Ex-militants Express Solidarity With Anticipated Protest Action Urge Federal Govt Not To Release IOC’s $1.6bn To NDDC Tension is mounting over a possible shutdown of activities across the Niger Delta states as the one-month ultimatum given by various youth groups in the oil-rich region for the federal government to inaugurate the substantive board of the…
Civil society groups in Nigeria have urged the Nigerian government to compel Shell to clean up the massive pollution its extractive activities have created in the Niger Delta and cautioned that the company’s plans to divest its operations by moving offshore is only targeted at evading the scrutiny that its onshore activities have attracted. Three…
Say Sustaining Zoning Principle Key To Political Stability In State Group Not Parallel To PDP, Not Confrontational To Okowa -- Amori Urhobo politicians have been urged to reach out to politicians from other Senatorial districts by building bridges and create alliances in a bid to actualize the objective of Urhobo to produce the next governor…
Following the crisis in the Rivers State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC), a former chairman of the APC, Chief Davies Ikanya and a former National Assembly member, Igo Aguma, alongside others have defected to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Aguma, who was also a former acting chairman of the APC in Rivers quit…
As Gale of Resignations Hit PDP in Delta North Political Heavyweights Re-align Against Okowa's Stance On Zoning Guber Ticket “Turning and turning in the widening gyre; The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the center cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world.” For many political analysts who have been following political developments…
Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege has described the decision by Governor of Cross River State, Prof Ben Ayade to join the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) as a liberation from the forces of retrogression The New Diplomat earlier reported that Governor Ayade announced his defection from the opposition's People's Democratic Party to…
Following recent pronouncements made by Delta State Governor, Dr Ifeanyi Okowa, the crisis rocking the Delta State Chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has escalated as two Party chieftains on Wednesday tendered their resignation letters to the party ahead of the upcoming 2023 General Elections. Asides the protracted crisis rocking the Delta PDP, the…
Recommends local solution for Herders-farmers crisis Royal Father of Idjerhe kingdom in Delta State, HRM Monday Obukowho Whiskey, has called on President Buhari to stop further release of funds to the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC until the substantive board of the Commission is inaugurated. The monarch who made this call in an interview with…
The Federal Government of Nigeria has finally received a sum of £4,214,017.66 looted funds recovered from family members and associates of former Delta State Governor, James Ibori by the United Kingdom. The Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, made this confirmation on Tuesday. According the the AGF, the UK has…