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The candidate of the Accord Party in the November 6 governorship election in Anambra State, Dr. Godwin Maduka has vowed to floor other contestants in the election.Dr Maduka, made the vow while addressing a mammoth crowd of  Anambra indigenes living in Asaba.He used the occasion to dismiss the rumours that he was about to collapse his structure into the All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA).Maduka rather vowed to inflict crushing defeat on the APGA candidate, Charles Soludo and other contestants in the election.Maduka said he stood out among the contestants as the only person with the capacity to transform Anambra into…

We are a body of diverse women groups, activists, Community and Opinion Leaders, Intellectuals, Professionals in the Niger  Delta under the aegis of  Wailling women of Niger Delta and burden bearers of the Niger Delta advocating for the development of our region. As Watchers, we are no longer at ease because our people have been taken for granted for too long while those we looked up to have let us down.We make the following representations to our dear President Muhammadu  Buhari the Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.The Niger Delta Development Commission NDDC…

Gov. Douye DiriBayelsa State Governor, Senator Douye Diri, on Wednesday, launched an ICT-based scheme to empower youths in the state.Under the initiative tagged “Diri Digital Entrepreneurship Empowerment Programme (DDEEP),” 8,000 beneficiaries across the eight local government areas of the state would be trained and equipped with information communication and technology skills.Governor Diri said during the launch that youth entrepreneurship and empowerment were key to achieving and sustaining prosperity in the state rather than the usual expectations of handouts from public office holders.A statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr. Daniel Alabrah, quoted the governor as expressing optimism that the DDEEP…

The leadership of the pan-Ijaw group,  the Ijaw National Congress (Worldwide) has received with utter consternation and disbelief a story circulating in the social media, of a purported bill sponsored by 59 members of the House of Representatives, who are of northern extraction with an intent to delete section 162 sub section 2 of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (as amended). The section under reference which has to do with the management of “the Federation Account”, particularly subsection 2 states inter alia:“The President upon the receipt of advice from the Revenue Mobilization Allocation and Fiscal Commission,…

As Bayelsa State celebrates the 10th annual Thanksgiving Day holiday on November 2, 2021, the Senior Special Assistant to State Governor on Tourism, Mr. Piriye Kiyaramo has called on tourism enterprises, particularly artists, to take advantage of the Thanksgiving event to produce quality local souvenirs and other gift items to remember the day.Speaking with travel writers shortly after the annual Thanksgiving Day celebration at the state Ecumenical Centre, Igbogene on Tuesday, Mr.  Kiyaramo reiterated that the annual Thanksgiving holiday provides an excellent opportunity for tour operators and event planners to introduce different tour packages that will attract more visitors to…

Bishop and Pastor Mrs. Moses SogunleAn unbroken journey of 21 years speaks of sustainability, stability and an indication that the journey is on course. For members of Breakthroughs Chapel International, BCI the attainment of that milestone by their general overseer and vision founder, Bishop King Moses Sogunle was enough reason to conduct a series of praise sessions in appreciation to God for backing the vision.Celebrations came to a halt Sunday October 31 at the BCI headquarters in Port Harcourt with an all praise thanksgiving service with friends, associates and well-wishers in attendance.Chief celebrant Bishop Sogunle said God has proven faithful…

Group picture of participantsNigeria’s economy is heavily dependent on the extractive sector and apart from the oil environment, the country is, also blessed with untapped solid minerals, most of which are being extracted and traded illegally. Employment at these two sectors favours able-bodied men while women and women with disabilities who are often displaced by extractive activities,  continually experience marginalization and deprivation with no real records of their plight.As world attention is now beamed on the promotion of inclusion and equitable distribution of opportunities for development as a more sustainable means of improving society, Arden and Newton, a strategy consultancy…

By Ibiba DonPedro Senator Douye Diri, Governor Bayelsa: State All Eyes on him to take actionWhenever it appears as if the matter of the disputed Atala Oil OML 46 has died down, overtaken by news of fresh trouble in a season of daily occurring troubling events in the land, it manages to bob to the surface, defiant. Clearly, the charged matter of the marginal oilfield, Bayelsa State’s prized oil resource possession will neither simmer, nor just fizzle out soon.In the midst of celebrations in the state as the oil and gas rich state with the sobriquet, Glory Of All Lands’,…

THE NIGER DELTA YOUTH COALITION FOR PEACE AND PROGRESS, a Pan-Niger Delta advocacy group salute Mr. President, Mohammadu Buhari, GCFR, for appointing an outstanding and astute industry technocrat, Mele Kolo Kyari, as the Group Managing Director (GMD), of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, the NNPC.From when Mele K. Kyari assumed office as the GMD of NNPC to date, he has left no one in doubt, especially industry watchers, has to where the Corporation is headed.As a very visionary professional with a towering repertoire of the inner workings of the industry; having served in several positions over the years, he hit…

By Clifford Christopher CliffordNational President, Movement for the Survival of Izon Ethnic Nationality in the Niger Delta (MOSIEND), Comrade Kennedy Tonjo West, has bared his mind on certain issues around the Presidential Amnesty Program which late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua painstakingly put together to restore peace in the once troubled region.The MOSIEND leader congratulated Col. Milland Dikio rtd on  his  reappointment for a second tenure and commended the federal government for the reappointment but, with some misgiving.The Presidential Amnesty Programme is a security programme that is meant to cater for 30,000 ex-freedom fighters who on their own volition, submitted their…