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In hindsight, I’d never been one that empathized with people who experienced bullying in workplaces. I sincerely believed that the issue was less important and should be suppressed at the lower rung of the priority ladder. My view was that people ought to grow a tough skin as a general survival skill. They should be grateful that they had jobs and should stop whining about little workplace politics. Now, I shudder at how ignorant, insensitive and dreadful my thoughts were, and how much conviction I had. From where I stand today, it is easy to understand that my insensitivity was…

The paramount ruler of Ejammah-Ebubu Community in Eleme local government Area of Rivers state, HRH, Peter Nyimeochen Oguru has cried out over incessant police harassment, threats of arrest, arrests and intimidationhe has been subjected to since June 2022. Also facing the same ordeals in the hands of the Police are members of a 13-man disbursement committee set up by the community during an open town hall meeting to handle the disbursement of oil-spill compensation fund paid to the community by Shell Petroleum Development Company as ordered by the Supreme Court in a landmark judgment delivered in 2021.. This publication was…

Women of the Niger Delta face tremendous challenges living and sourcing their livelihood from the land and waters in the region. Beyond being the oil and gas bed of the Nigerian economy, the Niger Delta used to boast of a rich flora and fauna. The wetlands provided habitat to several species of sea creatures that also served as protein and financial sources for the people, while the farmlands richly supplied food like yam, cocoyam, cassava, plantain, potatoes, in huge quantities. The rich mangroves that bordered the water ways were breeding grounds for sea food like periwinkles, oysters, water snails, while…

Some residents of the Federal Low Cost Housing Estate along the Federal Government Girls College Road, Ugbowo, Benin City, have raised alarm over fear of possible outbreak of epidemics in the Estate due to the waste dumpsite in the Estate by the University of Benin Teaching Hospital (UBTH). The residents around the Estate said all efforts to get the hospital’s management to relocate the dumpsite failed hence they decided to cry out to the public to avert any form of epidemic. Secretary, Landlords Association of the Estate, Dr. Sharlyswest Eboigbe, said letters written to concerned authorities to address the issue…

Frontline Niger Delta environmental and human rights non-governmental organization, Center for Environment, Human Rights and Development, CEHRD has called for increased care and support for people living with HIV/AIDS. In a press release to mark the 2022 World HIV/AIDS Day on December 1, the NGO raised concern that Nigeria is now the third highest affected country worldwide linking it to poor access to adequate care by persons with HIV/AIDS, especially those in rural areas. “HIV/AIDs has remained one of Nigeria’s greatest health problems. Reports have shown that globally, Nigeria ranks third among countries with the highest number of people living…

Edo State Police Command has said the five persons that were arrested during the protest by Edo State civil society organisations in Benin recently, were arrested because they conducted themselves in a bestial manner by taking animal carcasses dripping with blood to the state secretariat premises where they rained curses on the government and Governor Godwin Obaseki. The commissioner of Police said in a statement issued by the Edo State Police Public Relations Officer, Mr. Chidi Nwabuzor, that the protesters also did not notify the police before they carried out the protest. The protesters had taken to the streets, to…

Niger Delta Patriots (NDP) has demanded that the Federal Government should without further delay inaugurate the Board of the Niger Delta Development Board (NDDC) or face another round of crisis in the Niger Delta region. The group, which addressed a press conference in Asaba on the issue, also called for immediate action by the Federal Government to rehabilitate critical infrastructure destroyed by the recent flood disaster in the Niger Delta, especially the East-West road,” he added. It said there could be agitations in the creeks of the Niger Delta which could cripple the economy if the NDDC board was not…

The national chairman of the Labour Party, Mr. Julius Abure, has narrated how the party in Edo state was denied the use of Samuel Ogbemudia Stadium and other venues in the state for its presidential rally by the state government. Abure, who was addressing party members and supporters in Benin recently, also accused the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for causing hunger, insecurity, unemployment and other social vices prevalent in Nigeria. He therefore called on the electorate to throw away the parties as bad products out of government in the next general elections. The LP…

Critical infrastructure refers to any physical or virtual networks, systems, and assets critical to the nation that their destruction or incapacitation would harm national security, public health, and safety, economy, or any combination of them. In simpler terms, critical infrastructure consists of all people, systems, or things that must always be operational and intact for daily works and lives to succeed” – DHS· Power/electricity is unarguably one of the vital critical infrastructures that supports the society BACKGROUND The Nigeria power sector is made up of 3 sub sectors, namely: – Generation – Transmission – Distribution There are 23 grid-connected power…

Ijaw Republican Assembly Patriotic Front IRA-PF gathered Ijaw people and friends in honour of Ijaw persons who have pushed issues of Ijaw justice and development over the years. Among those honoured, were Chief Government Akpemupolo, aka Tompolo foremost Ijaw/Niger Delta activist and leader of the defunct movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, MEND. Others include, Prof. Banjamin Ogele Okaba, President Ijaw National Congress INC, Timi Kaiser-Wilhem Ogoriba, founder of MOSIEND, Annkio Briggs, environmental and human rights advocate, Ibiba DonPedro Managing Director, National Point weekly/CANDOUR magazine. More still are, Alabo T.O. Graham Douglas, Prof. Lawrence Ekpebu who received post…