by Adedayo Ademuwagun This week, President Goodluck Jonathan declared his intention to contest for a second term, and he explained the things he’s achieved as the president so far. The president has done some good work in his tenure. For instance, he’s created nine new federal universities to deal with the expanding demand for university... Read More

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October 24, 2014

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How the JTF and Bayelsa LGA have found détente to fight oil theft

by Tony Tamuno The Joint Task Force (JTF) in the Niger Delta has announced that it has started cooperating with the Southern Ijaw Local Government Council of Bayelsa to curb oil theft in the area. Speaking in Yenagoa, the JTF’s spokesman, Lt-Col Mustapha Anka said that the cooperation between the JTF and the Southern Ijaw... Read More

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September 23, 2014

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Mama militant, 60-year-old oil thief nabbed in Bayelsa

by Azubuike Azikiwe A 60-year-old crude oil thief, Victoria Sorkibulor, has been arrested by the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, Bayelsa State Command. Sorkibulor, who is popluarly known as ‘Mama Militant’ was arrested at Fish Town, the Southern Ijaw Local Government Area by a special team of the corps. On Monday, 22 September, she... Read More

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September 15, 2014

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Chevron facility occupied by youth demanding compensation for explosion

by Tony Tamuno Youths from Koluama communities in Bayelsa state, have attacked the North Apoi oil platform, operated by Chevron, over non payment of compensation for an explosion which occurred on the platform in January 2012. The explosion caused a fire which burnt for over 50 days before it was finally put out. The unarmed... Read More

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Apoi, Bayelsa, Chevron, Ijaw, Koluama

March 12, 2014

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Bankole Eniola: We are Nigeria’s new majority (Part 2) (Y! FrontPage)

by Bankole Eniola The new majority must ensure that our relationships as Nigerians must never again be defined by our differences or else we will empower those who promote conflict rather than the cooperation that is required to build a developed state. [READ: Bankole Eniola: We are Nigeria’s new majority (Y! FrontPage)] Prelude: Last month... Read More

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March 4, 2014

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Bankole Eniola: We are Nigeria’s new majority (Y! FrontPage)

by Bankole Eniola This is a generation that as embraced the diversity of the many parts because we know that the sum of the parts is not greater than the whole. The new majority will define what next hundred years of our existence as a nation would be. For years I wondered how we can... Read More

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February 10, 2014

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Opinion: Asari Dokubo is a big fat liar

by Bayo Oluwasanmi Only in Nigeria can the type of Dokubo – an anachronistic belligerent with a shrilled tone that’s so mean spirited – with such a limited understanding of people, ideas, politics, and civilized engagement, attract so much publicity and huge following by his loyal Ijaw people. Despicable rhetoric and the phony arrest of... Read More

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February 8, 2014

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Opinion: There is no such thing as a united North

by Abdulmalik Ibrahim Tijani However, unlike many a northern youths, I will not be cajoled and hoodwinked into voting out a corrupt Fedora hat wearing Ijaw fisherman for an equally corrupt ‘aboki’ farmer. I am a strong proponent for the rights of a group of people with a common header to seek a sense of... Read More

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February 7, 2014

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Opinion: Why is Edwin Clark scared of Bola Tinubu?

by Idowu Ajanaku In questioning why Tinubu’s daughter has become the IyaOloja and his wife Oluremi is a Senator, Clark has forgotten the Kennedy and George Bush dynasties of the United States as well as the Gandis of India. All in the queer quest for political relevance and more precisely to get his Ijaw-born brother,... Read More

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February 7, 2014

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Opinion: This is why Jonathan is the most criticized president

by Abba Mahmood Those criticising President Jonathan are not doing so because he is Ijaw or a southerner or a minority or all those primordial things. He is criticised because he has been the president of Nigeria for four years now and has seemingly become incapable of solving any of the problems he has inherited.... Read More

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February 6, 2014

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Opinion: With his incessant calls for war, Asari Dokubo should be arrested

by Ismael Taiwo If Asari can be a drummer of war, the president should remember that there are some people drawn from the West, East and North who can also call for violence as a result of Asari-Dokubo’s vituperation in as much as they are keeping mute for peace to reign. VIOLENCE is inevitable when... Read More

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January 21, 2014

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Opinion: The political options before us in 2015

by Bamidele Ademola-Olateju Jonathan opts out of the 2015 race for fear of upset at the convention, owning to the specter of humiliating losses at the presidential elections, withdrawal of support by key political blocks in the country etc. – The Ijaw people will see this as intimidation and an affront. Militancy will exacerbate and... Read More

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December 18, 2013

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Okey Ndibe: Somebody should shoo Obasanjo off the stage

by Okey Ndibe Somebody ought to shoo Mr. Obasanjo off the stage. He must leave us in peace to focus on a true leader – Madiba Nelson Mandela – a while longer! From the outset, I must offer an apology for the grave moral offense of seeming to bracket the late sage, Nelson Mandela, with... Read More

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November 18, 2013

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Sad news: INC President Sekibo slumps and dies

by Adeola Balogun The death has occurred of the President of the Ijaw National Congress (INC), Senator Tari Sekibo. Senator Sekibo passed on today after he reportedly slumped and died from what appeared to be a heart related ailment. The death of the 70-year-old has left the Ijaw nation in shock and thrown its members... Read More

