Tag: Niger/Delta

Bad Leadership Cause Of Niger Delta Under-Development – Mulade

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Comrade Sheriff Mulade, an environmental activist, yesterday stated that infrastructural decay and high rate of poverty in the oil rich Niger Delta region of Nigeria was as a result of bad leadership. Muldae who made this known during an interactive session with journalists in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, drew the Federal government’s attention to economic, environmental, communal and leadership crises rocking the region, which, according to him, have thrown the Niger Delta into a web of conflicting interests. He urged government to consider the setting up of a sustainable and comprehensive…

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Buhari’s election would further develop N’Delta-Magada

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By OMOGHENE BENEDICT , THE 4+4 Niger Delta Believer’s Council, a pressure group within the All Progressives Congress, APC, has described said the reelection of President Muhammadu Buhari will further develop the Niger Delta region through his developmental programmes. National coordinator of the group, Sir Fred Magada in a statement yesterday, stated that the second term of President Buhari as president and the Minister of State for petroleum, Dr. Ibe Kachukwu as a cabinet member, should be seen as victory for the people of the Niger Delta region whom he…

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Ononghen Assets Saga: South South Governor’s Forum has scheduled an emergency meeting of the Forum for Sunday 13th January 2019

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  Following the alleged false assets declaration by the Chief Justice of the Federation, Justice Walter Onnnoghen and his trial slated for Monday 14, 2019, governors from the South/South region has schedule an emergency meeting for Sunday 13, 2019 at Abuja.   The meeting is also in connection with the security status in the Niger Delta region. According to a statement by the Special Adviser on Media Relations to the Governor òf Bayelsa State, Mr. Fidelis Soriwei, stated that the security òf the Niger Delta, during and after the election,…

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CODAF urges FG, State govt to remodify environmental laws to monitor sand mining Niger/Delta region

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By Uruemu Favour, Community Development Advocacy Foundation, CODAF, a Non-Governmental Organisation has urged the the federal government to step up monitoring strategies and enacts policies that will put an end to illegal and indiscriminate sand mining activities in the Niger Delta region. According to the Organization, illegal and indiscriminate sand mining in the Niger Delta region if not properly monitored would cause havoc in the nearest future. In a communique issued at the end of a one day town hall meeting, on Policy Dialogue Community Action Against Indiscriminate Sand Mining in…

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