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Flood: DESOPADEC distributes relief materials to Ijaw ethnic nationality

Flood: DESOPADEC distributes relief materials to Ijaw ethnic nationality As part of its resolve to providing succor to the flood displaced victims in the state, Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission (DESOPADEC) on Tuesday, October 18, 2022, distributed relief materials purchased for the victims of the ravaging flood waters that have overwhelmed and taken

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Maritime News

Crude Oil Theft: Nigerian Navy hands over vessels, crew to EFCC for investigation 

Crude Oil Theft: Nigerian Navy hands over vessels, crew to EFCC for investigation  Two vessels, MT Platform and MV Caribbean Crest alongside a crew of 22 suspected oil thieves were on Tuesday, October 18, 2022 handed over to the EFCC for further investigation and possible prosecution by the Nigerian Navy. Commanding officer of the Nigerian

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National News

Senate summons Niger Delta minister over alleged plot to divert NDDC’s 480b funds

Senate summons Niger Delta minister over alleged plot to divert NDDC’s 480b funds The Senate has summoned the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Mr. Umana Okon Umana, over alleged plot to siphon N480 billion intervention fund belonging to the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC and domicile it in the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, without

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News

Flood: Declare Niger Delta emergency zone, NDYC tells Federal Government 

Flood: Declare Niger Delta emergency zone, NDYC tells Federal Government  …Seeks NNPC, IOCs assistance Niger Delta Youth Council (NDYC) , has urged the Federal Government to urgently declare the Niger Delta region of the country an emergency zone in ways that will radically address the challenges posed by flood to the people and the environment.

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Editorial

Flooding: Ecological funds and governments that failed their people

Flooding: Ecological funds and governments that failed their people By GbaramatuVoice Editorial Board  As flood continues to ravage many of the Southern States of the country and Niger Delta region in particular, GbaramatuVoice Newspaper sympathizes with affected/displaced Nigerians. Notably, GbaramtuVoice within this period visited so many of the affected victims in various villages and towns

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Opinion

DESOPADEC and the Fifty Grass Cutting Machines

DESOPADEC and the Fifty Grass Cutting Machines By Jerome-Mario Chijioke Utomi The recent news report that Delta State Oil Producing Area Development Commission (DESPADEC) donated fifty (50) grass cutting machines, to the good people of Okerenkoko community in Gbaramatu Kingdom, Warri South Local Government of Delta state, has again shows an agency that is yet

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National News

Army chief flags off ‘Exercise Still Water’ to curb oil theft in Niger Delta

Army chief flags off ‘Exercise Still Water’ to curb oil theft in Niger Delta The Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant Gen. Farouk Yahaya, on Tuesday flagged off three joint military exercises to curb oil theft, banditry, cultism, kidnapping and other criminalities across the country. The joint military exercises namely, Exercise Golden Dawn is expected to

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National News

Wike endorses Sanwo-Olu for second term, donates N300 million to Lagos women

Wike endorses Sanwo-Olu for second term, donates N300 million to Lagos women Rivers State Governor, Barr. Nyesom Wike, on Tuesday declared total support for the re-election bid of Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu in the 2023 general elections. Wike who has been running battle with his political party, People’s Democratic Party (PDP) over the emergency

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News

Presidential Amnesty Programme originally designed to end in 2015, says Ndiomu

Presidential Amnesty Programme originally designed to end in 2015, says Ndiomu The Interim Administrator, Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP), Maj.-Gen Barry Ndiomu (retd), has explained the policy document of the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP), saying it was originally designed to end in 2015. Ndiomu, who spoke after a crucial meeting with the King of Okochiri in

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News Oil & Gas

Nigeria’s crude oil production to increase next week – Kyari, NNPC Boss

Nigeria’s crude oil production to increase next week – Kyari, NNPC boss The Group Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, NNPCL, Mele Kyari , has given indication that NNPCL will resume pumping of crude oil through its pipelines assets within the next one week. The Group Chief Executive Officer of the

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News

GbaramatuVoice opens Interventionist Food Bank for flood victims

GbaramatuVoice opens Interventionist Food Bank for flood victims As part of our Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), GbaramatuVoice will on Monday, October 17, 2022, open its usual Interventionist Food Bank for people affected by the flood in Delta coastal communities and its environs. Established in January 2020, GbaramatuVoice Interventionist Food Bank programme is an initiative aimed

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Editorial

An open letter to Major General Barry Ndiomu (rtd.), New Interim Administrator, Presidential Amnesty Programme

An open letter to Major General Barry Ndiomu (rtd.), New Interim Administrator, Presidential Amnesty Programme By GbaramatuVoice Editorial Board Dear sir, Members of the Editorial Board, GbaramatuVoice Newspaper, writes to congratulate you on your recent appointment as the Interim Coordinator, Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP). While the newspaper congratulates you for this feat achieved, it equally

