Following the nonpayment of verified Presidential Amnesty Programme’s contractors from November 2019 to date, coupled with the rumoured plan by the present administration to scrap the Amnesty Programme, aggrieved ex-militants in the Niger Delta region have indicated their interest to join the EndSARS protest platform to ask the National Security …

Association of Waterfront Coordinators has called on youths in Nigeria to tow the line of peace, following the ‘ENDSARS’ protest which turned violent over the past week. Addressing the press recently, president of the association, Comrade Sam Ateke, said that the protest which kicked off peacefully all over the country …

… Accuse NSA, NNPC of Plot to Under-develop Ijaw land, Niger Delta An Ijaw group, the Movement for the Survival of the Ijaw ethnic nationality of the Niger Delta, MOSIEND, has called on the Federal Government to release the seized marginal oil field which gave the state the right of an …

By Joel Anekwe Rivers State government, in line with the proscription order of the Federal Government, has reinforced a ban on activities of Indigenous Peoples Organization of Biafra (IPOB) in the state, adding that no form of procession or agitation by the group or any of its affiliates is allowed …

A passenger boat travelling from Port Harcourt to Bille in Rivers State was on Sunday, October25, 2020 attacked by sea pirates, leaving one person dead and several others missing. In a chat with our correspondent, former chairman of Bille Kingdom Community Development Committee, Asatubo Igbanibo Kemuel, said the activities of …

… Community Threatens to Shut Down Facilities The Ikarama community in Yenagoa Local Government Area of Bayelsa State, in conjunction with the  Environmental Rights Action/Friend of the Earth, ERA/FoEN, has called on Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria (SPDC) to embark on thorough remediation, clean up of their environment that …

The National Oil Spills Detection and Response Agency (NOSDRA) says it has subjected a section of the 14″ Okordia-Rumuekpe pipeline to third-pary examination in a bid to resolve the dispute on the cause of a November 12, 2019 leak at Shell’s oilfields in Bayelsa State. Shell Petroleum Development Company of …

Capacity building and security has been the bedrock of development and economic growth in Rivers State and the Niger Delta at large. In Okochiri, Okrika Local Government Area of Rivers State, the Amanyanabo of the community, King Ateke Michael Tom has created an impact that is deeply rooted in strengthening …

By Young Erhiurhoro I want to look at this topic from the layman’s view and not necessarily from the legal perspective. I have two cogent reasons for choosing this side of the coin. First, I’m not a legal practitioner by profession. Based on this, I wouldn’t define the three terms …

It was indeed glamour and fun-filled as the family of Hon. Ibinabo Senibo Ibibo, Councillor representing Ward 12 in Asari-Toru Local Government Area of Rivers State celebrated the first year anniversary of their daughter, Wealth Ibinabo Senibo Ibibo in Port Harcourt recently Children within and outside the Borikiri Axis of …