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By Clifford Christopher SolomonLubriks Construction Company, the contractors for the Trans-KalAbari road project awarded by the Governor of Rivers State Chief Barr. Nyesom Ezebunwo Wike is said to have breached the terms of the lease agreement it had with the people of Degema town, the host community for the project. Degema is one of the Non-Kalabari speaking aboriginal community in the area.In an exclusive interview in Port Harcourt with National Point Newspaper on Wednesday November 10,2021,a concerned indigene of Degema community, Dr. Miyante Agi, picked holes and observed with dismay breaches in the terms of agreement.He said, though he is…

Miracle baby of the Prof Hart Awa family, Comfort Chinaza (Zara) went to church for dedication on Sunday,  14 November, 2021 at the Presbyterian Church of Nigeria (PCN), Okoro nu odu Parish.A lavish reception attended by colleagues, friends and family members, held later at  the University of Port Harcourt Entrepreneurship  Centre, Abuja Park.Professor & Mrs. Hart O. Awa had Zara 18 years after their first child who is already in the medical school.

The Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the ParisAgreement,Recalling Article 2 of the Paris Agreement,Also recalling decisions 3/CMA.1 and 1/CMA.2,Noting decision -/CP.26,1Recognizing the role of multilateralism in addressing climate change and promoting regional and international cooperation in order to strengthen climate action in the context of sustainable development and efforts to eradicate poverty,Acknowledging the devastating impacts of the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic and the importance of ensuring a sustainable, resilient and inclusive global recovery, showing solidarity particularly with developing country Parties,Also acknowledging that climate change is a common concern of humankind, Parties should, when…

No vacant land anywhere on earth, all lands belong to a people either as ancestral homeland or by staying there for ages, law supports this.All lands on earth are attributed to a people by name more than by country name.Thus we have the Bantu and their land in their geographical location, Herero in Zambia, Ga and Ashanti in Ghana, Kikuyu in Kenya, Hausa owing their land in the north, Igbo with their own land in southeast. If anything happens in those lands we call the inhabitants not government, even if we call government they still go for the inhabitants.That reason…

Press Statement26th Anniversary of Ogoni Martyrs: Only Justice to the Ogoni People, Environment can Heal the Wounds*The incident that took place 26 years ago in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, is fresh on our minds and the issues that led to it remain topical and will continue to dominate the political and socio-economic life and discourse in Nigeria and globally until justice is achieved. In solemnity, we remember today the executive murder of a whole generation of the then top leaders of Ogoni ethnic nationality by the Nigerian Government in the course of their search for oil justice under the late…

The President of the Royal Queens of Niger Delta Initiative and wife of the First Military Governor of old River State, Dame (Dr.) Evangelist Josephine Diete-Spiff Esq has called on Christians in Nigeria to support the Church both financially and otherwise by making judicious use of the talents and skills God has deposited in them.The Queen of Twon-Brass kingdom made the call during her investiture as Knight of the Anglican Communion held on Sunday at St. Peter’s Deanery, Ovom in Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital.According to Dame Josephine, her conferment of knighthood means a higher service for God, adding that…

Pan Niger Delta Forum, PANDEF, has reiterated calls for the exoneration of late renowned Playwright and Environmental Activist, Ken Saro-Wiwa, and eight other Ogoni Leaders, who were killed by the Abacha Regime, twenty-six years ago.PANDEF strongly supports the calls for their exoneration, not pardon, and therefore, urges President Muhammadu Buhari to jettison his consideration of granting pardon to the Ogoni Icons. There is no better time for the President to make that pronouncement, than now, on the 26th Memorial of the sadistic killing of the innocent men.It must be accentuated that Ken Saro-Wiwa, and the eight others did not commit…

Gentlemen of the Press,In the 93 years of God’s special Grace of my life, over 70 of which I have relentlessly spent in the struggle for a united, civilised, prosperous and federal Republic of Nigeria, and I have waited for some time in the departure lounge of life, and I owe it to posterity, to speak unalloyed truth to unconscionable powers, and to clarify the position of my people, the Yoruba of the Nigerian state, so that whenever I might be recalled home, it shall be said of me, that I not only did my bit, I indeed said my…

The Ogoni people resident in the United States of America met in Houston, Texas, over the weekend of November 5 to 7 under the auspices of The Movement for the Survival of Ogoni People (MOSOP USA) to evaluate and deliberate on the political, environmental, and social issues affecting us as a people following which the well-attended conference unanimously resolved as follows:1.That the members of MOSOP USA reaffirm her commitment to the peaceful and non-violent struggle of the Ogoni people championed under the under auspices of MOSOP USA for which Ken Saro-Wiwa, Dr. BarinemKiobel, John Kpuinen, Albert Badey, Chief Edward Kobani,…

By Iduozee Efe Paul, BeninThe executive director of the Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN), Dr. Uyi Godwin Ojo, has stressed the need to address lack of equity and fairness in tackling climate change impacts.Dr Uyi also called on African governments and delegates to the CoP26 in Scotland to be resolute in their demand for climate change liability and payments for carbon debts by rich countries.ERA/FoEN, in a press statement issued in Benin City, said, that in recent times, rich countries have showed some appreciable effort to address climate change with a few countries, such as; the USA,…