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Jan82024 by Asu BeksNo Comments

GEN NDIOMU TO ASU BEKS: YOU ARE AN IROKO IN MARITIME JOURNALISM

Celebrating the Iroko of Nigeria's maritime media as he turns 70! Sir, my family and I join your numerous admirers and well wishers to rejoice and celebrate with you at this auspicious moment in your life. Attaining the age of 70 years is a remarkable feat which must be celebrated with immense gratitude to God Almighty. We thank God Almighty for your life and also for granting you good health as well as protecting you thus far. There is no doubt that you have contributed immensely to the development of journalism and the maritime industry in particular through your very insightful and well researched reports which have contributed in no small measure in educating and drawing awareness to significant developments in the maritime space. Your interest in ensuring sustainable peace and yo...

IJAW MEDIA FORUM APPEALS TO DONOR AGENCIES TO FUND PAP

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As the Presidential Amnesty Programme, PAP, gets to the most critical stage of re integration of ex agitators into mainstream society, a group, the Ijaw Media Forum, has urged international donor agencies to assist the PAP in achieving its set objectives. President of Ijaw Media Forum, Elder Asu Beks, made this call during a Live Radio interview in Lagos weekend. The Presidential Amnesty Programme , the brain child of Late President Umaru Yaradua, was introduced on September 16, 2009. The PAP was initiated by the late President at the peak of the agitations by Niger Delta youths on account of marginalization and environmental degradation following decades of oil exploration by the Federal Government. The program was aimed at disarming, demobilization and reintegration of ex agitators...

NDIOMU RAISES ALARM: 5TH COLUMNISTS WANT TO DESTROY PAP……

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Interim Administrator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme, Gen Barry Ndiomu has fingered fifth columnists as those behind the campaign of calumny against his person. He has however warned that no amount of intimidation would distract him from putting the PAP on the path of probity and accountability. Ndiomu who spoke after his maiden visit to the National Security Adviser, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu those who have profited from the criminal exploitation of the scheme were bent on having their way, but promised that he will remain focused on his planned transformation agenda for ex agitators. He said he was not unaware that some disgruntled people parading themselves as ex agitators were bent on blackmailing and sponsoring faceless groups and individuals to attack him. Said Ndiomu: " If you...