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Women in Gelegele Community in     Local Government of Edo State have cried out to the state government for help as a research on the health impacts of gas flaring in the lives of women in the community.The participatory research carried out thee by a non-governmental organization, Gwedo    revealed that gas flaring in the center of the community has adversely affected the environment, livelihood and health of the people especially, the women and children. According to the report, residents of Gelegele Community are suffering from various health issues including, respiratory problems, rashes, deafness, multiple cases of rheumatism, arthritis, eye pain, convulsion…

….calls on Tinubu to issue directives to security personnel not to suppress peaceful protestersBy Iduozee Efe Paul BENIN CITY – The Leadership of the Neo-Black Movement, NBM, of Africa has restated the constitutional right of the Nigerian people to carry out peaceful protests and peaceful assembly. In a press statement signed by NBM President and approved by the Trustees, which was made available to journalists in Benin City, Edo State, the movement however said such protests and assemblies to demand for a better Nigeria must remain peaceful and not hijacked by criminal elements.The NBM distanced itself from a statement on…

Rivers State Governor, Mr. Siminalayi Fubara, has assured of the timely completion of the five-kilometer Okania-Ogbogoro Road that will ease movement for both residents and motorists who ply that route to avoid the traffic problem caused by the ongoing construction of the Port Harcourt Ring Road in the state. The Okania-Ogbogoro Road is in Akpor area of Obio/Akpor Local Government Area in the state capital. The governor also described as fulfilling, the expression of joy and excitement by residents of Okania and Ogbogoro communities who, are seeing their major access road that was abandoned for about 14 years, being reconstructed…

Speaker of the Rivers State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Victor Oko-Jumbo, has dismissed the purported resolution passed by embattled Martin Amaewhule faction wherein they claimed to have barred Governor Siminalayi Fubara and the State Government from withdrawing money from the Consolidated Revenue Fund of the State. In his opening speech before the start of legislative business at plenary on Tuesday in Port Harcourt, Rt. Hon. Oko-Jumbo wondered the basis of such audacity of Amaewhule and his cohorts when their seats had been declared vacant on December 13, 2023, when Rt. Hon. Edison Ogerenye Ehie was then the duly recognised…

The Administrator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP), Dr Dennis Otuaro, has said that President Bola Tinubu has the political will to support the sustainable development, stability and peace of the Niger Delta. Otuaro, who spoke at the Technical Session of the Niger Delta Stakeholders’ Summit 2024 with the theme, “Renewed Hope for Sustainable Development of the Niger Delta,” organised by the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) in Port Harcourt, Rivers, on Wednesday, also noted that communities and stakeholders from the Niger Delta also have a vital role to play in ensuring the progress of the region. Otuaro emphasised that…

Indigenes of the Olugboboro community in Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of Bayelsa have cried out over a massive oil leakage of from the pipeline operated by the Nigerian Agip Oil Company, (NAOC) in the area. According to the Olugboboro indigenes, the spill occurred about two months ago along Ogboinbiri/Tebitada pipeline when the pipeline ruptured which has been attributed to equipment failure. In a letter to the Bayelsa State Government, the community called for urgent intervention to save the communities from the toxic effects of the oil spillage. The letter signed by the Olugboboro community, Chief Azeke Matthew Akpowari, Chief…

The Administrator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP), Dr Dennis Otuaro, has said that the programme will not relent in its determination to improve the manpower base of the Niger Delta. Otuaro, who stated this while hosting four cadet pilot trainees of the PAP, Lawrence Oliki, Kingsley Bassey, Osekporovwere Diamond and Crosby Otobo, at Presidential Amnesty Office in Abuja, said this will be achieved with quality vocational, educational skills and empowerment as well as agriculture, among others. The quartet had successfully completed the type-rating programme as cadet pilots at the Sim Aero training Limited in Johannesburg, South Africa. A statement…

I wish Governor Douye Diri’s Bayelsa State Government would take a cue from Governor Soludo’s Anambra State Government and also implement key recommendations of the commissions it set up, especially the Archbishop John Sentamu Commission on environmental pollution. The commission was set up 19 or 7 years later than it should have been, depending on how one looks at it. Due to constraints traceable mostly to the state government and not to the panel, it then took 4 years to probe pollution in the state and produce its report, which with the right support could have been done in 2…

Nigeria is on the verge of going through another nationwide protest after the 2020 #EndSars protest that shook the nation to its foundations. This time around the anonymous organizers of the protest have tagged it #EndBadGovernance protest. Coming after a similar protest against a public taxation law protest lasted many days in Kenya with the attendant huge loss of lives and property, there are fears that the protest in Nigeria could come with more devastating effects. Already people in government have begun to exhibit signs of desperation as they anticipate the protest. The National Assembly has declared a recess, which…

Gender activists have made a strong call for the establishment of Special Courts for gender abuse by the federal and state governments, as part effort to speedily reduce violations against women and girls in the country. The call was made at a Theories of Change dissemination workshop jointly hosted by Kebetkache Women Development and Resource Center and the West African Women Peacebuilding Network with funding from the University of Leicester, UK. Participants at the interactive forum, identified decried the slow process of accessing justice for victims of gender violence which was identified as being on the increase, lamenting that endless…