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.
By Faith Madogwe The Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, has called for the collaboration and support of Belgium in areas of health, environment, youth empowerment and development of critical infrastructure in the Niger Delta region. The NDDC Interim Administrator, Mr. Efiong Akwa, made the call when the Belgian Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr. Daniel Bertrand, paid
By Our Correspondent The Army will soon move against separatist agitators such as Asari Dokubo and Sunday Igboho, Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt. -Gen. Ibrahim Attahiru, has stated. Attahiru’s warning was delivered in Uyo at the first Commanding Officers’ Workshop 2021. Igboho recently unilaterally declared the South west part was no longer part of
By Our Correspondent Palpable tension and fears have enveloped the Egbemoru community in Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of Bayelsa State as gunmen, suspected to be former militants, set pipelines belonging to the Nigerian Agip Oil Company (NAOC) on fire. It was learnt that the development was due to an alleged supremacy battle between some
By Ebi Perekeme Preparation is already underway as High Chief Government Oweizide Ekpemupolo predominantly referred to as Tompolo by his admirers will lead teaming Ijaw sons and daughter across the nation to worship at this year’s Bini-ebi Madinorbo Annual Festival. The three days event is scheduled to hold between March 29 to 31 at
By Ebi Perekeme The Federal Government, on Monday, inaugurated the construction of six water projects worth N6 billion, in Ogoni communities in Rivers, as recommended by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP). The Minister of Environment, Dr. Mohammad Abubakar, said at the ceremony that the federal government was fully committed to actualising the UNEP recommendation that potable water should be
By Ebi Perekeme The 2,500 barrels per day modular refinery being established at Egbokor, Edo State, South South Nigeria, by Duport Midstream Company Limited in partnership with the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) will be ready for commissioning in the last quarter of this year. The Executive Secretary of NCDMB, Simbi Kesiye Wabote,
By Our Correspondent The people of Egbema kingdom in Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni Local Government Area of Rivers State have given a seventy-two-hour ultimatum to Nigerian Agip Oil Company to implement its 1999 Memorandum of Understanding, MoU, or face the anger of the communities. This was one of the highlights of a town hall meeting of the Egbema
By Faith Madogwe Ex-militants from the coastal area of Ondo State, on Monday, protested over their non-inclusion in the Presidential Amnesty Programme of the Federal Government, threatening to return to the creek if the Federal Government failed to include them in the programme. The angry protesters who are from the Ilaje and Ese-Odo Local Government
…Call on FG, DTSG to intervene …many are sick, others have lost their means of livelihood By Ebi Perekeme One week after the reported oil spillage in Polobubo and Opuama communities, Warri North Local Government Area of Delta state, the victims of the devastating spillage have again cried out to President Muhammadu Buhari and
By Our Correspondent Controversy over transparency of the marginal fields 2020 bid round processes has worsened the confidence of participants following alleged hijack by money bags determined to acquire some of the fields offered by the Department of Petroleum Resources ( DPR). According to the 2020 guideline, a marginal field is any field that has
By Our Correspondent Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Godswill Akpabio, has disclosed that the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) will spend N90b for the nine states of the region in its integrated agricultural programme to train youths in fish, rabbit and pig farming. Akpabio stated this when the French Ambassador to Nigeria, Jerome Pasquier, visited
By Our Correspondent The Akwa Ibom State Government has ended a week-long distribution of relief materials to victims of flood and fire disasters across the state. The Deputy Governor of Akwa Ibom, Mr. Moses Ekpo, urged residents last weekend while presenting materials last weekend to those living in riverine communities to ensure the safety of
By Ebi Perekeme The Bayelsa State Government has raised the alarm over increasing espionage activities in most communities in the state. It also said unconfirmed security reports indicated that there was a mass build up of arms in various forests by people with sinister plans, who come into the state under the pretext of carrying
The federal government may consider selling the Port Harcourt refinery after the planned rehabilitation which is put at the cost of $1.5 billion, Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Chief Timipre Sylva has revealed. Speaking on Sunday diring Channels Television programme ‘Politics Today’, the Minister who was responding to questions on why the federal government
By Ebi Perekeme Former Governor of Delta State, Dr. Emmanuel Eweta Uduaghan, has condoled with his former deputy, Prof. Amos Agbe Utuama over the demise of his wife, late Dr (Mrs) Tuwere Nelly Utuama. GbaramatuVoice reports Dr. (Mrs.) Utuama died after a brief illness at the age of 65 years. Dr. Uduaghan’s condolence message was
…warn oil firms to evacuate staff immediately By Our Correspondent Militants under the umbrella body of Unyekisong Akwa Ibom have asked all multinational oil companies operating in the state to vacate with immediate effect. A statement by the leader and deputy of the group, General Dede Udofia and Major Ibanga Ekang, respectively, said the vacation
By Ebi Perekeme It was a tale of tears and sorrow as a 73-year-old widow, Hannah Teacher, of Okerenkoko town in Gbaramatu kingdom, Warri South West Local Government Area of Delta State, on Friday, died from kerosene explosion. The incident, it was gathered, happened around 9pm on Thursday (March 19, 2021) in her building, throwing
By Ebi Perekeme The Bilabiri community in Ekeremor Local Government Area of Bayelsa State has called on the military Joint Task Force (JTF) to flush out criminals from the community. The community, in a letter dated March 21, appealed to the JTF deployed to protect oil facilities in the Niger Delta to deploy its surveillance
