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.
…NNPC seeks board approval for refineries’ financiers this month …eyes 90 per cent capacity utilization The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) yesterday said that out of the 35 interests that were indicated in modular refineries, the Department of Petroleum Resources ( DPR ) had issued licenses to 13. The Group Managing Director, Dr. Maikanti Baru,
Ahead of the Delta State Principal’s Cup competition sponsored by Zenith Bank Plc, with the kick-off date slated for January 23rd, Comrade Sheriff Mulade, has called on Ijaw youths of Delta extraction to embrace sports as one of the keys to unlocking their God-given talents. Mulade stated this in a chat with GbaramatuVoice correspondent on
Following the statement released on Tuesday by the former president of Nigeria, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo on issues affecting the nation and his stand in President Buhari’s re-run in 2019, Presidency on Tuesday said ‘We won’t comment now’. Obasanjo’s special statement which can be categorised as a letter criticised the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari and
The Special Adviser to the President on Niger Delta, Brig.-Gen. Paul Boroh (Rtd), has assured Ijaw youths that President Muhammadu Buhari would not abandon them. Boroh, also the Coordinator, Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP) said this when 25 Ijaw Youths groups held a rally at the gates of the Presidential Amnesty Office in Abuja on Tuesday.
Gunmen, suspected to be pirates, have killed two policemen and injured an Assistant Superintendent of Police in a gun duel in Bayelsa State. It was learnt that the incident took place on Tuesday at Ogbia waterside in Ogbia Local Government Area of the state. At the end of the gunfire, two policemen attached to the
Youths from the Niger Delta region on Monday called on President Buhari to sustain the Presidential Amnesty Programme for ex-militants in the region. The youths urged the president not to allow the gains recorded through the Programme to be truncated prematurely. President Buhari, in his inaugural address in 2015, had said his government would begin
Multi-award winning newspaper, GbaramatuVoice has raised the bar in news gathering in the Niger Delta region and will next week launch a top-of-the-rack mobile and tablet App, in its resolve to widen its market reach and share. The numero uno online platform also plans to apprise its teeming mobile followers with news even as it
Edo State Governor, Mr Godwin Obaseki has said that the construction of the 5,500 barrels-per-day-(bpd)-capacity Edo Modular Refinery will commence in the next three months to create jobs, train youths and guarantee availability of petroleum products. Obaseki said this at the weekend during the APC Mega Rally at the Samuel Ogbemudia Stadium in Benin City,
The General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor Enoch Adejare Adeboye, has congratulated the national coordinator of Oodua Peoples Congress, Otunba Gani Adams, on his installation as the 15th Aare Ona Kakanfo of Yorubaland by the Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi III. Adeboye in a congratulatory letter to Adams, dated January
The outgoing Flag Officer Commanding (FOC), Central Naval Command, Rear Adm. Abubakar Al-Hassan, said the Command had destroyed over 712 illegal refining units in the last seven months. Al-Hassan disclosed this during the sendforth parade organised in his honour on Monday in Warri at the premises of the Nigerian Navy Ship (NNS), Delta, Warri Naval
Former international football star, George Weah, has today been sworn in as Liberia’s new president, in the country’s first transition between democratically-elected leaders since 1944. Weah, 51, took over from Nobel laureate Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, who spent 12 years at the helm, steering the West African nation away from the trauma of a civil war.
The Delta State Government on Sunday berated the immediate past governor of Edo State, Mr. Adams Oshiomhole, over his alleged comment that the All Progressives Congress would extend its coast in the South-South by installing an APC governor in Delta State. Oshiomhole had during a mega rally of the APC held at the Samuel Ogbemudia
…as Chief Chika Okpala, known as Chief Zebrudaya alias 4.30 bags MBA Former President Olusegun Obasanjo, (Dr) has told President Muhammadu Buhari that he must step on toes of friends and well-wishers in order to achieve the desired transformation and change agenda of his administration. Obasanjo, said hard choices must be made consciously or unconsciously
Three persons were, yesterday, attacked by herdsmen at Ovwor community in Ughelli North Local Government Area of Delta State, while another lady was reportedly raped in what was described as reprisal attacks by the herdsmen. The attack is coming less than a month after a herdsman was killed while another was maimed during an alleged
About 250 private schools in Bayelsa State are to be shut for failing to meet required standards. The state Commissioner for Education, Mr Jonathan Obuebite, who disclosed this yesterday in Yenagoa, said some of the schools operate in one bedroom apartment which is not conducive for learning. He said though some of the schools have
The Islamic State in West Africa (ISWA) network operating within some North Central and South-South sections of Nigeria may be responsible for the recent killings recorded in Benue State and other parts of the country. This information is said to be contained in an intelligence report presented to President Muhammadu Buhari by security agencies, including
The Ologbotsere (Traditional Prime Minister) of Warri (Itsekiri Nation), Chief Ayiri Emami, speaks on the recent memo by the Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami, to the National Assembly on the Nigerian Maritime University. What is the reaction of the Itsekiri people to the recent memo by the Attorney General of the Federation, Mr. Abubakar
