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By Ibiba DonPedroDikio who spoke at a Stakeholder gathering in Yenagoa Wednesday, November 18,2020 to seek understanding and to reposition the beleaguered Disarmament, Demobilisation and Reintegration, DDR programme in the Niger Delta noted that:‘This approach of protest, protest is antithetical to the progress of the region. We have to find creative ways of bringing back business to the region’.The interim administrator who is on a Niger Delta wide tour themed, ‘Back To The Region Tour’, in responding to the myriad of concerns about the beleaguered programme which is thumbed down for the culture of fraud, including a scheme of corruption…

By Contance Meju, Henry EferegboFor Ogonis, Niger Delta, Nigerian activists, government and the environment world, November has assumed a month of significant events. On November 9, 1995, the then military government of Gen. Sani Abacha stamped itself as a government with impatience for dissenting voices. It gruesomely snuffed life off a world recognized environmental activist, playwright, poet and great advocate for ethnic nationality, Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight other Ogonis over the killing of four pro-government Ogoni leaders.The killing of Ken and the others was the climax of a long series of brutalization, dehumanization and destruction of hundreds of Ogoni lives…

Schools reopen for the new academic session, the Rivers State ministry of education has warned principals, and heads of schools to banish the thought of collecting any fees or levies from pupils/students as violation will attract serious consequences.In a release sent out to the media and the public to this effect signed by the commissioner for education, Prof Kaniye Ubeku, parents are directed to call the number 07030967868 to report any found violating the order, which is from the governor.The full statement read:As schools reopen for the new academic year, 2020/2021session, Principals and Heads of Schools are hereby, reminded that…

Gov. Nyesom WikeRivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has decried the upsurge in cult activities, violence and killings around adjoining areas of the Okoro-nodu flyover in Obio/Akpor Local Government Area.In a broadcast Sunday evening, Wike recalled that the administration repeatedly warned misguided youths that engaging in cultism is abhorrent anti-social behaviour.He vowed that anyone who disturbs peace and security in Rivers neighbourhoods will be dealt with.“As part of measures to tackle this menace, Government has imposed a 24-hour total curfew for two weeks on the entire area along and around the Okoro-nodu flyover up to one-kilometer radius from Saint Emmanuel Anglican…

The newly signed Train 7 Project of the Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas (NLNG) Limited will generate 52,000 jobs, its Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer, Tony Attah, has said.According to him, 12,000 of the jobs will come through direct employments; 40,000 persons will get indirect jobs from the project.Attah spoke at the weekend in Port Harcourt during a reception organised by the Junior Chambers International (JCI) to mark the reappointment of Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) Executive Secretary Simbi Wabote by President Muhammadu Buhari.He praised Wabote, saying without his commitment, the Train 7 project would have been a mirage.Attah said…

Lamentations as Gospel laid deadEven as the country struggles to unravel police brutality and reform the Nigeria Police, police officers appear unbothered by the anger against them which, snowballed into the #ENDARS# protest, some police personnel are till deep in the act. Ogoni youth from Khana Local Government Area of Rivers State are boiling with anger over the killing of one of their own, Gospel Gbaraka, 28 years old, native of Gwara in Khana Local GovernmentArea, on Sunday, November 22, while on duty by a trigger happy police officer at his security post.Gospel was until his death, a security officer…