Tony Uranta, UNDEDSS Executive Secretary, in a statement on Wednesday in Lagos said that the Niger-Delta had not taken position on the ongoing agitations by various emancipation groups.
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Osinbajo stated this on Tuesday in an address delivered virtually at a National Summit on the Integration of Artisanal and Modular Refinery Operations in Nigeria.
Speaking with News Agency of Nigeria on the development in Lagos on Monday, the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed said the President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration will not be distracted by the absurdity.
Dokubo’s declaration was contained in a statement issued by one Uche Mefor, described as the Head of Information and Communication of the customary government. Copies of the statement were made available to journalists in Warri on Sunday.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that a Dutch court on Friday had ordered the Nigerian subsidiary of Shell to pay compensation over the 2008 oil spills in Oruma, Bayelsa State, Goi in Rivers State and Ikot Ada Udo in Akwa Ibom State.
This was just as the upper chamber approved a recommendation by the Senate and House of Representatives Committee on Niger Delta for an extension of the budget implementation timeline to March 31, 2021.
President Buhari stated this on Friday while declaring open the fourth Meeting of the National Council on Niger Delta at the Hotel Presidential, Port Harcourt, Rivers State.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the meeting which held on Tuesday at Hotel Presidential, Port Harcourt, drew participants from the various zones and chapters, including Ijaw sons and daughters in the Diaspora.
The Deputy Senate President made a case for 100 per cent utilisation of the funds for oil-bearing communities, as against the practice where states release only 50 per cent of the money to development commissions in their states.
His Special Adviser, Media and Publicity, Yomi Odunuga, said in a statement issued on Wednesday in Abuja that Omo-Agege’s appeal came on the heels of recent threats by a coalition of nine militant groups in the Niger Delta expressing readiness to resume hostilities by attacking oil and gas facilities.
Akpabio made the appeal at the stakeholders’ conference comprising the youth in Uyo on Saturday.
Leading the debate on the general principles of the bill on Wednesday during plenary, Senate Leader Yahaya Abdullahi announced continuation of the budget consideration by the lawmakers.
The said article, which was shared on several platforms, elicited only revulsion from patriotic Urhobo sons and daughters unfortunate enough to have read the gibberish from the febrile minds of Keme and his motley band of misfits masquerading as scholars.
The position of the company was contained in a statement on Friday.
Since his appointment as Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Godswill Akpabio, a lawyer, senator and former governor of Akwa Ibom State, has come under the most virulent attacks and orchestrated media lynching. The same man who was the toast of the Nigerian media and even political associates and opponents on account of his uncommon leadership that wrought uncommon transformation in his state has suddenly become the subject of media hounding.
The Federal Government had been given an ultimatum by some Niger Delta groups.
From personality clashes to sordid tales of mismanagement of funds, contractors that collect mobilization fees and simply take a walk, politicians in the National Assembly feeding fat on Niger Delta resources, and reports of terrifying wasteful expenditure and the conversion of every event or situation:
My interest in the Niger Delta has far-flung roots in certain personal and vicarious experiences along the route of my practitioner-researcher journey. The take off point of this journey was my employment on February 14, 1994 as a Researcher-Reporter on the energy and politics beats on the pioneer team of THISDAY newspaper.
The narrativization in most public domains is that it is a monstrous sin to violently invade a person’s most sacrosanct cavity for demonic, sexual gratification. We have seen black-shirted anti-rapist’s militant women with placards as they lay siege after siege at the seat of power calling out time against sexual monsters in our society.
The lawyer said this in a personal letter to the President.