PUNCH NEWS Traditional rulers of the Ogoni ethnic nationality in Rivers State have said any planned resumption of oil exploration in the area through the back door will be resisted. The monarchs called on the Nigerian Petroleum Development Company to…
THIS DAY To curb the constant killing of farmers and destruction of farmlands by herdsmen, more southern states have enacted the anti-open grazing bill ahead of the September 1, 2021 target set by the 17 southern governors for the states…
VANGUARD THE South-South Study Group has told the leadership of the senate to reverse with immediate effect most of the decisions on the just passed Petroleum Industry Act amendment Bill, describing it as “provocative” bill. The South-South Study Group made…
THE NATION IPOB infiltrating Rivers: The security situation in Rivers State, which has been on the edge since last year’s #EndSARS protests further degenerated recently with unimaginable attacks on security formations by gunmen identified by security agencies as members of…
THE GUARDIAN The Pan-Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF) and South-South Elders’ Forum have berated Minister of State for Petroleum, Timipre Sylva, for saying that International Oil Companies (IOCs) cannot relocate to the Niger Delta region due to insecurity and violence. But…
VANGUARD NEWS A coalition of Niger Delta agitators, weekend, called on governors of South South to work with Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Senator Godswill Akpabio, to develop Niger Delta region and its people. The group meanwhile, called out governors…
THIS DAY When the federal government team decided to ignore and stayed away from a meeting slated to hold with leaders of the South-south region in Port Harcourt, the Rivers state capital; some of us from the region waited with…
THE SUN Delta State governor, Ifeanyi Okowa, is the Chairman of the South-South Governors Forum. He leads a team of six governors of the nation’s oil-rich south-south states. Also called the BRACED states (Bayelsa, Rivers, Akwa Ibom, Cross River, Edo,…
THE GUARDIAN A group, Movement for the Survival of Izon Ethnic Nationality in the Niger Delta (MOSIEND), has implored lawmakers from the South South geopolitical zone to scuttle passage of the contentious Water Resources Bill 2020. The civil society organisation…
THIS DAY Delta State Governor, Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa, yesterday, charged the leadership of the Ijaw Youth Council (IYC) to partner with governors and stakeholders in the South-South to fast-track transformation of the region, especially in peace and development. Okowa made…
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