By Davies Iheamnachor
A former President of Ijaw Youths Council, IYC, Worldwide, Udengs Eradiri, has advised youths from Ijaw nation to shelve their plans to shut down the Niger Delta region in the protest designed to compel President Muhammadu Buhari to inaugurate a substantive board for the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC.
Eradiri, who is the Special Assistant on Youth Matters to the Interim Administrator, NDDC, Effiong Akwa, in a statement in Port Harcourt pleaded with the youths to reconsider such move considering the prevailing security situations in the country.
Eradiri noted that the current security situation was not good for protest by a large crowd, adding that hoodlums could infiltrate and shed the blood of innocent lives.
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IYC urged to shun planned protest over NDDC board
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By Davies Iheamnachor
A former President of Ijaw Youths Council, IYC, Worldwide, Udengs Eradiri, has advised youths from Ijaw nation to shelve their plans to shut down the Niger Delta region in the protest designed to compel President Muhammadu Buhari to inaugurate a substantive board for the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC.
Eradiri, who is the Special Assistant on Youth Matters to the Interim Administrator, NDDC, Effiong Akwa, in a statement in Port Harcourt pleaded with the youths to reconsider such move considering the prevailing security situations in the country.
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Ijaw youths from the nine states of the Niger Delta region thronged Warri, Delta State, on Monday to celebrate the 50 years birthday of the renowned Ijaw freedom fighter and former General Officer Commanding of the the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), High Chief Government Ekpemukpolo aka Tompolo.
They warned the Federal Government over possible implosion in Niger Delta should the authorities continue to treat Tompolo and the region with levity.
The Ijaw youths called on the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) to release Tompolo’s seized properties and funds, as well as evacuate his company premises “as a token of the golden jubilee birthday gift to the Niger Delta former warlord.”
Men come and men go. But does history make the man or does the man make history? When this old philosophical conundrum was put across to Nelson Mandela, he responded that history makes the man. Though others may have a different opinion, this was certainly the case of the Okoroba-born scholar, orator, activist, intellectual giant and philanthropist, Barrister Oronto Obebitazibanateiami Douglas, who sojourned planet earth for forty-eight years.
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Oronto’s parents, Pa Obebara Douglas and Mrs Igoni Douglas, probably saw what others did not see and named him Obebitazibanateiami, which in the Ogbia language simply means “
The good of God will get to me”. The Natei in the name took prominence and, indeed, the good of God got to many people and communities through Oronto Natei Douglas, popularly known as OND.
Uzodinma vs Okorocha: South-east governors call for ceasefire
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Recall that governor Uzodinma was said to have ordered Okorocha’s arrest for unsealing Royal Palm Estate.
The South-east governors in a statement signed by their chairman and Governor of Ebonyi State, Chief David Umahi, assured the two political leaders of Imo State- Uzodinma and Okorocha of their preparedness to settle the disputes internally, instead of washing their dirty linen in the public.
The statement, which was forwarded to DAILY POST by the Special Adviser to governor Umahi on Media, Francis Nwaze reads in part: “The South-east Governors’ Forum sues for peace between governor Hope Uzodimma and former governor of Imo State Rochas Okorocha.