A former Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Elder Godsday Orubebe, has described the Peoples Democratic Party as a party full of ungrateful people and sadists.
Orubebe, who served as Minister in the Goodluck Jonathan Administration, said this in an interview with Vanguard newspaper.
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Niger Delta leaders have urged the Federal Government to adequately fund and sustain the Presidential Amnesty Programme to maintain peace and fast-track development in the region.
The Presidential Amnesty Programme has warned Niger Delta youths offered scholarship on compassionate grounds to study in universities across the country not to take the gesture as a right, but rare privilege to enable them acquire tertiary education and better their lives.
The Ondo State Governor, Chief Oluwarotimi Akeredolu (SAN), at the weekend appraised the performance of the Presidential Amnesty Programme under the leadership of Prof. Charles Dokubo and expressed conviction of a deep rooted commitment to the development of the Niger Delta.
Some Ijaw organisations in the Niger Delta have insisted that the impending local government council and gubernatorial elections scheduled for August10 and November 16, respectively should be devoid of electoral manipulations.
Gunmen on Sunday at Gbarantoru community in Yenagoa, abducted the wife of a lecturer with the Niger Delta University.
Former President, Goodluck Jonathan on Friday described education as a veritable tool against militancy in the Niger Delta and the country at large.
The Nigerian Navy said ON Wednesday that it arrested no fewer than 197 suspected smugglers between 2015 and 2018.
Five oil workers were on Tuesday kidnapped by gunmen within the Oil Mining Lease 55 operated by an indigenous oil company, Belemaoil Producing Limited, in Akuku-Toru Local Government Area of Rivers State.
The Nigeria Police Force said it has uncovered specific plots by some subversive elements masquerading as climate and environmental activists to commence massive and coordinated attacks on oil installations across the country, especially in the Niger Delta region and adjoining States.
Dr. Otive Igbuzor, Founder and Executive Director, Centre for Leadership, Strategy and Development, has urged Niger Delta youths to imbibe the culture of leadership through mentorship.
Governor Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa has blamed International Oil Companies for degrading the predominantly swampy Niger Delta environment through oil and gas exploration and production.
The Special Adviser to the President on Niger Delta and Coordinator, Presidential Amnesty Programme, Prof. Charles Dokubo, has tasked Niger Delta youths to put on thinking caps and initiate life-changing ideas through the PAP to improve on their lives, communities and environment.
The Special Adviser to the President on Niger Delta and Coordinator, Amnesty Programme, Prof. Charles Dokubo, has said his vision of creating a Job Placement and International Partners Engagement Unit last year has started yielding results.
The Joint Military Task Force, code-named: “Operation Delta Safe,” says it has destroyed and dislodged major militant camps in the Niger Delta, thereby boosting security in the region.
Youths in the Niger Delta have commended the Joint Task Force for the strategies deployed in fighting oil theft in region.
The Federal Government says it will continue to embark on meaningful projects that will attract development to the Niger Delta.
Prof. Charles Dokubo, Special Adviser to the President on Niger Delta and Coordinator, Amnesty Programme says the Amnesty Office has trained a total of 1,401 beneficiaries in various skills in the last one year.
Madam Ekioukere Foster hails from Bayelsa State but resident in Bomadi, headquarters of Bomadi Local Government of Delta State.
The Peoples Democratic Party has warmed President Muhammadu Buhari and the All Progressives Congress to steer clear of all PDP strongholds, particularly the Niger Delta region, ahead of the March 9 Governorship and State Assembly elections in order to avert a widespread crisis in our country.