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News

Increase surveillance contract sum paid Tompolo for optimum performance, Asonja, Ilaje youth leader tells FG

Increase surveillance contract sum paid Tompolo for optimum performance, Asonja, Ilaje youth leader tells FG …Says Tompolo should be considered for National Honor …Hails Pondi, Tantita’s MD High Chief Asonja Idowu, frontline youth ambassador and prominent stakeholder of Ilaje extraction in Ondo state, has called on the Group Chief Executive Officer of Nigerian National Petroleum

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Editorial

Warri South West Local Government and contradiction of leadership understanding in Delta state

Warri South West Local Government and contradiction of leadership understanding in Delta state By GbaranmatuVoice Editorial Board It is now evident that the greatest public leadership challenge that has befallen Delta as a state is largely attributable to the leaders’ lack of political will to transform the state. This situation is made worse by followers’

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Special Report

DELTA: Tears, sorrow and blood as Patani community battles flooding

DELTA: Tears, sorrow and blood as Patani community battles flooding …we are going through tough times – Pere of Kabowei Kingdom ..says he will remain in the flood with his subjects “I will be the last person to flee the kingdom while my subjects are suffering”  GbaramatuVoice on Thursday, October 13, 2022, as it has

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Opinion

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s objectification of Timiebi

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s objectification of Timiebi BY EKANPOU ENEWARIDIDEKE The proverbially universal truth remains that it takes one brave act for alligator to cut itself open one day for a targeted daring task.Allergic to the pains of a fruitless journey I must reveal quite early like the persona in Wole Soyinka”s ‘Telephone Conversation’ that I

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Education News

DELTA: Inside Egbema schools where students learn in poor conditions 

DELTA: INSIDE EGBEMA SCHOOLS WHERE STUDENTS LEARN IN POOR CONDITIONS  GbaramatuVoice recently visited Egbema kingdom in Warri North Local Government Area of Delta state, on a fact finding mission. Some of the communities visited include: Opuama, Polobubo, Ogbudugbudu, and Ogbinbiri communities. Below are the pictures of Oloduwa Primary and Secondary Schools in Opuama community. The

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National News

[PHOTOS] NNPCL, top security agencies, others visit newly discovered illegal pipeline in Delta

[PHOTOS] NNPCL, top security agencies, others visit newly discovered illegal pipeline in Delta Senior officials of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL), top security personnel and the media, today, inspected the newly discovered illegal crude oil pipeline connected to the Trans Forcados Export Trunkline and linked to an abandoned platform in the high sea

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National News

BREAKING: Tompolo discovers another major illegal crude oil pipeline at Trans Forcados Pipeline in Delta [Video]

BREAKING: Tompolo discovers another major illegal crude oil pipeline at Trans Forcados Pipeline in Delta [Video] [EXCLUSIVE] Tompolo makes another shocking discovery in Delta, detects illegal oil pipeline connected to high sea Watch GbaramatuVoice Exclusive video below…

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Breaking News

[EXCLUSIVE] Tompolo makes another shocking discovery in Delta, detects illegal oil pipeline connected to high sea

[EXCLUSIVE] Tompolo makes another shocking discovery in Delta, detects illegal oil pipeline connected to high sea The Tantita Security Services Nigeria Limited, a company owned by High Chief Government Ekpemupolo aka Tompolo, has discovered another massive illegal crude oil pipeline attached to Trans Forcados Export Trunkline connected directly to the high sea in Delta state.

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National News

BREAKING: Finally, ASUU suspends strike 8-months after

BREAKING: Finally, ASUU suspends strike 8-months after The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has suspended its eight-month-old strike conditionally. The union decided to suspend the strike during a meeting of its leadership that started on Thursday night and lasted into the early hours of Friday. The meeting was called by the union to determine

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Breaking News

BREAKING: Appeal Court frees Nnamdi Kanu

BREAKING: Appeal Court frees Nnamdi Kanu The Court of Appeal, Abuja Division has set free, the leader of the Indeginous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu of the treasonable felony charges preferred against him by the Federal Government. The three-member panel of Justices of the Appellate Court, in a judgement delivered on Thursday, set aside

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News

DELTA: Benikrukru community unveils new executive as Tonjoh emerges chairman 

DELTA: Benikrukru community unveils new executive as Tonjoh emerges chairman  …Work in one accord to succeed – Eris, Outgoing Chairman …I’ll serve with the fear of God – Tonjoh, Incoming Chairman The electoral committee of Benikrukru community in Gbaramatu Kingdom, Warri South West Local Government Area of Delta state, on Wednesday, October 12, October, 2022,

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National News

Niger Delta: New amnesty boss orders probe of workers over sales of scholarship slots

Niger Delta: New amnesty boss orders probe of workers over sales of scholarship slots …Slots sold to non-Niger Deltans as high as N650,000 The Interim Administrator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme, Maj.-Gen. Barry Ndiomu (rtd), has ordered an investigation into the alleged sale of scholarship slots by some staff members of the agency. According to

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News Oil & Gas

Shell sets to resume crude oil exports at Forcados Terminal

Shell sets to resume crude oil exports at Forcados Terminal The Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Limited (SPDC) said, the Forcados Oil Terminal will resume export operations by the end of October 2022 when ongoing essential repairs would have been completed. “In addition to the repairs, we are working to remove and clamp theft

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Editorial

Dear Governor Okowa, please where is the promised Warri/Uvwie and Environs Development Agency?

