A youth leader in the Niger Delta, John Dekawei, gave the advise when he spoke with newsmen in Warri, Delta State.
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Clark said this in an Open Letter he addressed to Buhari on Thursday, describing the claim of peace in Niger Delta as untrue.
At least the Pope is no longer in charge! Sovereignty comes with the incredible opportunity to birth the state to which Obasanjo celebrates. The condition comes with ownership of everything. He wants us to believe Nigeria is a sovereign state claiming oil ownership in the Niger Delta area. There cannot be two sovereign states within a state, as Obasanjo posited. If this is true, Is Nigeria the owner of Obasanjo library too! Nigeria is also the owner of Boko Haram, not only the Oil in the Niger Delta. We left the stage of religious wars, and the principle of Sovereignty, therefore, involved a good deal of struggle and bloodshed.
He said this in an open letter to respond to accusations by the Leader of the Pan Niger Delta Forum and Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Ijaw National Congress, Chief Edwin Clark.
The Director-General, DMO, Patience Oniha, made this known in Abuja at an investor meeting for the 2021 Sukuk.
The Public Accounts Committee of the Senate, chaired by Senator Mathew Urhoghide, summoned the PAP Office.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the prominent Niger Delta activist died on Nov. 24 at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital at the age of 67.
Efiye Bribena, Secretary of the group, spoke on behalf of the Ijaw Professional Association and Ijaw Nation’s Forum.
This is contained in a statement issued by Diri’s Chief Press Secretary, Daniel Alabrah, on Thursday in Yenagoa.
The Acting Director, Defence Media Operations, Brigadier General Bernard Onyeuko, disclosed this on Thursday.
The Chief of Defence Staff, General Lucky Irabor, inducted the gunboats on behalf of the Nigerian Navy in Lagos.
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The NUPRC was created courtesy of the Petroleum Industry Act, PIA, the novel piece of legislation which suffered several years of failed abortion and vicious mutilations before its bill was finally passed by the National Assembly, NASS, and accented to by President Buhari as an Act of parliament.
A statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Jackson Udom, stated: “The attention of the minister has been drawn to calls by individuals and groups that he contests for any political office in 2023.
The acting Solicitor-General of the Federation (SGF) and Permanent Secretary of the Federal Ministry of Justice, Umar Mohammed, who represented the minister said the move was in a bid to block revenue leakages.
The proposal to establish a naval base in Kano was recently announced by the Chief of Naval Staff, Rear Admiral Zubairu Gambo, an indigene of Kano.
The reason the Niger Delta region has remained underdeveloped till today in spite of the huge resources pumped into the area by the various governments, intervention agencies, international oil corporations, oil services companies, development partners, global foundations, other corporate entities, wealthy individuals and community development efforts etc., is simply because the people are more inclined towards defending selfish and parochial indulgences than insisting on fundamental growth and development.
The monarch, who was last week installed as the 21st Olu of Warri, stated this while receiving in courtesy the Minister, Niger Delta Affairs Ministry, Senator Godswill Akpabio, in his palace in Warri on Saturday.
While conceding that the duo of Buhari and Sylva have the constitutional rights to move to any parts of the country, the youths insisted that “their movement into the six states of the Niger Delta will be welcome with boos and disgraceful jeers due to their show of disregard to the plights and cry of the people of the region over the years”.
Osinbajo, who was represented, stated this on Tuesday at the Sixth Anniversary Lecture/Niger Delta Awards.