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.
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Dr Cairo Ojougboh, the commission’s Executive Director of Project gave the assurance while speaking with newsmen on Tuesday in Abuja.
The Coordinator, Presidential Amnesty Programme, Prof Charles Dokubo, has urged leaders of Niger Delta ex-agitators to work towards the success of the programme for people in the region to enjoy its gains.
Beneficiaries of the professional development course drawn from communities in the Niger Delta were trained at the Onshore and Offshore Safety Institute of Nigeria in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, as part of fresh initiatives to extend gains of the Amnesty Programme to inhabitants of communities impacted during the Niger Delta crisis.
Dokubo said even as he had never altered the structure he inherited, especially with regards to beneficiaries captured in the database of the Amnesty Programme, he took steps to redress glaring irregularities and cases of injustice.
The Federal Executive Council has approved the conversion of natural gas to methanol in order to address the environmental challenge caused by gas flaring in the country.
President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered a forensic audit of the operations of the Niger Delta Development Commission from 2001 to 2019.
The beneficiaries, who were given the items at a flag-off ceremony in Warri, Delta State, are the first batch among 400 rural women to be empowered in the fishing sector.
Unscrupulous people, described as crude oil thieves, have set fire on an oil pipeline belonging to Italian oil giant Agip at Ubeta community in the Ahoada West Local Government Area of Rivers State.
Recall that at last week’s sitting of the panel, the Auditor General of the Federation had disclosed that N64.4 billion was wasted by the Niger Delta Development Commission as mobilisation fees on abandoned projects in the Niger Delta region
It is a sad commentary that the Niger Delta people face the paradox of having an amazing wealth in crude oil but are buffeted by a whirlwind that has choked genuine efforts to turn around the situation in a region that is bare in human capital and infrastructural development.
“These are critical national assets with 55 percent government interest and they produce the crude oil that accounts for over 90 per cent of Nigeria’s foreign exchange and the bulk of government revenue. Hurting these assets means hurting the nation’s revenue, the economy of the states, the health of the people and the environment,” SPDC’s General Manager External Relations, Igo Weli, said on Monday
Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Joint Venture says it loses about N202 million daily in revenue to activities of criminals in the Niger Delta.
Not everyone in Rivers State or in the Niger Delta region is a Christian but without a doubt, Rivers State is a Christian State along with the other five states of the Niger Delta. Christians must be bold and fearless to speak the truth for all to hear that Niger Delta is a Christian region.
The Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Senator Godwin Akpabio, has stressed the need for redirecting the affairs of the Niger Delta Development Commission affairs, saying that the commission has over N2 trillion debt to settle.
The latest awards bring the total number of beneficiaries to 92 since the inception of the scheme in 2010.
The indigenes, who staged a protest in Abuja on Thursday, were demanding payment of the amount, saying they were being cheated by the multinational company.
The newly appointed Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Senator Godswill Akpabio, has pledged his commitment to ensure effective development in the Niger Delta region, especially in the areas of infrastructure.
The Coordinator, Presidential Amnesty Programme, Prof. Charles Dokubu, has commended the Nigerian Army for maintaining security and securing critical national infrastructure in the Niger Delta.
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation has for the umpteenth time assured stakeholders in Delta State and the Niger Delta in general that it has no plan to relocate the headquarters of its subsidiary, Nigerian Gas Company, from its present location in Delta State to somewhere outside the region.