November 2024 – Shipping World News Magazine

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Gov Diri raises the alarm on the extreme pollution of Niger Delta, presents Environmental Report To President Tinubu *Says Non Completion of East West Road unacceptable

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Governor Douye Diri of Bayelsa State Tuesday, bemoaned the level of environmental pollution of the state occasioned by the activities of oil companies during a visit to President Bola Tinubu in the Presidential Villa in Abuja. Senator Diri, who led a delegation of Bayelsa political and traditional leaders as well as president of the Ijaw National Congress (INC), Prof. Benjamin Okaba, and president of the Ijaw Youth Council (IYC), Comrade Jonathan Lokpobiri, during the visit, formally presented the report of the Bayelsa State Oil and Environment Commission (BSOEC) titled: “An Environmental Genocide: Counting the Human and Environmental Cost of Oil in Bayelsa, Nigeria,” to President Tinubu. The international commission chaired by a former Archbishop of York, Rt. Rev (Dr.) John Sentamu,...

DOUYE DIRI TO NDDC: CONSULT US BEFORE YOU EMBARK ON PROJECTS

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Governor of Bayelsa State, Senator Douye Diri, has urged management of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) to ensure proper consultation with state governments in the Niger Delta region before executing projects. Senator Diri gave the admonition on Monday when the NDDC Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, Dr. Samuel Ogbuku, and his management team paid him a courtesy visit in Government House, Yenagoa. The governor stressed that the commission, as an intervention agency, should play complementary role in development of states within the region and not compete with governors or states. He advised the commission to ensure that the relevant ministries in the state were consulted for approval before executing projects in order to avoid duplication. He said: ...

Chinyere Uramta: How not to say goodbye. BY ASU BEKS .

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Barely two weeks after i raised the alarm about a plot to humiliate and force the acting Registrar and CEO of the Council for the Registration of Freight Forwarders in Nigeria,Mrs Chinyere Uramta out of office, the hammer finally fell on her last week. A terse press release from the Ministry of Marine and Blue Economy, signed by its Head , Media and PR, Mr Tahir Zakari, named Mr Igwe Kingsley Onyekachi as the substance CEO who will be in charge of the Agency for the next four years in the first instance. Expectedly, the appointment has elicited mixed reactions from Stakeholders . A Group which called itself " Friends of the CRFFN " described the action of the Minister of Marine and Blue Economy, Chief Adegboyega Oyetola as a nullity explaining that it was a flagrant violation of the CR...