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Pastor Reuben Wilson has appealed to President Bola Tinubu to appoint a credible participant in the Niger Delta struggle as Coordinator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP). Wilson, an ex-agitator is immediate past President of the First Phase Leaders of PAP and South-South Coordinator of The Asiwaju Group (TAG), made the call in a statement issued on Tuesday in Yenagoa. Wilson said the amnesty scheme in its original concept is central to sustenance of peace in the Niger Delta and as such, it should not be left in the hands of those who know nothing about the foundational philosophy of…

Ijaw Youth Council (IYC) has called on President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Gov Siminialayi Fubara of Rivers State to prioritise the development of the Niger Delta and Ijaw communities in Rivers State respectively. The IYC President, Peter Timothy Igbifa, in a statement to congratulate Tinubu and Fubara on their inaugurations, also canvassed for massive youth empowerment in the region and Rivers. Igbifa appealed to Fubara to undertake road projects that would link riverine communities to facilitate movements of goods and services and speed up the overall development of the state. He said the Rivers governor should develop a new city…

There is lamentation among lecturers in Ambrose Alli University (AAU), Ekpoma, Edo State as they are currently being owed 17 months salary arrears. Their pains were made public at a congress meeting on Monday, June 5, where the university’s branch of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) denounced the deliberate denial of salaries to some staff since the inception of the university’s Special Intervention Team (SIT). A joint statement issued after the meeting signed by Dr. Cyril Onogbosele and Dr. Williams Odion, chairperson and assistant secretary respectively of the local ASUU chapter, blamed SIT for the deliberate denial of…

The People of Sangana Community in Brass local Government of Bayelsa State have called on the Bayelsa State Government and oil sector regulatory agencies to call indigenous oil company Conoil Producing Nigeria Limited to order over the death of their youth who were shot at the company’s offshore platform near the community by security operatives guiding the facility. A young man, Ido Ikiowori 28 years old, was shot dead, while two others are reported missing. Two others, who sustained very serious gunshot wounds but, survived the incident which occurred Monday, May 29, 2023, are receiving treatment at a private hospital…

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, GCFR, has approved the immediate retirement of all Service Chiefs and the Inspector-General of Police, Advisers, Comptroller-General of Customs from Service as well as their replacements with immediate effect. The newly appointed Officers are: S/N NAME APPOINTMENTS 1. Mallam Nuhu Ribadu – National Security Adviser 2. Maj. Gen. C.G Musa- Chief of Defence Staff 3. Maj. T. A Lagbaja- Chief of Army Staff 4. Rear Admirral E. A Ogalla- Chief of Naval Staff 5. AVM H.B Abubakar Chief of Air Staff 6. DIG Kayode Egbetokun – Acting Inspector-General of Police 7. Maj. Gen. EPA Undiandeye- Chief…

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu might still be settling down to duties after the elaborate inauguration on May 29, 2023 and other ceremonies that ushered him into office. However, it is heartwarming to note that those rituals of inauguration have not blurred his vision to urgent matters of state, given the dispatch with which he has treated some very sensitive national issues so far, like the removal of subsidy on fuel, the suspension and investigation of the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria and the Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission and assenting to the power and student…

A father of quadruplets, Mr. Izogie Odiase has begged to Her Excellency, Mrs. Betsy Obaseki Edo State First Lady to come to his rescue as he is financially burdened to take care of the children. Izogie Odiase, a mobile welder (Iron Bender) said he lost his wife in the early hours of January 18, 2023 after giving birth to the quadruplet on the 17th Jand since then, it has been very difficult for him to take care of the children even with the assistance of his mother-in-law. The appeal letter reads: “Her Excellency, First Lady of Edo State, Government House,…

The police in Rivers State said that they have arrested a 30-year-old woman who allegedly stabbed a 12-year-old girl in the back and fled. The victim known as Miss Oluebube and her attacker, identified simply as Abigail were both residents of Chukwu Street in Rumuodara at Obio/Akpor Local Government Area in Port Harcourt at the time of the incident. A sister of the victim identified as Oluchi told reporters at the press conference what happened. “My sister was washing dishes outside when our mother went to the market. The woman (suspect) was fetching water outside and because our corridor is…

About 17 kidnappers and cultists have been killed in separate operations carried out by the police and vigilance groups in Emohua Local Government Area of Rivers State. In one of the operations, the vigilante group in Rundele ambushed and killed 10 members of the Degbam Cult members who had raided the community two days earlier, killed and beheaded four members of the OSPAC vigilante group in the community. The Commissioner of Police, Mr. Nwonyi Emeka, who however confirmed four of the killings, said the police had responded to signals by members of the community of the invasion of the cultists.…

Information filtering into our newsroom indicate that three weeks after the current governor of Rivers state, Siminialayi Fubara was sworn in as governor of the maritime, oil and rich state on May 29, 2023 the former governor of the state, Chief Nyesom Wike is still in control of the reins of governance in the state. Events playing out in technicolor, are giving credence to widespread fears that, the present governor may just be a figure head while the power behind the throne, Nyesom Wike is the one calling the shots and pulling the strings of government from his comfort zone…