THIS DAY In shocking volte-face that jolted the entire Niger Delta region last week, Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Senator Godswill Akpabio, in what apparently amounted to blaming his boss, President Buhari, for the inexplicable delay in inaugurating the NDDC…
THE SUN The Ijaw National Congress (INC) has said President Buhari should not blame Ijaw and Niger Delta leaders if the boiling anger in the region snowballed into crisis. The group also raised the alarm over an alleged plot to…
VANGUARD NEWS A civil society organization, Niger Delta Integrity Group (NDIG), has reacted to advised President Muhammadu Buhari to ignore a suit filed by Niger Delta activist, Rita Lori-Ogbebor, at the Federal High Court, Abuja, seeking to stop the inauguration…
PUNCH NEWS The President of the Ijaw National Congress, Prof. Benjamin Okaba, has expressed dismay that the Niger Delta Development Commission has been operating without a substantive board since 2016. Okaba stated this on Saturday during a live radio interview…
THE SUN Ex-agitators under the Third Phase Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP) have called on President Muhammadu Buhari to confirm the appointment of Col Milland Dixon Dikio (retd) as the substantive coordinator of PAP. Rising from their emergency meeting over the…
THE NATION President, Ijaw National Congress (INC), Prof. Benjamin Okaba, is angry over the content of the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) just signed into law by President Muhammadu Buhari. He, like many Nigerians of Niger Delta origin, is particularly distraught…
THIS DAY AAmidst growing tension in the Niger Delta region, Nseobong Okon-Ekong recounts how the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Senator Godswill Obot Akpabio, has serially reneged on his promised dates to conclude the forensic audit of the Niger Delta…
THE NATION The Commander of the Joint Task Force (JTF) in the Niger Delta codenamed ‘Operation Delta Safe’, Rear Admiral, Aminu Hassan, Chief of Defence Staff Gen. Lucky Irabor and Ijaw National Congress (INC) President Prof. Benjamin Okaba, among others,…
PUNCH NIGERIA The Conference of Presidents-General of Niger Delta Ethnic Nationalities has expressed condemnation for the Indigenous People of Biafra for hitting at elder statesman and Ijaw national leader, Edwin Clark, over his position that the region is not part…
PUNCH NEWS The Ijaw National Congress has said it will not be able to guarantee peace in the Niger Delta over the decision of the National Assembly to retain the three per cent proposed for host communities in the harmonised…