VANGUARD By Owei Lakemfa STATE visits are state visits. Usually drab affairs with polite speeches, handshakes and some reassurances. It is usually a state affair in which the people are rarely involved. Not so when President Brahim Ghali of the…
THIS DAY The Amnesty Office has warned Niger Delta youths offered scholarship on compassionate grounds to study in universities across the country not to see the gesture as a right, but a rare privilege to enable them equip themselves with…
THIS DAY The Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Godwin Emefiele Monday said he would work with the fiscal authority to pursue a double digit growth rate within the next five years. He said the CBN will further…
PUNCH The Ministry of Niger Delta Affairs on Friday carried out a health enlightenment campaign at the General Hospital, Kiagbodo, Burutu Local Government Area of Delta State, distributing drugs to people living with HIV/AIDS. The ministry also distributed eyeglasses to…
THE NATION They surrendered their firearms to the government under the Amnesty Programme with a pledge to eschew criminality but inside the Niger Delta creeks, the militants run well-coordinated oil theft and illegal refinery empires, posing grave danger to health,…
VANGUARD THE Reformed Niger Delta Avengers, RNDA, a splinter group of the non-operational Niger Delta Avengers, NDA, and a coalition of nine other militant groups in Niger Delta, yesterday, called on President Muhammadu Buhari to initiate mechanism that would see…
THE SUN Since the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) announced November 16, as the date for the Bayelsa State governorship election, the political choreography in the oil-rich South-south state has received fresh vigour. Expectedly, the timetable released by INEC has triggered…
VANGUARD IBADAN—GOVERNORS from the South West geo-political zone will converge in Ibadan, Oyo State to address the security challenges confronting the region. This came as the Arewa Youth Consultative Forum, AYCF, said it is collaborating with stakeholders from the South…
VANGUARD At least 10 persons have been feared dead as a pipeline exploded in Oyibo area of Rivers State. The incident happened yesterday in Kom-Kom community. It was alleged that the oil facility that exploded belongs to the Shell Petroleum…
By: Godknows Boladei Igali After a glittering and lofty life’s journey straddling the twentieth and twenty-first centuries’ world of arts, creativity and public service, Dr. Gabriel Imomotimi Gbaingbain Okara, was on Saturday, June 22, 2019 returned to his place of…