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By Iduozee Paul, BeninThe Edo State chairman, Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Comrade Sunday Osayande and his Trade Union Congress (TUC) counterpart, Comrade Marshall Ohue, have cautioned Governor Godwin Obaseki not to allow Edo State Broadcasting Service (EBS) to die.The duo gave the charge in Benin city at the 2021 May Day event with the theme, “COVID-19, Social and Economic Crisis: Challenges For Job, Social Protection and People’s Welfare.” They urged the state government to review undue and punitive transfer and reduction in ranks and grades of workers in the broadcast establishment.Comrade Osayande stated: “We wish to bring to your notice…

My dear Prof. Benjamin Ogele Okaba:I wish to congratulate you, my brother, on your victory at the recently concluded election into the most important office of Ijaw National Congress (INC). I wish you and your team a successful tenure.To my teeming supporters from all over the world who invested time, funds and prayers in my aspiration to serve the Ijaw Nation as President of INC, please accept my heartfelt gratitude. I also want to extend appreciation to the various delegates, elders and leaders of thought who believed in me and cheerfully gave me their votes.The outcome of the election is…

Izon Egberi a Think Tank of Ijaw professionals in diverse fields has called on Professor Benjamin Okaba, President of the Ijaw National Congress, INC and the National Executive Council, NEC to quickly mobilise Ijaw professionals in diverse sectors in Nigeria and abroad to structure a response to the huge developmental challenges that confront the Ijaw ethnic nationality. This is against ongoing reality of frightening Nigeria wide insecurity and economic pressures.The call is contained in congratulatory message to Prof Okaba and the INC NEC which was inaugurated Friday May 14,2021 at Ijaw Wari Yenagoa, Bayelsa State. The INC is the apex…

The Ijaw Elders Forum (IEF), Lagos felicitate with the new Executive Council of INC led by Prof Benjamin O Okaba and the entire Ijaw Nation for the peaceful and credible election that produced a generally accepted leadership for the foremost socio-cultural organization of the Ijaw Nation. We congratulate our Vice Chairman Chief Atamuno Atamuno on his election as Vice President 1 of INC Worldwide.We acknowledge the Electoral Committee led by HRH Prof Dagogo Fubara for navigating through the initial difficulties to produce a credible and fair election widely accepted by all parties. The Ijaw Nation owe you and your team…

The Patriotic Ijaw Leaders of Thought (PILOT) join other well-meaning and patriotic Ijaws around the world to congratulate the newly elected president of the INC, Prof. Ben Ogele Okaba and the entire National Executive Council on their victory at the just concluded elections. Your victory is a victory for all Ijaws as this signals a new beginning and a restart for us as a people. We also want to state from the onset that ours is not just a congratulatory messages, but a wake-up call for the new INC leadership to begin to envision an Ijaw nation that is ready…

The Izon Egberi Organisation(IEO), a “Think Tank” of Ijaw professionals worldwide, seeks to join all Ijaws and well-meaning organisations in Nigeria and around the world, to congratulate the newly sworn in President of the Ijaw National Congress (INC) Prof. Benjamin Ogele Okaba, and all members of the National Executive Council on their electoral successes, to seek to serve our beloved nation beginning May 14, 2021, which will go down in history as a truly inspiring inauguration day for the Ijaw Nation.It is with pride that we salute the NEC for your persistence and determination to want to serve the Ijaw…

Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar and familyThe Nigerian rich and upper middle class folded their arms and allowed Nigeria to go to the dogs. We reasoned we don’t need to care if others go hungry, once we have had our fill. The result is here! We are destined to become losers and geezers. As most of us saunter into middle age, an epidemic of loneliness and social isolation, like never before in the history of Nigeria, is becoming our portion. Our fathers, who retired as teachers, professors, engineers, doctors, civil servants, lawyers, and are now in their seventies and eighties,…

Malami, AGFA southern leadership group has joined the long line of voices in condemnation of the attorney-general of the federation and minister for Justice who recently forgot his unique role of custodian of the Nigerian legal body to shamelessly speak for his Fulani herdsmen currently in the eye of the storm for causing serious security breaches in parts of the country.Malami in a recent reaction to an announcement from southern governors of a ban on open grazing as a means of checking herdsmen impunity and rising insecurity in their zones, suggested that a ban on open grazing should also attract…

Pan Niger Delta Forum, PANDEF, has commended the Board and Management of the Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas (NLNG) Limited on the recent commissioning of its corporate headquarters in Port Harcourt, Rivers State.In a release signed by the Niger Delta Pressure group’ spokesperson, Hon Ken Robinson, NLNG was applauded for doing what the international oil companies which for decades have been milking the region, destroying the land and livelihood of the people, have failed to do.The release read in parts:“PANDEF is indeed gratified that NLNG decided to relocate its corporate headquarters to Rivers State, where it operates. The development is highly…

Winner of the 2021 AFRICA MATHEMATICS Project Competition is Nigerian Dabotubo Lordson Lawson, from Kalabari kingdom, Rivers State.Datubo is receiving widespread praise for this accomplishment in a season of growing low school attendance by the young. Many young Kalabari no longer treasure education resulting in high school drop-out rates. Membership of violent cult groups is high and many teenagers prefer to be engaged in the dangerous but lucrative artisanal crude oil refining business known as kpofire.The Kalabari were famous for early exposure to Western education in the Niger Delta and had hundreds of highly educated persons including women, who were…