Bayelsa Dep. Gov Ewhrudjakpo Tasks Legal Practitioners Over Unethical Conduct

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By Elizabeth Vincent/ Yenagoa Bayelsa State Deputy Governor, Senator Lawrence Ewhrudjakpo, has called on practitioners of the legal profession in Nigeria to rise and launder the image of the profession as its nobility was fast eroding.   Speaking when a joint delegation of the Sagbama and Yenagoa Branches of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) and the leadership of the Young Lawyers Forum, Sagbama Chapter paid him separate courtesy visits in Government House, Yenagoa, on Wednesday, Senator Ewhrudjakpo, lamented that the once highly respected legal profession was being denigrated by the…

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Pres Tinubu Appoints Delta EX-SSG, Ebie Emerges NDDC Chairman, Igbuya State Rep

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President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has appointed Chiedu Ebie former Secretary to Delta State Government and former Speaker of the Delta State House of Assembly, Rt Hon Monday Igbuya as Chairman and Delta State Representative at the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, respectively. In a statement by Ajuri Ngelale Special Adviser to the President Chiedu Ebie was appointed Chairman while Rt Hon Monday Igbuya former Speaker, Delta Rep. with immediate effect.   According to the statement, “President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has approved the appointment of a new Board and Management team of…

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Gov Fubara Of Rivers Under Fire Over Surveillance Contract

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  An oil and gas monitoring group, the Niger Delta Indigenous Movement For Radical Change (NDIMRC) has rained heavy knocks on the Governor of Rivers State, Siminalayi Fubara for saying it was wrong to award such the pipelines Surveillance contract to ‘one man’. The Rivers State governor, Siminalayi Fubara, had on Saturday, August 26th, 2023, fumed over the crude oil pipeline surveillance contract awarded to Tantita Security Services led by former militant leader, High Chief Government Ekpemepulo (aka Tompolo) by the Federal Government. The governor said in Port Harcourt that…

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Analysis & Opinion: Who are the ‘we”?

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By Sunny Awhefeada Last Thursday, the movers and shakers of Nigerian politics gathered in Abuja, Nigeria’s corruption laden capital city for the public presentation of Brutally Frank, the autobiography of elder statesman and nonagenarian, Chief Edwin Kiagbodo Clark. As such gatherings are wont to be, it was another opportunity for our big men to talk about Nigeria and talk down on Nigerians. The big men and women were there in full attendance and voluble agbada and crispy babanriga rubbed one another just as well laundered suits glittered in competition. Headgears…

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Oil& Gas: Delta Community Indicts Ayiri, Akoma Others In A Press Statement

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PRESS STATEMENT BY INDIGENES OF OTUMARA COMMUNITIES. —————- We the undersigned, on behalf of the Communities surrounding the NNPC/SPDC joint venture facilities in Otumara area in the Escravos, Warri South West Local Government Area of Delta State, use this medium to call on the Federal Government of Nigeria to cause the arrest and prosecution of Messrs Ayiri Emami, Mode Akoma, Isaac Botosan, Monday Tenumah, Smart Edema, Lucky Esun, Alex Eyengho, Lucky Ekpedure and others, over the unprovoked attack and destruction of facilities in the NNPC/SPDC Otumara Flow Station with a…

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Group Urges Tinubu To Renew Tompolo’s Pipelines Surveillance Contract

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  …Tasks NNPC, NSA To Reveal Names Of Those Behind Oil Theft   A group, Niger Delta Indigenous Movement For Radical Change (NDIMRC) has appealed to President Bola Tinubu to renew the pipelines Surveillance Contract of ex-war lord in the Niger Delta Region, High Chief Government Ekpemupolo popularly known as  Tompolo for the benefit of the nation.   NDIMRC urged the Federal government that no effort should be spared in collaborating with the former militant leader in the protection of critical oil and gas infrastructure and securing permanent peace in…

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The Unique Culture And Tradition Of The Urhobo People

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By Andrew Darah JP   The Urhobos are the majority ethnic group in Delta State. They occupy Delta Central exclusively but are also present in Delta South and have 9 local governments out of the 25 local governments in Delta State. Their neighbours are the Isoko to the South East, the Itsekiri to the West, Ijaw to the South and Ukwuani people to the North East. Oral tradition tells us that the history of the Urhobo people began from Edo territory. Their migration to the various locations they now call…

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Gunmen Attack Police Station, Kill Police ASP,  Injure Others At Isiokolo

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  A group of unknown gunmen has killed the Station Officer, an Assistant Superintendent of Police, and injure other attached to  Isiokolo Police Division in Ethiope East Local government Area of Delta State. The attacked officers are, ASP Obasanya Samuel, ASP Robinson Irobo and PC Chukwudi Abanu were on guard when the incident occurred. It was gathered. Sources disclosed that the unknown gunman who stormed the Isiokolo divisional headquarters at about 8:30pm on Thursday, killed the Station Officer, (S.O), ASP Obasanya Samuel, ASP Robinson Irobo was shot on his left…

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ALHAJI IBRAHIM ABUBBAKAR BATATI: A True Friend, Father And  Guardian To All Native Sons Of Niger Delta

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By Papems Peter Etolor   A proverbial Pearl of wisdom can be referenced upon a man who is narrow of vision, cannot be big of heart. This can be emphasised upon the biblical story of a man severely beaten and robbed, yet helplessly overlooked by his own people who glaringly watched as the helpless man silently yearned for help in his drenching pains. Instead, it took a Samaritan whom the Jews including the Pharisees, Sadducees and levites saw as an arch rival to care for the wounded stranger. In this…

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Delta To Open New Areas For Devt- Obiodeh

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  The Delta State Government has pledged to open up new areas for massive development in the state for the benefit of the people. The State Commissioner for Lands, Survey and Urban Development, Chief Goodnews Emamusi Obiodeh, gave the pledge on Wednesday on assumption of duty at his office in Asaba. Speaking at a brief handover by the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry, Mrs. Gladys Puegeren, the Commissioner said the idea of opening more areas for development was for the overall benefit of Deltans to develop and for investors to…

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