Deputy Governor of Delta State and Chair, Delta State Advocacy Committee Against Vandalism of Oil and Gas Facilities, Barr. Kingsley Burutu Otuaro, has appealed to the Niger Delta Avengers to sheathe their swords and come to the dialogue table. The NDA hinted days ago of intention to attack critical oil assets in resumed programme tagged
The tension at Onicha-Olona community in Aniocha North Local Government Area of Delta State, occasioned by the killing of a farmer by Fulani herdsmen on Friday has been doused. A middle-aged man believed to hail from Ebonyi State was shot dead in his farm on Agba Road at about 3.00 p.m on the fateful day
Some people suspected to be Fulani herdsmen on Sunday reportedly attacked the farm of a former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Chief Olu Falae, located at Ilado Village in Akure North Local Government Area of Ondo State. It was gathered that the hoodlums did not steal anything on the farm but burnt down
The eight months’ salary owed to primary school teachers in Bayelsa has caused the indefinite closure of all public schools. Secondary school teachers are also owed three months arrears of salary. The schools have been shut since January 9 when the teachers embarked on strike in the oil rich state. Parents and school children on
•Says, Jonathan still paying election liabilities Former Career Diplomat and retired Permanent Secretary, Ambassador Godknows Boladei Igali, has said that former President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, has remained one of the poorest former Nigerian leaders, even in Africa, in recent years. Ambassador Igali also said that the immediate past Nigerian President was currently struggling to settle
The Federal High Court in Lagos has ruled that Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has “sufficient interest to bring its suit to stop former governors and now serving senators and ministers from receiving double pay and life pensions, and to seek recovery of over N40bn of public funds unduly received by these public officers.”
A helicopter suspected to be loaded with arms and ammunition was, last night, reported to have landed in a village called Jibu, located along River Benue, near Ibi, in Wukari Local Government Area of Taraba State. Senior Special Assistant to Governor Darius Ishaku on Media and Publicity, Mr. Bala Dan-Abu, said that the arms and
President Muhammadu Buhari on Saturday, congratulated former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo for bagging a doctorate degree at the National Open University, NOUN. Buhari described Obasanjo as the “Father of Open and Distance Education in Nigeria.’’ The former President, who was among the 14,769 graduands, was conferred with Doctor of Philosophy in Christian Theology, which made
Immediate past governor of Edo state and leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, yesterday at a mega rally of the party in Benin City, declared that President Muhammadu Buhari achievement will give the party victory over the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), adding that the party would extend its
The people of Ugborodo community in Warri South West Local Government Area of Delta State have maintained that they are not part of Warri Kingdom, insisting that they are autonomous Kingdom. They commended the House of Representatives for passing the Bill Establishing the Nigerian Maritime University, Okerenkoko into Law and urged the Federal Government to
Youths from Ijaw extraction in the nine states of the Niger Delta have condemned the killings going on across the country by suspected Fulani herdsmen, calling on the government to put an end to the senseless killings. The youths, under the auspices of Niger Delta Youth Leadership Forum, also demanded the establishment of oil and
Mrs Marie Ebikake, a former Commissioner for Transport in Bayelsa abducted by gunmen on the same day (Sunday) with a soldier in separate incidents in Bayelsa, has regained freedom. Ebikake was freed at about 3 a.m. on Friday, but the fate of the soldier remains unknown. Bayelsa Police Spokesman, DSP Asinim Butswat, confirmed the development
The Deputy Governor of Delta State, Kingsley Otuaro, has said no amount of force or deployment of Nigerian military would best secure oil and gas installations in the Niger Delta region other than the direct involvement of host communities where such facilities are located. Otuaro, who doubled as the Chairman of the Advocacy Committee Against
…Dickson galvanizes Ijaw to progressive actions …says; “Our enemies are taking advantage of vacuum among us.” Ijaw traditional rulers and leaders from the six states of Akwa Ibom, Bayelsa, Delta, Edo, Ondo, and Rivers, on Friday converged in Yenagoa to discuss issues of collective interests and well being of the people. The meeting which was
•Players will have access to wives, girlfriends on designated days With the 21st edition of the FIFA World Cup billed to take place in the summer of June 14 to July 15, 2018 in Russia, Super Eagles gaffer Gernot Rohr has expressed confidence that the Super Eagles stood a chance of advancing from Group D of the
The Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra on Friday asked the Federal Government to stop harassing the family of former President Goodluck Jonathan, especially his wife, Patience. The group described what the wife of the former president was passing through as a witch-hunt and character assassination. The leader of MASSOB, Uchenna
…I was reckless in military uniform – President President Muhammadu Buhari said on Thursday night that he went temporarily into coma when former President Goodluck Jonathan called to congratulate him on his victory in the 2015 presidential election. The President stated this when he hosted All Progressives Congress (APC) leaders to a dinner at the
Other aspects of the bill will be handled by joint c’ttee of both Houses – Saraki With the passage of the Petroleum Industry Governance Bill (PIGB) by the House of Representatives on Wednesday, the Speaker of the House Hon. Yakubu Dogara Thursday urged President Muhammadu Buhari to, as a matter of urgency, sign into law
