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Edo Youths Shut Down NDDC Office, Call For Akpabio’s Resignation… Give Minister 72 Hours To r To Address Their PlightsBy Iduozee Efe Paul, BeninThere was heavy traffic and slow vehicular movement at Third East Circular Road, Benin city, as a youth group, Edo Restoration Movement, shut down the Edo State office of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) over claims of marginalization of Edo people.Commenting on why the NDDC office was locked, spokesperson for the Edo Restoration Movement (ERM), Thaddeus Irabor, said that at present, there has been no tangible NDDC project in Edo State since the minister of Niger…

£4.2 Million Ibori Loots: ANEEJ Calls For Review Of MoU…Says Stolen Funds Should Be Handed over To Delta State-Iduozee Efe Paul, BeninThe Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice {ANEEJ}, has called on the governments of the United Kingdom (UK) and the Federal Government to review the recently signed Memorandum of Understanding (MoU in respect of returned loot, and ensure the returned £4.2 million fund recovered from the former Delta State governor, James Onanefe Ibori is handed over to Delta State where the money was looted from.Making the call at a press conference in Benin City, the executive director of…

Conference of Non-governmental Organizations (CONGOs) has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to proffer solutions to the problems of insecurity, unemployment, poverty, education and hunger in Nigeria.The body through its president, Comrade Abiola Daisy at a press briefing in Benin city, decried the high rate of kidnapping and other criminal activities in the state which it described as alarming. It said the Buhari administration has woefully failed the people.“Our points in this struggle are the issues of hunger and poverty being witnessed by the Nigerian people. In recent times, the provocation has been increased to the inability of the Nigerian State…

NDDC: An Edifice To Kick-Start True Transformation of the Niger Deltaby Constance MejuA vision remains a dream until it becomes a reality. For the pioneers of the management of the development intervention agency set up by the federal government of Nigeria in 1994 to address development failures and needs in the Niger Delta under the Oil Mineral Producing Areas Commission, OMPADEC many desired dreams failed to materialize because of several factures ranging from planning, funding, timing and the consequent effect of these as management, government policies changed from one administration to the other.From a unit in the office block of…

The First Lady of Bayelsa State has commended the Bayelsa State House of Assembly for domesticating the Violence Against Persons Prohibition Act (VAPP) in the State.Reacting to the passage of the VAPP bill 2019 on Wednesday, the wife of the governor through a statement issued by her press secretary, Maria Olodi-Osumah, said the long awaited passage since 2017 has finally been realized.“I am happy and delighted that today Bayelsa State has joined the league of States in Nigeria that have domesticated the Violence Against Persons Prohibition Bill (VAPP).I am hopeful that my husband,the Executive Governor Senator Douye Diri will give…

The Federal Government has been asked to focus the proposed regional peace meetings on the real stakeholders and not on elite organizations. The FG is also urged to make disarmament its top priority.In a statement on Wednesday, the Nigerian Working Group on Peace and Conflict Prevention, (WOGPC) said there can be no meaningful outcome of the proposed regional meeting unless the organisers focus on the most critical sector which also included the self-determination groups.The statement signed by the group’s Adewale Adeoye, (Chairman) , and four regional secretaries, Barriser Uche Okwukwu, Chief Digifa Werenipre, Kudu Abubakar and Weyinmi Agbateyiwo said the…

As the state of insecurity continues to spread pitching some ethnic groups against one another, groups of concerned Nigerians from all ends of the country and international bodies are calling on President Muhammadu Buhari to take decisive action to save the country from threat of disintegration.The United Nations, UN has alerted through reports, that panicked Nigerians are already seeking refuge by fleeing into neighbouring countries like Niger and Republic of Benin.Fears were heightened by the food blockade tactics adopted by some northern food and cow sellers early in the week to press home demand for a back-down from South West…

Second Niger Bridge To Gulp N116.7bn• Cost variation not envisaged, says project fund manager• NSE queries exclusion, quality standards; Bridge has no local content, says Ositala• Ohanaeze extolls FG, seeks early completionIt was also gathered that the project was awarded as a “lump sum contract” without provision for cost variation. The Head of Corporate Communications, the Nigeria Sovereign Investment Authority (NSIA), the project fund manager, Titilope Olubiyi, told The Guardian, yesterday, that the Federal Government would fund part of the cost while the balance would be sourced from the debt market. He added that a management company would be established…

The House of Representatives has resolved to investigate the allocation of crude oil under the Direct Sale Direct Purchase (DSDP) scheme.This followed the adoption of a motion of urgent national importance by Rep.Abubakar Yallema (APC-Sokoto) at Wednesday’s plenary.Speaking on the motion, Yallema said it was imperative for the house to unearth the anomaly in the oil sector.He said he was disturbed by the contents of a report on Feb.14 which brought to national attention details of how Nigeria’s crude oil was being stolen and diverted daily.“The report said approximately 5.2 million barrels of crude oil supposedly allocated to comatose NNPC…

The Delta State governor has expressed satisfaction with the ongoing storm drain projects in the state.In his twitter handle @okowa, Dr Ifeanyi Okowa who was on project inspection in parts of the state expressed happiness at the pace and quality of work being done in parts of Warriand Effurun and the fact that they would be ready in 2022.The projects are part of the state government’s effort to transform the state as well as check the menace of flooding and erosion which has been a problem.Meanwhile,his Bayelsa State counterpart,Senator Douye Diri called on Deltans to sustain the prevailing peace in…