THE NATION A don, Prof. Ambily Etekpe, has warned that no fewer than 105 coastal communities in Bayelsa State may go into extinction in the next 30 years if nothing is done to halt the rampaging effects of ocean surges.…
THE NATION The pan-Ijaw group, the Ijaw National Congress (INC) Worldwide, has rejected the three or five per cent passed by the National Assembly in the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) for Host Communities Development Trust Fund. President, INC, Prof. Benjamin…
PRESS STATEMENT BY THE IJAW NATIONAL CONGRESS (INC) ON THE RECENT HAPPENINGS IN IJAWLAND AND THE NIGER DELTA REGION, June 2, 2021 The Ijaw National Congress (INC) has watched with concern the recent happenings in Ijawland in particular and the Niger…
THE GUARDIAN Interim Administrator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP), Col. Milland Dixon Dikio (rtd.) has appealed to the newly inaugurated leadership of the Ijaw National Congress (INC) to adopt new approach in its agitation to attract development to the…
THE NATION The newly-elected President of the Ijaw National Congress (INC), Prof. Benjamin Okaba, has dedicated his victory to God, saying it was neither the quality of his manifesto nor money that made him win the election. Okaba defeated three…
The remains of the late former President of the Ijaw National Congress (INC), Prof. Kimse Okoko, were on Saturday interred amidst glowing tributes in his Obunagha country home in the Yenagoa Local Government Area of Bayelsa State. Okoko, who was…
THE LIBERATOR The entire Ijaw Nation has been thrown into deep suspense following the indefinite postponement of the Ijaw National Congress, INC, supplementary election. It would be recalled that the Ijaw National Congress, the apex sociocultural group in Ijaw Nation…
LIBERATOR Dr. Benedict Binebai, Head of Department, HOD, Theatre Arts, Niger Delta University, NDU, Wilberforce Island, Amassoma in Bayelsa State has emerged chairman of the Ijaw National Congress, INC Electoral Committee. Dr. Binebai’s emergence as chairman of the electoral committee…
The Bayelsa State Government has condemned in strong terms the disruption of the National Convention òf the Ijaw National Congress by hoodlums in Yenagoa on Saturday night while counting of votes was going on. The Commissioner for Information and Orientation,…
The Interim Steering Committee of the Ijaw National Congress, (INC) wishes to express great regret at the act of invasion of the Ijaw House, Yenagoa in the evening of Saturday, 29th June, 2019 by some hoodlums. This led to the…