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By Ignatius Chukwu Seabed activities including mining and exploration affect coastal areas such as the Niger Delta region. Now, the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) is to work with the International Seabed Authority (ISA) to maximise the opportunities believed to exist there. This was the highlight of the meeting visit of the ISA to the NDDC in Port Harcourt Friday, February 17, 2023. The NDDC was said to have seen the meeting as part of its efforts to collaborate with development agencies and organisations. The NDDC Managing Director, Samuel Ogbuku, threw more light during a courtesy visit by a delegation…

Less than 24 hours after it was announced that Gov Nyesom Wike has taken out a suit against the FG seeking more tender life for old naira notes, mass action exploded in Port Harcourt and banks have been burned and attacked. Now, Wike says flouting the Supreme Court order asking old notes to remain legal tender can only breed anarchy. Wike has thus strongly condemned the position of Nigeria’s president, Muhammadu Buhari, on the Naira redesign policy. The governor observed that the president has set a dangerous precedent by flouting the Supreme Court order of interim injunction halting the ban of…

The Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC has agreed to work with the International Seabed Authority, ISA, as part of its efforts to collaborate with development agencies and organisations. The NDDC Managing Director, Dr. Samuel Ogbuku, spoke during a courtesy visit by a delegation led by Nigeria’s High Commissioner to Jamaica, Belize, Haiti and Dominican Republic and Permanent Representative to the International Seabed Authority, Ambassador Dr. Maureen Tamuno, at the Commission’s headquarters in Port Harcourt. Ogbuku said that NDDC was looking for collaborations that would hasten the development of the Niger Delta region, noting: “Our interest is to fast-track development in…

By Kasarachi Azuka, Asaba Political parties and their candidates hardly refuse to sign peace accords. What has remained to be seen is abiding by it. Details; Political parties and their candidates in Delta State have officially agreed to “play by the rules” before, during and after the upcoming general elections billed to hold next Saturday and next across the country. They also sealed the deal to be of good behaviour in the build to the generals elections and beyond. They sealed the deal recently in Asaba, the state capital, during the peace accord organized by the Independent National Electoral Commission…

·Supports PPP initiative By Wisdom Nwachukwu-Ohaegbule The Olu of Warri, Ogiame Atuwatse III, has promised to mobilise state governments and the oil corporations to support the Public, Private Partnership (PPP) initiative of Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) in driving the sustainable development of the region. Ogiame Atuwatse III offered his support when a delegation from the NDDC led by the Managing Director, Dr. Samuel Ogbuku, paid him a courtesy visit in his palace in Warri, Delta State. The NDDC team included the Executive Director, Projects, Mr. Charles Ogunmola and other directors of the Commission. The Monarch commended the efforts of the…

*Accuses President Buhari of undermining the Supreme Court By Wisdom Nwachukwu-Ohaegbule Rivers State governor, Nyesom Wike, has said the G-5 Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governors have crossed the Rubicon, and are no longer disposed to broker any peace with national leadership of the party. Gov Wike explained that contrary to insinuations that the G-5 governors were working at cross-purposes, the group, he maintained, has remained intact and their impact will be felt in the aftermath of the 25th February presidential election. The governor, who made this assertion during a media chat in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital on Thursday, said no G-5 governor has so far attended the…

By Ignatius Chukwu Gov Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has revealed what will happen to his detractors such as the presidential candidate of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP). Wike said in Tai LGA PDP guber rally that his followers would use their voters cards to punish his detractors. His words: “Can they kill me? Will you allow them to kill me? Will you protect me? So, we will defend our votes. You’ll stay there and make sure you’ll vote for our candidates. Then, we will use our Permanent Voter Cards (PVC) to pepper them.” Wike said the PDP in the was preoccupied…

* Asks Buhari: Do you really want to do an election? ·Tinubu rather praises Wike as a man of character and principle By Ignatius Chukwu Bola Ahmed Tinubu and the national leadership of their party have been asked to advised to starve the Rivers APC candidates of funds, saying they would not win a seat. This has raised eyebrows by political observers who wonder if those who contest elections do not need funds to try to win. Details: Wike also asked Tinubu to ask President Muhammadu Buhari if really the federal government wished to do this election. “Do you people…

* But rally ends without hitches · As Tinubu promises end to oil vandalism, restoration of economic prosperity By Ignatius Chukwu The big fish of Rivers APC, former governor, Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, was conspicuously absent the day Bola Ahmed Tinubu stormed the garden city for the presidential rally. Aides however said Amaechi was engrossed in classroom work as a law school student. Details: The much-feared presidential rally in Port Harcourt by the flagbearer of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has successfully come and gone without hitches. The candidate promised to end oil vandalism and restore the good life…

Who is waking sleeping dogs and who is making the dead walk again in Rivers State? Elections are very dangerous and powerful moments. Any man who wants to know his DNA without going to any lab test should put forward his name for election. Rivers State has a troubled but recent past with bones of her heroes not yet interred. Besides, the blood of her martyrs are being searched for in the palms of her heroes. The state’s democratic path since 1999 is dotted with the bones of the likes of Marshal Harry who was assassinated in an Abuja apartment;…