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October 15, 2013

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Opinion: Prognosis – After the fall of Nigeria

by Fredrick Nwabufor After the country falls, the same problems in entombed Nigeria persist in the emergent nations because new people with pristine consciousness did not emerge, just new countries emerged. It is 2014, and a constellation of Nigerians selectively drawn from variegated social, cultural, political and economic strata converges in a national concourse to... Read More

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August 7, 2013

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Okey Ndibe: Lagos deportations and crisis of citizenship

by Okey Ndibe There’s some irony in the fact that Governor Fashola has done far more than most Igbo governors in recruiting people from other states, including Igbo, to work in his government. But that does not justify his government’s policy of seizing Nigerians in Lagos and deporting them to their states of origin. he... Read More

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May 4, 2013

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APC merger: The Yorubas are committing political suicide – Asari Dokubo

The leader of the Niger Delta Peoples Volunteer Force (NDPVF), Alhaji Mujadid Asari Dokubo, has declared that the emerging merger of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) with Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) and a faction of the All Peoples Grand Alliance (APGA) will spell doom for Yoruba people. According... Read More

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April 29, 2013

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9 oil workers abducted by suspected militants in Bayelsa State

by Rachel Ogbu Nine oil workers of Octopus Clan Nigerian Limited and the Deck Oil Servicing Company along the Ikebiri creek, Southern Ijaw Local Government of Bayelsa State were abducted by suspected militants on Friday. A source from Ikebiri, said he witnessed the gunmen capture the workers. “These gunmen are suspected to be killers of... Read More

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April 23, 2013

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Opinion: Beyond our ethnic and religious differences

by Abd’Raqeeb Salako The unfortunate thing is that the moment we start fighting these ethno-religious battles, we are winning the war for those who are bent on seeing the country crumble. “I write this letter with deep sense of thought and responsibility…” The above is the sentence with which I started some of my formal... Read More

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April 8, 2013

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We did it: MEND claims responsibility for killing of 12 policemen

Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta on Sunday claimed that its fighters killed the 12 policemen whose boat was ambushed in Azuzama, Southern Ijaw, Bayelsa State, on Saturday and that the deaths were to teach the security forces a lesson for scorning its warning. The militant group had last week announced that it... Read More

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January 18, 2013

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Opinion: Let me tell you what you will see if you take a trip to Yenagoa

by Bayo Olopohunda For a first-time visitor, what will forcefully unearth Yenagoa’s palpably unnatural guise are the slums that sandwich the town, hapless, luckless villages lying forlorn in the creeks, abandoned by its greedy leaders who have mismanaged its oil wealth for years. The aircraft lifted off at the Domestic Wing of the Murtala Muhammed... Read More

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October 24, 2012

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Opinion: Tam David-West and the danger of criticism

by Sabella Abidde Criticism, in short, is more than a right; it is an act of patriotism, a higher form of patriotism, I believe, than the familiar rituals of national adulation At age 76, Prof. Tam David-West is still going strong. He is intellectually agile and physically fit. His love for and of country is,... Read More

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August 16, 2012

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It’s official: Gov. Dickson signs Bayelsa anthem, coat of arms into law

by Stanley Azuakola Critics are still criticising; but the Bayelsa State government, under the leadership of Governor Seriake Dickson, is marching ahead. In less than two weeks, the Bayelsa State government has proposed the adoption of a state flag, anthem and coat of arms; the state assembly has given it accelerated hearing and passed it;... Read More

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August 14, 2012

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Ijaw youth demand automatic employment from Chevron, threaten violence

by Akan Ido The uncomfortable unemployment situation in the country has taken a new turn as the Kombot Employment Front, KEF, is handing Chevron Nigeria Limited (CNL) a seven-day ultimatum to give its graduate members some sort of employment concession or get its operations disrupted within their community. According to the Vanguard Newspapers, the KEF... Read More

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Analysis: An Ijaw man has been in Aso Rock for four years, but what has changed in the Niger Delta?

How the JTF and Bayelsa LGA have found détente to fight oil theft

Mama militant, 60-year-old oil thief nabbed in Bayelsa

Chevron facility occupied by youth demanding compensation for explosion

Bankole Eniola: We are Nigeria’s new majority (Part 2) (Y! FrontPage)

Bankole Eniola: We are Nigeria’s new majority (Y! FrontPage)

Opinion: Asari Dokubo is a big fat liar

Opinion: There is no such thing as a united North

Opinion: Why is Edwin Clark scared of Bola Tinubu?

Opinion: This is why Jonathan is the most criticized president

Opinion: With his incessant calls for war, Asari Dokubo should be arrested

Opinion: The political options before us in 2015

Okey Ndibe: Somebody should shoo Obasanjo off the stage

Sad news: INC President Sekibo slumps and dies

Opinion: Prognosis – After the fall of Nigeria

Okey Ndibe: Lagos deportations and crisis of citizenship

APC merger: The Yorubas are committing political suicide – Asari Dokubo

9 oil workers abducted by suspected militants in Bayelsa State

Opinion: Beyond our ethnic and religious differences

We did it: MEND claims responsibility for killing of 12 policemen

Opinion: Let me tell you what you will see if you take a trip to Yenagoa

Opinion: Tam David-West and the danger of criticism

It’s official: Gov. Dickson signs Bayelsa anthem, coat of arms into law

Ijaw youth demand automatic employment from Chevron, threaten violence

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