By Our Correspondent There Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA, has given reason for moving its multi million Floating Dockyard to the Continental Ship yard on Dockyard Road in Apapa, saying that the shipyard has all auxiliary engineering services provision to service the floating dock. Speaking to newsmen during a tour of the dock
By Our Correspondent The National Inland Waterways Authority (NIWA) has commenced the rehabilitation of Burutu port in Burutu Local Government Area of Delta State, as part of efforts to decongest the Lagos ports. The Managing Director of NIWA, Dr George Moghalu, made the disclosure while inspecting the ongoing reactivation work at the Burutu port. When
By Enaibo Asiayei Residents of Tebujor/Okpeleama Community in Gbaramatu kingdom, Warri South West Local Government Area of Delta state, has inaugurated a new executive council to direct affairs of the community in the next three years. Those sworn-in were, Mr. Terry Tortor, Chairman; Mr. Wilson Mala, Vice Chairman; Mr. Raphael Toju Erike, General Secretary. Others
By Our Correspondent Sole Administrator, Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP), Col. Milland Dixon Dikio (red) has tasked ex-agitators in the Niger Delta to be ready to learn the modalities of owning and running modular refineries. Dikio stated this at a summit with the theme “Integrating local artisanal modular refineries to Nigeria’s mainstream oil sector” held in
By Our Correspondent A Milan court yesterday acquitted energy companies, Eni and Royal Dutch Shell, along with some of their past and present managers, including Eni Chief Executive, Claudio Descalzi, in one of the oil industry’s biggest corruption scandals. The judgment read out in court by Judge Marco Tremolada, came more than three years after
By Our Correspondent The house of representatives has directed its committee on petroleum (upstream) to investigate an alleged failure of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) to address the challenges confronting the Warri refinery. The decision of the house followed a motion moved by Ben Igbakpa, lawmaker representing Ethiope federal constituency, during plenary session on
By Our Correspondent The Federal Government has approved the sum of $1.5bn for the rehabilitation of the Port Harcourt Refinery. The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Timipre Sylva, stated this while briefing newsmen at the end of the Federal Executive Council, FEC, meeting presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari at the Council Chamber, Presidential
…Senate Committee to investigate Niger Delta governors The Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) has claimed that it gave each of the governors of the nine oil-producing states N100million each as COVID-19 palliatives. Chairman, Senate Committee on Ethics Privileges and Public Petitions, Senator Patrick Ayo Akinyelure, told reporters in Abuja that NDDC officials made the claim.
A paramount ruler in Niger Delta, His Royal Majesty, King Obukowho Whiskey, has renewed the call for President Muhammadu Buhari to return the supervision of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) to the Presidency for proper monitoring of the agency. King Whiskey, Udurhie I, Ovie of Idjerhe Kingdom, in Ethiope West Local Government Area of
By Our Correspondent The integration of artisanal and modular refinery operators into mainstream oil and gas sector promotes the inclusion of more local content in the industry and advance the use of home-grown technology in the refining of petroleum products, according to Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, SAN. Osinbajo stated this today (Tuesday) in an address
By Ebi Perekeme The Polobubo/Opuama Communities in Delta state are counting their loses following an oil and gas spillage which ravaged the area last weekend. It was learnt that the incident which left casualties, occurred in the early hours of Sunday, March 14, 2021. The deceased victim is Pa Anthony Ebiogbo of Opuama community who
All is set to launch the entire Delta state into the new and current digital age with the launch of Vision X digital service, GbaramatuVoice reports. The CEO and Managing Director of Vision X Crypto Services Limited, Mr. Amare Nelson at a pre-launch ceremony in Warri, to educate stakeholders on the advantages of the product,
Finally, the remains of late oil magnate and renowned philanthropist, High Chief Olu Benson Lulu-Briggs, were yesterday laid to rest in his hometown, Abonnema, in Akuku-Toru Local Government Area of Rivers State. Former President Goodluck Jonathan, his wife Patience; wife of President Muhammad Buhari, Aisha; and Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, were among dignitaries
A Non-Governmental Organisation, Women for Justice Initiative (WJI) has appealed that Mrs. Seinye O.B. Lulu Briggs should be allowed to play prominent roles in the burial activities of her late husband. In a statement in Lagos, the group said Mrs. Seinye O.B. Lulu should not be sidelined in the burial activities of her late husband.
By Our Correspondent Rivers Governor Nyesom Wike has drawn the battle line with Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Senator Godswill Akpabio, over the latter’s recent verbal attack on South-South governors. Wike threatened to deal with Akpabio if he dared speak negatively about Rivers State, insisting that Akpabio had no authority to talk about his state.
By Ebi Perekeme The Acting Director Health Services, Nigeria Maritime University, Okerenkoko, Warri South West Local Government Area of Delta State, Dr. Clarkson Agagha has said that the management of the Institution never abandoned a 100 level civil engineering student of the Institution Okpeku Emmanuel Oyi Osalobuah to die. Dr. Agagha said on Wednesday that
By Faith Madogwe Elder Statesman in Benikrukru United Community, Gbaramatu kingdom, Warri South West Local Government Area of Delta State, Pa Officer Samson Kalaposiwei-Ojogun, has died at the age of 80. His daughter Loveth Ojogun, a GbaramatuVoice journalist based in Warri, said her father died Wednesday morning. Pa Ojogun is survived by wives, 17 children,
