Following the gruesome murder of four Army officers and 13 soldiers in the Okuama community, Ughelli South council area of Delta state, the apex youth bodies of the Ijaw and Urhobo ethnic nationalities, on Thursday met in Yenagoa, Bayelsa state to…
The Ijaw Youth Council ,IYC, Worldwide, has again called on President Bola Tinubu not to make the mistake of appointing non-Ijaw as the Coordinator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme, PAP, noting that PAP is not like Ministry of Niger Delta,…
The umbrella body of Ijaw youths worldwide, the Ijaw Youth Council (IYC), has accused the Delta State Governor, Sheriff Oborevwori, of politically strangulating and suffocating the Ijaw ethnic nationality in the state in his six months reign in office. IYC…
Ijaw Youth Council Worldwide has called on all international oil companies operating in the Niger Delta region to relocate their headquarters back to the region, just as it puts the Federal Government and governors of the South-South geo-political zone on…
THE SUN Ijaw youths have expressed their anger at the unseriousness of South-South politicians nursing ambitions to run in the 2023 presidential election in the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) and the All Progressives Congress (APC). The group has also commended…
SUN NEWS Ijaw youths worldwide have described as “exceptional” and “a step in the right direction” the decision of Governor Douye Diri to approach the state House of Assembly for a N30 billion loan to kick start the Nembe-Brass road…
THE GUARDIAN Former President, Goodluck Jonathan and Founder/President of Belemaoil Producing Limited, Mr. Tein Jack-Rich, have asked oil operators in the Niger Delta region to impact on local communities by bringing succour to their lives. They made the call weekend…
THE GUARDIAN Ijaw Youths Council (IYC) Worldwide has lauded the reappointment of Amina Mohammed as the United Nations Deputy Secretary-General, tasking her on the conservation of the Niger Delta wetland, rated as the third-largest in the world. The council, in…
THE SUN The Ijaw Youths Council (IYC) Worldwide has carpeted the Minister of State for Petroleum, Timipre Sylva, for not doing enough to protect the interest of the Niger Delta region in the N621.2 billion road projects to be undertaken…
THIS DAY Ijaw youths from the nine states of the Niger Delta region have warned President Muhammadu Buhari not to test the resolve of the people of the region over the ‘deliberate neglect and exclusion’ of the area in infrastructural…