Tag Archives: Benjamin Okaba

… FTAN Advocates Tourism Ministry, Inaugurates Chapter in Yenagoa By Amos Odhe, Yenagoa Following the official inauguration of the Bayelsa State chapter of the Federation of Tourism Associations of Nigeria (FTAN) over the weekend in Yenagoa, the state government has stressed the urgent need for synergy between the public and …

Ijaw National Congress (INC), Eastern Zone last week, held Ijaw Unity Rally with the theme, ‘Ijaw United for One Nigeria.’ The event, which started with a procession of notable Ijaw sons and daughters along major roads and streets of Port Harcourt, terminated at Abuloma Secondary School Field, venue of the …

By Amos Odhe, Yenagoa Dignitaries and stakeholders have paid tributes to a foremost Niger Delta ex-agitator, Victor-Ben Ebikabowei, aka, ‘General’ Boyloaf as he turned 50. The Bayelsa State governor, Senator Douye Diri; the interim administrator, Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP), Col. Milland Dixon Dikio (rtd), and the president of the Ijaw …

… Advocates Devolution of Power By Amos Odeh, Yenagoa Bayelsa State governor, Senator Douye Diri, has charged the Ijaw nation leaders to relentlessly speak out on issues of injustice and under-development confronting the ethnic nationality until they are addressed. Senator Diri stated this on Saturday at the All Ijaw Summit …

By Amos Odhe, Yenagoa The pan-Ijaw group, the Ijaw National Congress, INC, has frowned at the existence of a bill “purportedly sponsored by 59 members of the House of Representatives, who are of Northern extraction, with an intent to delete section 162 sub-section 2 of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal …

… Okaba Urges Them to Promote Unity The crème de la crème of the society converged at Abuloma Town Hall in Port Harcourt City Local Government Area to witness the epoch inauguration of the executive council of the Ijaw National Congress, Eastern Zone recently. The hall was full to the …

By Aherhoke Okioma, Yenagoa  The pan Ijaw National Congress (INC), Central Zone, on Saturday elected new executive council (EXCO) members to run its affairs, after the zone suffered lack of leadership for many years. The INC Central Zone is comprised of the entire Bayelsa State and some of the Ijaw …

By Amos Odeh, Yenagoa A Niger Delta group, Meinbutus Worldwide and the Ijaw National Congress (INC) have restated their commitment towards the actualization of a common interest for the development of the Ijaw ethnic nationality and the Niger Delta region. This Port Harcourt Mundial learnt Tuesday during a courtesy visit …

Bayelsa State governor, Senator Douye Diri, has urged the new leadership of the Ijaw National Congress (INC) to build linkages at home and abroad in order to successfully address the Ijaw nation’s challenges. Governor Diri, who expressed confidence in the capacity of the new leadership to effectively champion the cause …

… Warns It will Encourage Resource Control’ The dean of the School of Post Graduate Studies, Federal University, Otuoke, Bayelsa State, Prof Benjamin Okaba, has played down the purported embargo of food stuffs to the south by some northern groups, noting that there was no need for panic as the …