The GbaramatuVoice was established in 2015 as a monthly tabloid published by the Gbaramatu Publishing Company Limited. It hit the newsstand first on August 2015. The newspaper’s sole objective is to bring to public glare what the management saw at the cradle of its formation as information gap and asymmetrical reportage of the activities and people of the Niger Delta.
•As Kunukunuma community gives NPDC 21-day ultimatum to address issue of neglect THE traditional ruler of Gbaramatu Kingdom, HRM Oboro-Gbaraun II, Aketekpe Agadagba, at the weekend averted plan by aggrieved protesters from Kunukunuma Federated community in Warri South-West Local Council of Delta State to shut down the Odidi flow-station, one of the few functioning oil
Activities to commemorate the first Coronation Anniversary of the 26th Pere of Gbaramatu kingdom, His Majesty, Oboro-Gbaraun 11, Aketekpe, Agadagba, have begun. The event is expected to climax on Wednesday March 15, 2017. Countdown to the day, the world class palace of the Pere, Aketekpe, and all Gbaramatu communities like Oporoza, Benikurukuru, Kunukunuma, Okerenkoko, Kokodiagbene,
The controversy surrounding exclusion of Kunukunuma community, Warri South West Local Government Area of Delta State, by NPDC as host community, OML 42, took another dimension, Friday, as neighboring community, Odidi affirmed Kunukunuma as non-host community, OML 42, stressing that Kunukunuma has no stake in the said oil field from time immemorial. A statement signed
The President of Ijaw Youth Council (IYC) Wordwide, Barr. Eric Omare has commended Acting President Yemi Osinbajo on his painstaking fact-finding tour of communities in Niger Delta states. This is just as the pressure group has called on the Federal Government to cap the fact-finding mission to the region with a dialogue with the people
Ijaw Peoples Development Initiative, IPDI, in Delta State, yesterday, said it was shocked at the continued detention of its spokesperson, Daniel Ezekiel, arrested by the Department of State Services, DSS, in August, last year, notwithstanding an alleged directive of acting President Yemi Osinbajo, that every Niger Delta youth arrested in connection with the current agitation
The Pere of Gbaramatu kingdom, His Royal Majesty, Oboro-Gbaraun 11, Aketekpe, Agadagba has appealed to the people of Kunukunuma federated community to suspend its planned shutdown of Nigerian Petroleum Development Company (NPDC) operation. The protest had been scheduled to hold this Friday, March 10, 2017 at Odidi field, Warri South West Local Government Area of
By Dinizibemo Ogboma The recession that came with the new Government, was not suitable for Tari. Apart from the fact that she had to battle with her mother’s ill health, she also had to pay for the upcoming WAEC exams. She believed that with her result from the exams, she would be able to get
A coalition of Niger Delta militants on Wednesday threatened to blow up Multichoice (DSTV), MTN, Shoprite and 16 other major South African investments in Nigeria if the Federal Government failed to close them down within one month. The militant groups, who were reacting to the ongoing xenophobic attacks on Nigerians and their businesses, gave one
As I left Ondo State on Monday February 21, I reflected on Acting President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo’s historic visits to oil producing states and wondered whether we from those states fully grasp the import. Do we realize what opportunities the visits offer, what alternatives they portend and the development miles we can make from them?
Dr. Tosan Harriman is a Professor of Comparative Dialectics and in this interview with GBARAMATU VOICE NEWSPAPER, ventured into a topic that many people in the country today will be too scared to talk about; the issue of High Chief Government Oweizide Ekpemopolo aka Tompolo. He wants government to ensure the take-off of the Maritime
The successful tour of some Niger Delta states by Acting President Yemi Osinbajo was achieved due to former president Goodluck Jonathan’s earlier visit to Gbaramatu kingdom. A coalition of Niger Delta militant groups, the Joint Revolutionary Council (JRC) said this in a statement issued to newsmen yesterday. The JRC spokesperson, Cynthia Whyte, said: “In the
If eventually approved the operation of the proposed moduler refinery will position oil bearing community to drive local economy. The Special Adviser to the President on Niger Delta and Coordinator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme, Brigadier General Paul Boroh (Rtd) has assured the people of the region that the proposed modular refineries in oil producing
The Labour Party (LP) yesterday accused its only member in the Senate, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege from Delta State of being behind the purported National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting that announced the sacking of its Chairman, Abdukadir Abdul Salam and three other National Working Committee members of the party. A faction of the party NEC met
The Ijaw National Congress, INC, Eastern Zone has condemned the harassment of a right activist, Ms. Ann-Kio Briggs who led a peaceful rally recently in Yenagoa, the state capital condemning the allocation of land to the Fulani herdsmen for grazing. Briggs who was physically assault by hoodlums at the venue of the rally told a
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