Archives for November, 2014 - Page 3
NIGERIA’S POLITICS OF ENDORSEMENT
Zik Gbemre
It is really sad to see how many things happen in this country which ranges from the strange to the absurd and from the weird to the ridiculous, to the extent that often times, such things have become the norm and brazenly made acceptable for all and sundry to swallow. Nigeria is a place where ...
Rights Activist wants Ijaw Militants Disarmed
By Our Correspondent
A legal luminary and Human Rights activist, Mr Robinson Ariyo, has bemoaned the proliferation of dangerous arms allegedly in possession of Ijaw youths in Delta State.
Barrister Robinson Ariyo
Ariyo, who spoke in his chambers in Warri, told journalists that the recent threat by the Ijaw people of Gbaramatu to President Goodluck Jonathan, to ...
WHAT IS THE FUTURE OF NIGERIAN CONTENT LAW IF INDIGENOUS COMPANIES ARE NOT ENCOURAGED? – NDIMRC
NIGER DELTA INDIGENOUS MOVEMENT FOR RADICAL CHANGE (NDIMRC)
Offices: Oporoza, Headquarters of Gbaramatu Kingdom, Warri South-West L.G.A., Delta State.
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Sani Abacha Expressway, Yenogoa, Bayelsa State, Nigeria
E-mail: ndimovement4radicalchange@gmail.com
OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT GOODLUCK EBELE JONATHAN, GCFR
His Excellency,
Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan GCFR
President, Commander-in-Chief of the
Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria
Presidential Villa, Aso-Rock
Abuja, Nigeria.
His Excellency,
WHAT IS THE FUTURE OF ...
Governor Dickson Presents 2015 Budget to Speaker
Bayelsa State Governor, Hon. Seriake Dickson (left) presenting the 2015 budget tagged (Budget of Completion ) to the Speaker of the State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Konbowei Benson (right) at the Assembly complex, Yenagoa.
OBASANJO: CRUCIFY HIM! CRUCIFY HIM!! BUT THE (IAC)
CHIEF BOBSON GBINIJE
Our global village is being continuously bedraggled and bemused by conflictual vortexes and counter-vortexes, and it has now become fundamentally imperative more than ever before to institutionalize instrumental actions of crises management and schism resolution to backpedal mankind from the epicenter of this anarchical entropy.
We need consultative initiatives, all-embracing strategic repositioning and synergistic ...
Upcoming Events
Compiled by Ogechi Ojukwu
Chinyere Weds Lawrence, December 4,13
The wedding ceremony between Peace Chinyere Anyaegbu and Engr. Lawrence Osiota has been fixed for Saturday, December 13, 2014 at Assembly of God church, Effurun Branch 1, No. 18, oil mill Road, off Alegbo primary school,off P.T.I Road, by 10:ooam prompt. Reception follows immediately at Trade fair Ground, ...
EPZ: Okorare Calls On Ijaws, Itsekiris to Give Peace a Chance
By Tejiri Ebikeme
Former Chairmanship aspirant for Ughelli North Local Government Area, Chief Dave Okorare has called on the Itsekiris and the Ijaws to exercise moderation on their strong stance on the name and whatever may be their annoyance and grievances against the EPZ project and its inauguration.
In a statement, the Warri based businessman said Delta ...
Ogbuagu Blames Parents for High Rate of Crime in Nigeria
By Francis Sadhere
Former Delta State Education Commissioner, Dr. (Mrs.) Veronica Ogbuagu has blamed the high rate of crime in the country to lack of good parental upbringing.
Dr. (Mrs.) Veronica Ogbuagu (2nd Right) Handing Over the various books she donated to the Confraternity of Catholic Christian Mothers, Diocese of Warri at the occasion.
Dr. Ogbuagu stated ...
BOTCHED EPZ COMMISSIONING; UGBORODO INDIGENES COUNT LOSSES
Our Correspondent
Traditional rulers, community leaders and indigenes of Ugborodo community in Warri South-West LGA of Delta state have expressed disappointments over President Goodluck Jonathan’s withdrawal to perform the ground breaking of the multi-billion dollars Export Processing Zone (EPZ) project earlier scheduled for yesterday at Ogidigben, describing the decision as shocking.
The Eghare-Aja (traditional Prime Minister of ...
2015: VOTE OBORO AGAIN
EPZ commissioning: IYC warns against bloodshed
Ijaw Youth Council, IYC said it did not want bloodshed between the Ijaw and Itsekiri in Delta State over the Federal Government-owned Export Processing Zone, EPZ, project, now renamed Delta Gas City.
In a statement by IYC spokesman, Mr. Eric Omare, the council called on President Jonathan, Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan, and other Niger-Delta leaders to, “as ...
EPZ: Jonathan Bows To Pressure, Calls Off Commissioning
President Goodluck Jonathan has bowed to pressure and called off the commissioning of the $16bn Delta Gas City project in Delta State scheduled to hold today following a threat by the Ijaw of Gbaramatu kingdom to unleash violence if he went ahead.
Some Gbaramatu youths protesting the proposed EPZ groundbreaking at Oporoza recently
Reports that the ...
NNPC/Chevron JV Donates Medical Equipment to Delta State
By Tejiri Ebikeme
The NNPC/Chevron Joint Venture has donated medical equipment to the Delta State Government to support efforts to contain outbreak of communicable diseases in the state. The donation comes on the heels of the donation of a Ford Transit ambulance to the State last September.
Mr. Dan Agofode (r) of Chevron handing over the ...
UPCOMING EVENT; TRADITIONAL MARRIAGE CEREMONY BETWEEN EFE & SIMON HOLDS DEC. 14, 2014
Come Sunday 14th December 2014, all roads will lead to McDermott Road, Warri, Opposite GKS, for the traditional marriage ceremony between Miss Efe Macaulay and Mr. Simon Enaturu by 11am prompt.
Crisis Looms Over EPZ Project… As Gbaramatu Community Vows to Fight with Last Drop of Blood
By Francis Sadhere
The Ijaw Gbaramatu of Warri South West Local Government Area of Delta State today vowed to stop the groundbreaking ceremony of EPZ project scheduled for Friday November 14, 2014 by President Goodluck Jonathan.
The Angry Ijaw Gbaramatu Protesters Protesting in Oporoza, Warri South-West Local Government Area of Delta State.
They are protesting their exclusion ...