger Delta is a pointer to the immense deposit of human resources in the region, Coordinator of the Ijaw Monitoring Group, Comrade Joseph Evah said yesterday.

ABUJA: The Nigerian National Petroleum Company, NNPC, said that gas supply to power plants will improve over the next five weeks, following the massive repair works on ruptured gas pipeline in the Niger Delta region.

The Federal Government has concluded plans to launch the Multi-Stakeholder Trust Fund, MSTF, to fast-track the development of the Niger Delta.

A Niger Delta activist, Mr. Frank Akiefa, yesterday, said the peace and security being experienced in the Niger Delta was a result of the proper handling and management of the amnesty programme by the Special Adviser to the President on Niger Delta and coordinator of the amnesty programme, Mr. Kingsley Kuku.