The Niger Delta Support Group (NIDSG) has called on the Federal and state governments to declare an economic state of emergency in the Niger Delta region, noting that poverty is the highest level of insecurity that threatens the people of the region.

The Buhari led administration introduced the New Vision for the Niger-Delta which encompasses robust solutions, targets and initiatives aimed at ensuring that the people of the Niger-Delta benefit maximally from the region’s oil wealth.

THE 21st Century Youths of Nigeria for Restructuring has put on hold its plan to attack important infrastructure in Abuja and Lagos, following the intervention of elders, leaders and stakeholders of Niger Delta.

The Niger Delta Support Group (NIDSG) has said that the immediate restructuring of the country from its current unsustainable unitary system to a workable fiscal federation with each state having control of its resources is paramount as the 2019 general election approaches.

IJAW Youths Council, IYC, has said it would not allow 2019 general election in Niger Delta if Shell Exploration and Production Company, SNEPCO, fails to reverse alleged relocation of its logistics base from Rivers State to Lagos.

SAMPSON Funpuwei, ex-Niger Delta agitator, has appealed to his colleagues, who hitherto were planning to go on a massive protest march in parts of the Niger Delta region on the basis of what they described as the high handedness of the Special Adviser to the President on Niger Delta Affairs and coordinator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme, Professor Charles Quaker Dokubo, to give peace a chance by discontinuing the move.

Niger Delta youths within the operating areas of Sterling Energy Exploration Company, SEEPCO, and British Oil and Gas Limited, under the aegis of Ex-Agitators Forum, yesterday, faulted the allegations levelled against the two oil companies by the National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, NUPENG.

The Speaker Bayelsa State House of Assembly, Mr Konbowei Benson, says the neglect of the Niger Delta region by successive administrations in the country is due to ineffective representation by legislators from the region.

MR Kenedy Tonjo-West has said the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) does not stand a chance in the forth coming 2019 general elections in the Niger Delta region.

NIGER DELTA campaigners, on the platform of 21st Century Youths of Niger Delta and Agitators with Conscience, who called off the subsisting seven-month ceasefire with the Federal Government penultimate Wednesday, rescinded its decision, weekend.

The Coalition of South South/South East Youths for Buhari has vowed to ensure the reelection of President Mohammed Buhari, insisting that Buhari has done exceedingly well for Nigeria.

Niger Delta agitators, under the aegis of Niger Delta Musketeers, have issued a 21 days ultimatum to Chevron Nigeria Limited to re-classify all VTP5/OTP2 and VTP6 trainees, as they have declared Operation Black September on all Chevron facilities in the Niger Delta.

Our children now cough. Some have eye and skin problems; in fact, there are different kinds of illnesses in town

As the world commemorates the 2018 International Day for the Conservation of  Mangrove Ecosystems today, Niger Delta state governments have been tasked on the need to create a Coastal Areas Development Agency, COADA, to specifically fast track the sustainable management of coastal communities whose homelands and livelihoods are at the verge of extinction across the country.

In a bid to promote creativity and the Niger Delta rich cultural heritage among youths, Miss. Rita Ojo has said that the 2018 Niger Delta Fashion and Design Week (NDFDW 2018), will open up business potentials that will facilitate development in the region.