Dear Governor Okowa, please where is the promised Warri/Uvwie and Environs Development Agency? By GbaramatuVoice Editorial Board When Senator Ifeanyi Okowa, the Executive Governor of Delta State, announced on Wednesday, May 1, 2019, at a victory concert organized in Asaba, Delta state that plans are underway to establish Warri/Uvwie and Environs Development Agency, to address

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News

Oborevwori vs Edevbie: Supreme Court fixes Oct 21 for Judgment on Delta PDP governorship ticket

Oborevwori vs Edevbie: Supreme Court fixes Oct 21 for Judgment on Delta PDP governorship ticket The Supreme Court has fixed Friday, October 21, 2022 for judgment in an appeal filed by the Delta State governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2023 governorship election, Chief David Edevbie. By his appeal, Edevbie is asking

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INTERVIEWS

[EXCLUSIVE] Why we constructed Nigerian Content Tower – Simbi Wabote, NCDMB Boss

[EXCLUSIVE] Why we constructed Nigerian Content Tower – Simbi Wabote, NCDMB boss “We can surmount our developmental challenges in the Niger Delta and in Nigeria if we have the right leadership and mindset.” In this exclusive interview with GbaramatuVoice, Engr. Simbi Kesiye Wabote, Executive Secretary, Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB), speaks on the

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Special Report

Warri South West Local Government: Councilors, workers, indigenes lament infrastructural decay, poor leadership of council’s chairman

Warri South West Local Government: Councilors, workers, indigenes lament infrastructural decay, poor leadership of council’s chairman GbaramatuVoice reliably gathered from a serving councilor that the administration of the current local government chairman appears to be the worst the council has ever recorded.

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National News

RIVERS: Wike appoints 14,000 advisers, 319 liaison officers

RIVERS: Wike appoints 14,000 advisers, 319 liaison officers Rivers State governor, Nyesom Wike, has appointed 14,000 advisers for various political units in the state. In a statement signed by his Special Assistant on Media, Kelvin Ebiri on Tuesday, the governor said the advisers will play a vital role in the administration. ALSO READ: Wike demands

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Special Report

International Day of the Girl 2022: GbaramatuVoice felicitates Niger Delta girls

International Day of the Girl 2022: GbaramatuVoice felicitates Niger Delta girls …Says it’s no longer fashionable for girls to travel miles in a canoe to access education. …Calls on Niger Delta governors to invest more in girls child education The GbaramatuVoice Newspper writes to felicitate with every girl child in Nigeria particularly in the Niger

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National News

Ebikeme, APC Chieftain congratulates Omo-Agege on award of National Honour

Ebikeme, APC Chieftain congratulates Omo-Agege on award of National Honour …says award will usher victory for DSP in the forthcoming Delta guber race The Director General, Contact and Mobilization, Ovie Omo Agege Campaign Organization, Chief Bosin Ebikeme, has joined the list of prominent Nigerians that congratulated the Deputy Senate President, Obarisi Ovie Omo Agege, on

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Breaking News

BREAKING: Police arrest popular Nigerian singer, Harrysong, at Lagos airport

BREAKING: Police arrest popular Nigerian singer, Harrysong, at Lagos airport Popular Nigerian Singer, Harrison Tare Okiri, aka Harrysong, has been arrested by the Nigerian police on arrival in Lagos. The singer was picked up by officers of the Lagos State Police command after he arrived in Nigeria on Tuesday morning. Speaking about the development, the

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Editorial

Update on how Tompolo’s Tantita is improving the nation’s economy, making Niger Delta region livable

Update on how Tompolo’s Tantita is improving the nation’s economy, making Niger Delta region livable By GbaramatuVoice Editorial Board As part of efforts to keep the global community abreast with developments in the Niger Delta region, Nigeria, GbaramatuVoice Newspaper authoritatively reports without mincing words that High Chief Government Ekpemupolo aka Tompolo, the Ibe-Ebidouwei of Ijaw

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National News

Details of how Nigerian military set ablaze the ship intercepted by Tompolo conveying stolen crude oil to Ghana

Details of how Nigerian military set ablaze the ship intercepted by Tompolo conveying stolen crude oil to Ghana The illegal oil bunkering vessel recently arrested with about 600 to 650 tons of illegally lifted crude oil in five compartments in Niger Delta creek was on Monday, October 10, 2022, destroyed by Officers of the Nigerian

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