VANGUARD NEWS Ijaw Youth Council, IYC, Worldwide, has warned the Federal Government not to scrap the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, or merge it with the Ministry of Niger Delta Affairs, noting that such would trigger crisis in the oil…
THE NATION An offshore rig under construction by Shelf Oil and Gas Drilling Company Nigeria Limited has exploded in the Atlantic Ocean close to Sangana, Brass Local Government Area, Bayelsa State. It was gathered that the explosion, which occurred at…
THE VANGUARD The House of Representatives has abandoned the probe it initiated into capital projects by Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, in Abia, Akwa Ibom, Bayelsa, Cross River, Delta, and Rivers states. This is as Ndokwa National Youth Movement, NNYM,…
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 SUN The Niger Delta Movement for Development (NDMD) has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to ensure full implementation of the forensic audit report and prosecute persons such as contractors and politicians indicted for diverting “our commonwealth.” It also flayed the…
NATIONAL TRIBUNE The Ijaw Youths Council (IYC) Worldwide has promised to continue to provide security for lives and properties while appealing to oil companies operating in the Niger Delta region to patronize the new aviation route to the Bayelsa International…
LIBERATOR NEWS …Says Ijaws Worldwide is watching Obaseki and his people Ijaw Youths in Western Zone, comprising Delta, Edo and Ondo states have fumed over the alleged persistent attack by Obazuma community on Ikoro community, an Ijaw settlement in Edo…
THE NATION A recent ministerial parley with Niger Delta stakeholders, including ex-militants, may have doused the tension in the region. Southsouth Bureau Chief, BISI OLANIYI reports that the surprise visit of the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Senator Godswill Akpabio,…
VANGUARD Ijaw youths, under the aegis of Ijaw Youth Council, IYC, have described the allocation of three and five percents, respectively as an equity stake in the Host Community Trust Fund by the Senate and House of Representatives in the…
THE NATION It was a reminder of sorts when protesters led by the Ijaw Youths Council (IYC) Worldwide dramatically blocked the Mbiama section of the East-West Road to demand that the Federal Government should constitute and inaugurate a substantive board…