Human and environmental rights activist, Ann-Kio Briggs, has stated that Niger Delta stakeholders demanded engagement of a reputable audit firm for the Niger Delta Development Commission
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Fresh row over NDDC: No to new interim administrator, yes to new board – Senator Ekpeyong
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…Govt shouldn’t envision stop gap arrangement – Bishop Egbebo
By Emma Amaize, Regional Editor, South-South, Sam Oyadongha, Jimitota Onoyume, Gabriel Enogholase, Festus Ahon, Egufe Yafugborhi, Emmanuel Una, Ike Uchechukwu, Chioma Onuegbu, Emem Idio, Perez Brisibe, Ozioruva Aliu, Chancel Sunday and Paul Olayemi
SOME leaders of the South-South are dissatisfied with the state of affairs at the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, urging President Muhammadu to inaugurate the governing Board of the interventionist agency vetted and ratified by the Senate, since last year.
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CIVIL WAR: ‘Nigeria more divided now than in 1967’
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•No basis for Nigeria’s unity – Nnamdi Kanu
By Clifford Ndujihe, Political Editor
YEESTERDAY, January 15, marked exactly 51 years of the end of the 30-month Nigerian-Biafran Civil War that claimed an estimated three million lives on both sides.
After the war, the Nigerian military regime of General Yakubu Gowon declared that there was no victor, no vanquished. He unfurled a three-pronged Programme of reconstruction, rehabilitation and reconciliation to heal the wounds of the war and reintegrate the then Eastern Region, especially the Igbo, into Nigeria.
Fifty decades and a year after it is arguable if progress has been made on this score.
Ijaw Forum canvasses adoption of community-based initiative to tackle insecurity
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By Adesina Wahab
To stem the rising tide of insecurity in the country, the Ijaw Elders’ Consultative Forum has called for the adoption of the community-based initiative, expressing optimism that it will work.
This is just as the group promised to work with the relevant stakeholders in the Niger Delta region to ensure the safety of lives and property of the people.
The group stated this in a communique issued at the end of its meeting held in Port Harcourt, Rivers State.
The Forum noted with concern the militarization of the region as well as the rising tension, stressing the need for a collaborative effort to promote the community-based initiative on security.
• Insists On Restructuring
Irked by the alleged double standard displayed by the Federal Government in the Zamfara gold mining saga, individuals and interest groups in the Niger Delta are, among other things, calling for an amendment to the Petroleum Act and the Mining Act.
They also want in place, an equilibrating mechanism, where oil-bearing states in the region are allowed to own and explore resources in their domain and pay taxes to the central government (as done in true federalism), and in line with the tacit granting of resource ownership to northern states including Katsina, Zamfara, and Kaduna by the government.