Musa disclosed this in an interview with News Agency of Nigeria in Abuja on Thursday.
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Diri made the call on Friday during an online global conference to mark the 2020 World Environment Day, with the theme: “The Impact of the Coronavirus Pandemic on the Flora and Fauna of the Niger Delta.”
An Oil and Gas Industry Watchdog has called on the National Assembly to refrain from actions that appear to be distracting the Interim Management Committee of the Niger Delta Development Commission from completing the forensic audit on time as ordered by President Muhammadu Buhari.
The Governor said this on a live programme via Skype.
The two organisations stated this at a special webinar meeting, organised on Monday in Lagos, to mark to mark the 93rd birthday of the PANDEF Leader, Chief Edwin Clark.
The Defence Headquarters says the Nigerian military under Operation Delta Safe has continued to record more successes in the fight against crude oil theft and economic sabotage in the Niger Delta region.
The National Oil Spills Detection and Response Agency says findings on the dead fishes on the Atlantic coastline indicated high levels of toxicity caused by toxic wastes discharge.
A group of ex-militants, Conscience of the Niger Delta, has thrown its weight behind the National Assembly’s probe of an alleged N40 billion irregular expenditure by the Niger Delta Development Commission.
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has been charged to investigate owners of hotels in Niger Delta with a view to unravel their ownership.
Senator Ita Enang, Senior Special Assistant to the President on Niger Delta Affairs, says the ongoing forensic audit on the Niger Delta Development Commission is not targeted at individuals.
The Niger Delta Development Commission has blamed its inability to distribute ventilators and other test kits to its mandate states on global lockdown over the Coronavirus Disease pandemic.
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on March 5, 2020 presented three witnesses, who, testifying before Justice F. O. G. Ogunbanjo of the Federal High Court, Abuja, revealed how the former Chairman, House of Representatives Committee on Niger Delta Development Commission, Nicholas Mutu Ebomo; his companies: Airworld Technologies LTD and Oyien Homes LTD, allegedly received more than N4.8 million gratification from oil companies operating in the Niger Delta region.
The Senate on Thursday considered a bill which proposes stiffer sanctions for any person or corporate entity involved in gas flaring in Nigeria from January 1, 2021.
About 416 forms of violence and 1,013 fatality cases were recorded in the Niger Delta region in 2019, says Foundation for Partnership Initiative in the Niger Delta, an NGO.
Where is the map of Biafra? This is the question I have often asked the promoters and sympathizers of the Biafra cause, and up till this moment, their responses have been feeble, vague, evasive and suspicious, failing to provide specific drawing showing a clearly defined territorial area called Biafra.
Dokubo said President Buhari has done well for the people of the oil-rich region, especially with the Amnesty Programme, which has trained over 3,000 beneficiaries in less than two years under his watch from March 2018.
With the significant progress now recorded in the Ogoni Clean-Up project, attracting local and international commendation, the Buhari Administration’s New Vision for the Niger Delta is making good progress.
Two Hundred and fifty persons in communities impacted during the Niger Delta crisis in Buguma Local Government Area of Rivers State and its environ were given starter packs in various trade areas at the weekend as the Presidential Amnesty Programme unveiled a robust empowerment programme for the year.
The stakeholders, comprising elders, opinion leaders and professionals drawn from various states across the Niger Delta, said previous coordinators of the Programme had mainly focused on amnesty and payment of stipends to ex-agitators, but were not concerned with developing the region.
Jonathan gave the advice when officials of Ijaw Youth Council, Worldwide, and Niger Delta Youth Leaders, visited him to commiserate with him over the attack on his residence in Otuoke.